Jen Deerinwater

Jen Deerinwater is a bisexual, Two-Spirit, multiply-disabled, citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an award-winning journalist and organizer who covers the myriad of issues their communities face with an intersectional lens. Jen is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism, and a 2019 New Economies Reporting Project and a 2020 Disability Futures fellow. 

Jen is a contributor to Truthout and their work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including Rewire.News, In These Times, and Eater. Jen’s writing is in numerous anthologies, including Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty First Century, We Organize to Change Everything: Fighting for Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice, and Crip Authorship: Disability as Method. Jen is the editor of the anthology Sacred and Subversive: Queer Voices on Faith & Spirituality (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) due out in early 2026.