Bio
Jen Deerinwater is an award-winning journalist and organizer who covers the myriad of issues hir communities face with an intersectional lens. Jen is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism, a Disability Futures fellow and a contributor to Truthout. Hir work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including the anthology Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty First Century. Jen is hard at work on two books, Sacred and Subversive: Queer Perspectives on the Future of Religious and Spiritual Communities and Web of Extraction: The Appalachian Fracking Boom and its assault on life.