Indigenous Cinematic Resistance in the Amazon
Please join the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), Ficamazonía, and Crushing Colonialism in Washington, D.C, for an important and timely event featuring Indigenous leaders whose homelands, lives and resources are being harmed by colonial policies in Brazil.
The Kuikuros from the Xingu Indigenous Reserve of Mao Grosso state are on the frontlines of the movement to defend Indigenous territories of the Amazon. During the disastrous administration of former president Jair Bolsonaro, they led millions of Indigenous persons to Brasilia to defend life and the natural environment.
At the event on Saturday, February 25, 2023, we will hear from the Kuikuro Nation’s Paramount Chief Afukaka Kuikuro about the challenges his peoples are facing in the Amazon. Kalutata Kuikuro, President of AIKAX will screen clips of films he’s created and talk about the activism his peoples are leading to preserve their lives and territories.
The panel will be moderated by Jen Deerinwater, a bisexual, Two Spirit, multiply-disabled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma who is an award-winning journalist and organizer. Deerinater is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism.
Colombian filmmaker and producer Linithd Apararicio Blackburn, the director of the Ficamazonía Fundación (FICAMAZONÍA), will discuss her organization's work. CEO and Founder of Shinning Red Films and Emmy-Nominated Director Graham Townsley will provide commentary.Introductory remarks by Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli, Director for the Andes at the Washington Office on Latin America.Indigenous Cinematic Resistance in the Amazon
Saturday, February 25, 2023
5pm-7pm
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street, Washington, DC
To attend, please RSVP to Kelsey Kotts, kkotts@wola.org
This event is supported by the Latin America Working Group (LAWG), Washington Brazil Office (WBO) and Colombia Acuerdo de Paz NGO. Disability and language accessibility information:
Busboys and poets is stair free and has disability accessible and gender neutral bathrooms. Language translation will be available as well as subtitles for films shown.Please contact CrushingColonialism@gmail.com with any access needs you may have.
Jen Deerinwater at The Berkeley Forum
Jen Deerinwater at the Berkeley Forum
Date: Monday, April 18,2022
Time: 6:00 P.M. PST
Location: Facebook Live https://fb.me/e/376NOUg9z
Speaker Bio:
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 hir communities face with an intersectional lens. Jen is the founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism and a 2019 New Economies Reporting Project and 2020 Disability Futures fellow.
Jen is a contributor at Truthout and hir work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including Rewire. News, In These Times, and Bitch Media. Jen’s writing also appears in Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty First Century and the forthcoming Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements and Crip Authorship: Disability as Method. Jen is the co-editor of the anthology Sacred and Subversive and is currently hard at work on hir own book.
Event Description:
How can the stories of Indigenous people be heard and uplifted to overcome barriers constructed by colonialism? Crushing Colonialism works towards increasing such representation through Indigenous storytelling. Join us at the Berkeley Forum with Jen Deerinwater, the founder and executive director of Crushing Colonialism, as she shares hir perspective on how intersectionality informs hir work and activism.
EVENT ACCESSIBILITY: If you require accessibility accommodations for this event, please contact the Berkeley Forum at info@forum.berkeley.edu 7-10 days in advance of the date with your specific need.
Duke Disability Access Keynote: Accompliceship Now! Disability & Indigeneity on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
The Duke Disability Alliance at Duke University hosts a keynote event for Disability Pride Week featuring guest speaker Jen Deerinwater called: Accompliceship Now! Disability & Indigeneity on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis. With Moderator Marina Tsaplina.
The upcoming webinar will take place on April 1st at 5pm EST via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/jendeerinwater.
To register for the webinar click here.
For more information and to stay updated on event details, follow Duke Disability Alliance on Instagram here.
SFRJ & CCR Program: Let's Talk About Sustainability Advocacy - Virual Conversation
Let's Talk About Sustainability Advocacy
No registration required. Join the event here.
Presenters
• Jen Deerinwater, journalist and advocate
• Keymah Durden, Rid-All Green Partnership Cleveland
• Michelle Davis, professor and advocate
SFRJ’s Sustainability committee and the Collegewide Common Reading program invite you to a virtual conversation with Jen Deerinwater, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a bisexual, two-spirit, multiply disabled journalist, speaker and organizer who will discuss effective advocacy strategies, including how she works to address the issues hir communities face using an intersectional lens.
Dial-In Information
Join from the meeting link
https://tri-c.webex.com/tri-c/j.php?MTID=md3715d2e54104c3573ee33831af6260a
Join by meeting number
Meeting number: 2308 832 6128
Meeting password: HFmMUMAp767
Health Justice Commons online course: The Intersections of Disability and Climate Justice
HJC’s Spring online political education course, Understanding and Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex, Part 2 - Climate Justice Edition, begins March 3rd, 2022! It is a 6-session series on consecutive Thursdays at 5 pm - 7 pm PST/ 8 pm - 10 pm EST. Featuring special guest presenter Jen Deerinwater.
This course focuses on the intersections of ableism, medical and environmental racism and their entanglements with the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). You do not have to have taken Part 1 to enroll in and benefit from Part 2, we’ll provide resources and review to catch you up!
WHEN: Starts Thursday March 3rd and runs through April 7th (Six Consecutive Thursdays). The time is the same on each Thursday session: 5p - 7p PST/ 7p - 9p CST/ 8p - 10p EST
WHERE: Online via Zoom. Attend from anywhere!
COST: $185 - $285, work exchanges and scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. If you are able, please consider using the 'cover fees option' for your enrollment contribution, as FlipCause detracts credit card fees (like all online payment platforms). We are a small, disabled/crip, and member-run organization, so whatever you can give supports the participation of others with less access to funds. Thank you!!!
ACCESS INFO: All sessions will provide ASL, English to Spanish interpretation, and live closed captioning. All sessions will be recorded (with participant permission) for the use of participants.
Work Exchanges/ Scholarships: Work exchanges and partial to full scholarships are available based on participant needs. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. To request a work exchange or partial scholarship, please email us at: HJCommonscontactus@gmail.com. Please put: ‘Course Work Exchange or Scholarship’ in the subject line.
Info on Facilitators: This course will be co-facilitated by Mordecai Cohen Ettinger and Rise.
More course information:
You do not have to have taken Part 1 to enroll in and benefit from Part 2, we’ll provide resources and review to catch you up! The course is online via ZOOM with live closed captions and all sessions are recorded for participant use.
This course focuses on the intersections of ableism, medical racism, environmental racism and classism and their entanglements with the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
All Health Justice Commons courses employ 3 primary critical lenses: people’s science, intersectional social justice, and an abolitionist mindset to examine and understand the MIC historically and currently. This course explores how the MIC, as a primary source of racialized and gendered medical ableism and violence, has been complicit with, profited from, and has played a significant role in causing climate crisis. It will also explore the many ways these patterns have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic and 4 years of Trump’s fascism, costing millions of lives. We’ll look at the latest research revealing climate crisis and pollution’s causative roles in the rise of multiple diseases, and learn in-depth how many institutions and industries within the MIC profit from the very diseases they cause.
Topics covered:
— The role of medical ableism, racialized ableism, environmental racism and classism in intensifying the lethal impacts and lengthening the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
— Overview of the settler-colonalist roots of the MIC and the ongoing dynamics of intersectional oppression and racialized/ gendered medical ableism.
— The toxicity, medical ableism and violence of prisons and other institutions of confinement connected to the MIC.
— Environmental Racism: From Louisiana’s Cancer Ally, to Bhopal, to Flint, and Gaza. Exploring environmental toxicology and the neurobiology of intergenerational harm.
— Contested Bodies/ Contested Illnesses: What they reveal about the MIC’s complicity with corporate polluters, climate crisis and disease causation.
— Contested toxins: the hidden history of big pharma and its entanglement with big agro, the global war machine, eugenics and imperialism.
— Ways forward to decolonize healthcare. Tools for disrupting and transforming the MIC, and incubating alternatives that you can practice in your own life, work, and communities.
Duke Disability Pride Keynote: Accompliceship Now! Disability & Indigeneity on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
The Duke Disability Alliance at Duke University hosts a keynote event for Disability Pride Week featuring guest speaker Jen Deerinwater called: Accompliceship Now! Disability & Indigeneity on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis. With Moderator Marina Tsaplina.
The upcoming webinar will take place on April 1st at 5pm EST via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/jendeerinwater.
To register for the webinar click here.
For more information and to stay updated on event details, follow Duke Disability Alliance on Instagram here.
NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Native Studies Forum : INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-Making
Virtual Launch Party: Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 4 – INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Native Studies Forum: A virtual launch party to celebrate a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 4 INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-Making
This special issue considers reciprocity as a question, practice, and aspiration. What is possible when we Indigenize disability studies (DST) and when we fully embed disability studies in Native American Indigenous studies (NAIS)? The contributors come from wide-ranging locations inside and outside of academic worlds, across Turtle Island and beyond. The twenty-four pieces include personal narratives, photo essays, museum reviews, creative reflections, collaborative research, and community-based history. This issue was created in the hopes of sparking more coalitional, cross-disciplinary, and broad public collective learning.
Join for a Roundtable with editors and authors: Susan Burch Professor and director, American Studies, Middlebury College; Ella Callow (Cherokee descent) Director, Disability Access & Compliance, University of California, Berkeley; Juliet Larkin-Gilmore Oscar Handlin Fellow, ACLS; Jen Deerinwater (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Executive Director, Crushing Colonialism Moderator: Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma) NYU, History, Native Studies Forum, Co-sponsors: NYU Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; Proclaiming Disability Arts
This is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations, please indicate on your RSVP form.
Thursday, March 31. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Organising for a World on Fire-Edinburgh Radical Bookfair
Be mindful of the time difference! This panel will be held at 7:30 GMT. This is five hours ahead of EST (New York) time zone.
Sign up for in-person and virtual tickets at this link.
The urgency of the intersecting crises tearing through our world shapes how we act in response.
The idea that 'time is running out' necessarily comes to inform the kind of collective action we take, especially with regards to the climate crisis. It also informs our blind spots.
What do we still have time to do?
What can we never afford to neglect in our calls for urgent action? In this event, held as COP26 draws to a close in Glasgow, we'll explore the difficult challenges of organising for climate justice in the shadow of COVID-19, as the climate crisis escalates.
How do we act with the urgency required, and the thoroughness the problem demands? What kind of tactics and forms of organising are needed? How do we dismantle fossil capitalism, not with more capitalism, but in movements of genuine solidarity across the world? What can different movements learn from each other?
As part of this panel, we'll hear from climate activist and scholar Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and White Skin, Black Fuel, as well as Jen Deerinwater founder of Crushing Colonialism and Two-Spirit citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Check out the second part of this far-reaching discussion in Organising for a Planet on Fire 2!
Futures Worth Fighting For-Edinburgh Radical Bookfair
Be mindful of the time difference! This panel will be held at 5:30 GMT. This is five hours ahead of EST (New York) time zone.
Sign up for in-person and virtual tickets at this link.
It's about time we challenged accepted wisdom & the status quo, and made space to really imagine a world beyond capitalism, patriarchy & white supremacy.
What does a just world look like to you? What is the future of work and the workplace? How do we ensure future generations have a planet worth living on? What would queer liberation actually entail, or a world without borders or feminist utopia?
To build fairer, thriving, sustainable societies, we must first imagine them - we must dare to dream beyond the visions of our forebears, or our oppressors.
Our opening panel will explore what a future worth fighting for might look like - and what that fight might involve. Hope and social justice are not pipe dreams, but urgent attainable goals, when we dream together and fight together we make whole new worlds possible.
This opening event includes journalist and author of Make Bosses Pay Eve Livingston, journalist Jen Deerinwater founder of Crushing Colonialism and Two-Spirit citizen of the Cherokee Nation, alongside filmmaker Hassan Akkad, author of Hope Not Fear.
The event is hosted by climate activist Josephine Becker, one half of the brilliant Yikes Podcast
Climate for All: Disability Rights & the Environment
Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world. As activists and communities around the world work to address the climate crisis, its intersection with disability rights and policies is a vital consideration. This engaging conversation brings together published panelists Jen Deerinwater, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Syrus Marcus Ware and Petra Kuppers to discuss the overlap between climate activism and improving inequities in disability worldmaking.
Learn more about the event and how to join us on the TIFA site.
ASL interpreters and captioning/CART (live transcription) will be provided. For questions regarding accessibility, please contact support@festivalofauthors.ca or call 416-973-4760. This event is presented in partnership with the CoMotion Festival.
Proudly supported by Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett, and Andrew and Valerie Pringle
Celebrate Bisexuality Day
Did you know that Bisexual+ people make up the majority of the 2LGBTQIA+ community? Join myself and the Virginia Tech LGBTQ+ Resource Center at 6pm EST on September 23rd for Celebrate Bisexuality Day.
Scan the QR code in the image or watch the event at this link.
First officially observed in 1999 at the International Lesbian and Gay Association Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Celebrate Bisexuality Day is the brainchild of three bisexual rights activists: Wendy Curry of Maine, Michael Page of Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur of Texas. Wilbur said:
Ever since the Stonewall rebellion, the gay and lesbian community has grown in strength and visibility. The bisexual community also has grown in strength but in many ways we are still invisible. I too have been conditioned by society to automatically label a couple walking hand in hand as either straight or gay, depending upon the perceived gender of each person.
This celebration of bisexuality in particular, as opposed to general LGBT events, was conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of bisexual people by some in both the straight and greater LGBT communities.
Creating More Includive and Accessible Space in Indigenous Communities: A Conversation with Jen Deerinwater
Did you know that Native people have the highest rates per capita of disabilities in the so-called US? As both Native and Deaf, disabled, and chronically ill people we are often excluded and discriminated against in both Native and non-Native spaces. Join me and Native American Lifelines on this Wednesday, September 15th at 6pm EST for a talk on how to make Native spaces inclusive and accessible for our disabled relatives.
Event will be live-streamed on Facebook or you can register to watch on Zoom where you can participate in a Q&A.
A MORE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY–THE POWER AND PRESENCE OF INDIGENOUS DISABLED STORIES
The digital divide – the gap between those who do and do not have access to high-speed internet service, cell phones and computer technology – is long-standing and pronounced in Native and Indigenous communities, making it difficult for Native artists without access to share their work with the outside world.
Join two-spirit, disabled, Native artists Jen Deerinwater, Marcy Angeles, and Tony Enos in a conversation moderated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado exploring the challenges faced by Native artists and communities with a lack of digital access. This session will also premier an original song, Others Like Me, written, recorded, and produced by the artists in preparation for this convening.
Featuring Marcy Angeles, Jen Deerinwater, and Tony Enos in a conversation moderated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Program Officer, CFE, Ford Foundation
Welcoming remarks from Emil Kang, Program Director, Arts & Culture, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This event is part of the Disability Futures virtual convening July 19th-20th.
Disability in America
Elevating the voices of the historically marginalized, like those who identify as disabled, can have the power to shift stereotypes and build a more inclusive future. This program puts a spotlight on the power of representation in storytelling with leaders in the field who are driving change and looks at the state of disability activism 30 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act. Join Washington Post senior writer Frances Stead Sellers on Tuesday, July 13 at 2:30pm to meet the trailblazers paving the way forward.
Stream here: wapo.st/disabilityinamerica
Speakers include,
Jen Deerinwater, JOURNALIST AND FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CRUSHING COLONIALISM
Andraea Lavant, IMPACT PRODUCER, AND PRESIDENT, LAVANT CONSULTING
Reyma McCoy McDeid, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING
Alice Wong, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE DISABILITY VISIBILITY PROJECT®
Black Arts Admin B*tch Episode 4
Join Quanice Floyd and Jen Deerinwater as they highlight artists and arts leaders of color in the performing and visual arts world, and interrogate systemic and institutional issues of equity in the arts from a decolonizing framework. We don't have time for any more games.
Available on all podcast platforms now.
Disability Justice Transformations: Overlaps & Tensions with Climate Justice
Disability Justice Transformations: Overlaps and Tensions with Climate Justice, co-presented by Sins Invalid and the Paul K. Longmore Institute. The discussion will be moderated by Patty Berne with guests Jen Deerinwater, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger, and Maria Palacios.
This event will be presented in English with ASL and Spanish translation and English/Spanish live captioning available on May 27th at 5pm PST/8pm EST.
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Transformaciones de la justicia para las personas con discapacidad: superposiciones y tensiones con la justicia climática, presentada por The Paul K. Longmore Institute y Sins Invalid. La discusión será moderada por Patty Berne con invitades Jen Deerinwater, Mordecai Cohen Ettinger, y Maria Palacios.
Este evento será presentado en inglés con lenguaje de señas americano y interpretación en español, y subtítulos inglés/español.
Redefining Safety: A Vision for the Future of Transportation
Please join us on Tuesday, April 20 at 11amPT/2pmET for the third and final webinar in our Removing Enforcement from Transportation Safety Programs series--Redefining Safety: A Vision for the Future of Transportation. Our wonderful panelists will lead us through a discussion where we redefine safety in transportation and co-create a future that centers Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, disabled, LGBTQI, youth, elderly and other multi-marginalized folks through community-based and equitable solutions.
Speakers:
DaaminX, Newark Community Street Team
Jen Deerinwater, Crushing Colonialism
Justice Shorter, National Disability Rights Network
Christopher Scott, Open Society Foundations
Hester Serebrin, Transportation Choices Coalition
Indigeneity and Disability: Futures of Personhood, Care and Consent
What dreams for the world whisper through the cracks of this world that is breaking? This panel brings together the breadth and depth of five influential scholars, artists, cultural/political organizers and researchers to delve into how the embodied realities and analytics of both indigeneity and disability open political, cultural, medical and spiritual imaginaries about body, land, practices of care and consent. With Ella Callow, Jen Deerinwater, Juliet McMullin, AM Kanngieser, and Petra Kuppers, facilitated by Marina Tsaplina.