Sara Luterman

Disability and Aging Reporter

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Friends, family and colleagues gathered on Saturday to remember Patty Berne, a primary architect of the disability justice movement and co-founder of the performance group Sins Invalid. Berne died on May 29 in Berkeley. They were 58.

Over 250 people attended in person or participated in a livestream of Berne’s celebration of life at the East Bay Church of Religious Science in Oakland, California.

Disability justice was first developed in the early 2000s by Berne and other activists, including Mia Mingus and the late Stacey Park Milbern , who felt excluded by the mainstream disability rights movement as queer people and women of color. They felt frustrated by single-issue advocacy and

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