Jen Deerinwater

Journalist, Non-Fiction Creative Writer, Memoirist, & Photographer

Jen, Jen Deerinwater

Washington, D.C.

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Jen, a Two-Spirit, Cherokee person with warm light skin, shoulder-length dark hair, narrow square glasses, and defined brows, smiles at the camera. Jen wears lipstick, colorful beaded earrings, and a bright top.

Jen Deerinwater is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, bisexual, Two Spirit, multiply-disabled journalist, and organizer. With an intersectional lens, Jen covers the issues Native communities face. Jen Deerinwater’s journalism and writing articulate a broad range of issues including Indigenous rights, reproductive justice, land justice, and disability accessibility in organizing. Jen Deerinwater is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism, a multimedia platform by and for Indigenous perspectives and creativity, a contributor at Truthout and a New Economies Reporting Project fellow. Jen Deerinwater’s work can be found in publications such as Bitch, Rewire.News, and In These Times, as well as in two recently published anthologies, Two-Spirits Belong Here and Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.

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