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.