{"id":22007,"date":"2012-10-08T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=22007"},"modified":"2012-10-08T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:16:48","slug":"speaking-for-all-bodies-not-just-the-perfect-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/10\/speaking-for-all-bodies-not-just-the-perfect-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking for All Bodies (Not Just the \u201cPerfect\u201d Ones)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In \u201cSins Invalid,\u201d performance artists shatter stereotypes around sex and disabilities to reclaim the body&#8217;s redemptive power. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this culture, there\u2019s an aura of sin around our attitudes toward the body. Sex is dirty and disabilities are frightening. So who better to shatter stereotypes and show the redemptive power of reclaiming our bodies than a group of disabled artists who explore disability, sexuality, and social justice through edgy performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to help reshape the political imagination of how the body can be experienced as beautiful regardless of whether or not it\u2019s normative,\u201d says Patty Berne, co-founder and director of \u201cSins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility.\u201d Through sexually evocative poetry, spoken word, music, drama, and dance, \u201cSins\u201d challenges the dominant notion of what it is to be able-bodied, as well as the identity politics that label people \u201cdisabled,\u201d \u201cperson of color,\u201d \u201cqueer,\u201d or \u201ctrans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antoine Hunter, who performs a dance about his struggles as a deaf man, says \u201cSins\u201d has been transformative for artists and audiences alike. \u201cHearing people have come up to me after the performance and said it helped them understand their deaf friends. Deaf people have said it helped bring their hearing friends closer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing like \u2018Sins,\u2019\u201d says performer Maria R. Palacios, who says that taking part in the performance has changed her life. \u201cIt helps us expand our wings and rise above any obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinsinvalid.org\" >Sins Invalid<\/a> the film premieres in October.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad<\/em><\/strong>_____________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Sven Eberlein wrote this article for It&#8217;s Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Sven is a freelance writer living in San Francisco, with roots in Germany. He blogs at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.svenworld.com\/\" >svenworld.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/its-your-body\/sins-of-the-flesh?utm_source=wkly20121005&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mrEberlein\" >Go to Original \u2013 yesmagazine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cSins Invalid,\u201d performance artists shatter stereotypes around sex and disabilities to reclaim the body&#8217;s redemptive power. In this culture, there\u2019s an aura of sin around our attitudes toward the body. Sex is dirty and disabilities are frightening. So who better to shatter stereotypes and show the redemptive power of reclaiming our bodies than a group of disabled artists who explore disability, sexuality, and social justice through edgy performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}