Dear Kin is a storytelling project that highlights individuals from the Alaska Native Two-Spirit and LGBTQI+ community through video and portraiture. Each person shares their personal experiences of being who they are in a short video format, where they reflect on who and what has informed them, and where they draw their strength from. Dear Kin is a letter to past, present, and future Indigenous queer relatives.

Dear Kin was made possible by Native Movement. Native Movement is a non-profit organization formed in 2003 out of Alaska, with a vision of grassroots-led movements and healthy Indigenous nations building strong, healing, and sustainable communities for all and Mother Earth. Our work focuses on ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ rights, the rights of Mother Earth, dismantling patriarchy, and ultimately shaping healthy and sustainable communities for ALL.

Jenny Irene Miller, Inupiaq, is originally from Nome, Alaska. Jenny employs photography, video, and sound in her art practice. Her practice is grounded in storytelling and her identity, from Indigeneity to queerness, as well as familial and community relations. Jenny is informed and inspired by kinship. 

Jenny holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, as well as a BFA in Photomedia and a BA in American Indian Studies from the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is currently on view at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Canada and will open in a group exhibition in December at the Turchin Arts Center in Boone, North Carolina.

Pronouns: she/her, they/them