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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 23h

I found out that my great grandfather, William, applied to Chilocco Indian School, was admitted, attended, but deserted after one week. Seven days in September 1926. A hundred years ago.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

The Trump administration's illegal kidnapping and detention of Mahmoud Khalil will perhaps be seen as one of the more pivotal moments which accelerated the change in elite, and especially elite youth opinion on Palestine.

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A Quietly Shattering Memoir by a Man Detained by ICE for His Beliefs (Gift Article)

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and former Columbia graduate student, offers an account of his ordeal and explains why his work continues.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I write Indigiqueer Confidential on Ghost: short essays on Native art, Indigiqueer secrets, museums, books, and the occasional NDN rage. indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io

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IndigiQueer Confidential

Writing on art, queer thought, museums, and Indigenous politics by Joseph M. Pierce. Friends, comrades, lovers unite!

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I recorded an audio for MoMA about TC Cannon’s Two Guns Arikara, a painting that just keeps asking me more questions. Like what is he thinking? What is a purple pompadour? What is NDN modernism? www.moma.org/audio/playli...

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T.C. Cannon. Two Guns Arikara. 1973/1977 | MoMA

Audio from 1950–1980: Works from the Collection. Explore Floor 4 with audio commentaries from artists and curators.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very grateful to see that Speculative Relations received an honorable mention for the ASA John Hope Franklin Prize this year.💛 Congratulations to Kimberly Juanita Brown for the brilliant Black Elegies, which received the award, and to fellow honorable mention David Serlin. theasa.net/wp-content/u...

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Got myself to inbox 0 but 4 new ones came in the meantime. Inbox 4 is the new 0.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok party is fine but i cant figure out why “party in my house” is so awkward rhythmically. The “my” is so long and doesn’t fit with the rest of the line. Or am i wrong?

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NDN thought: be a good relative, but don’t take no shit either.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I rushed out of my office, sped across campus, and burst into class 10 minutes late, only to discover…I was 50 minutes early. Not my class.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don’t even know who Macklemore is but I’m interested in how the vocabulary of “the political” travels across genres of culture. Some spaces are assumed to be apolitical while others are not. And then a sudden piercing of the illusion.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I realize that I point at people when I speak sometimes. Like 👉🏼 hey I thought of something! But I suspect sometimes people take it as accusatory. And it’s not. 🫵🏽

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After teaching Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, I keep thinking about how his work links contemporary materials with ancestral motifs that are communal. He is the one drawing, but the motifs emerge through listening and dreaming, which always happen in community. ❤️ Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe Fruits (Wapu) 2021 MoMA

A vertical sheet of vivid yellow paper bearing seven red, seed-like forms, arranged in three rows. Each form is made from nested, hand-drawn red outlines that create a rhythmic pattern across the yellow field.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ok random art thought: the thing I don’t like about Duchamp is that he takes ordinary things and imbues them with power by changing their context, their place. And that’s what a lot of Indigenous art does. And yet, it isn’t thought of as art, but craft. NDNs are the real modernists lol.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy one year anniversary (belated) to Speculative Relations, a book that is big and yellow and has color pictures! And smells like a book! And sold more than 1,000 copies, which is a lot for university press books! Huzaaaaaaaaa

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Long time profe, first time Professor.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On the TGV from Paris to Avignon and the ladies behind us have to be from Long Island, playing gin rummy, and talking about their translation apps.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Mark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hey - those of you without books coming out or not in publishing might not know, but it’s fall catalog season and new books are going to be dropping regularly! If you care about books, authors, literacy, the future of humanity… if you see a new book looking cool, help spread the word!

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m so honored and humbled to share that ✨Speculative Relations✨ was given the Best Subsequent Book Award by NAISA this year, and to be in the company of Luis Cárcamo Huechante (in person) and Jodi Byrd (from afar). @dukepress.bsky.social

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Congratulations to Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social, whose "Speculative Relations" won the 2026 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, and to Jodi A. Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social and Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante whose books received honorable mention! #NAISA

Cover of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph Pierce. The background is bright yellow with an artwork by Jeffy Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, at its center. Gibson's piece is a colorful, geometric collage composed of repeating, partially obscured portraits of an Indigenous American man. The composition also includes bright chevron patterns, a beaded, reversed American flag, and a red button that reads "Question Reality."

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If you’re coming to Temuco for NAISA don’t forget your power /plug adapter. Or if you do, you can get one in a bodega or hardware store.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Argentina has no flow. Spain ever swarming.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Watching the game in my hotel in Santiago. Taxista said he was supporting Spain.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Heading wayyyyyyyy south for NAISA.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I've seen a lot of discourse online about how Argentina is a racist country, or not, a lot of Argentine people defending themselves, and a lot of that defense hinges on not wanting outsiders to define what Argentine racism is, a thread.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m really enjoying how people can’t decide if Argentina is a racist country or not. The straw man arguments. The nationalism. The “it’s not our problem” of it all.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I washed the windows today. Honey do 👍🏽

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve never been more of a rule follower and ever on the verge of becoming a Karen than when people put backpacks in the overhead storage on a plane. I must chill. Do not speak. Resist the urge Joseph!

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Beautiful books spotted today at Labyrinth Books, Princeton @dukepress.bsky.social

Book covers: on left, black and blue, starry galaxy with a rust-colored nebula-Title, Breaking the World Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction. By Justin L. Mann

On right, a blue book with a black abstract shape centered that features title and contributors, Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: PHOEBE BOSWELL; SAIDIYA HARTMAN; JANAÍNA OLIVEIRA
JOSEPH M. PIERCE; CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, With an Introduction by
CHRISTINA SHARPE

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In the 2010s, I actually used to play in the Austin men’s soccer league against Ismail Elfath, the referee of the Brazil v Norway game, and he was an elbow-throwing, technically unremarkable player. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Ooooooooooooooopppppppppppopossssssssss

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Now awaiting the Owen Hargreaves + Martha Stewart collab.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New post on the Ghost! indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/big-queer-nd...

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Dear @fifaworldcup-x.bsky.social I have now seen fans from Uruguay, Argentina, and Morocco wearing Native American war bonnets inside of stadiums. If you can ban “political statements,” surely you can prevent sacred Native American symbols being appropriated by people at the World Cup.

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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I want to write sentences that feel like the scavenged remnants of irate gods.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I am taking my time with Speculative Relations and paragraphs like this are why, because each time I reread it there is more to understand of what @pepepierce.bsky.social is saying about absence and presence "The invention of the Indian depends on the absence of the real Indigenous person"

I open with this portrait of Geronimo to suggest that the realism that Burbank wanted to portray was an illusion. This realness must be "hunted," in Burbank's infelicitous recognition of the desire to capture a likeness that was only ever real from the vantage point of a white man with a gun, can-vas, or camera. As Gerald Vizenor puts it, "the indian is the simulation of ethnographic portraiture." Vizenor's argument, which I unpack further below, is that the indian is not real, but a pose, an effect of the colonial imaginary. The search for Indian realness—what Burbank calls the "real" Americans—is a quintessentially colonial enterprise. This search depends on colonial mythologies that envelop actual, real, Indigenous presence in an ongoing negation of the fact that Indigenous representation is only possible through a process of colonial invention. The invention of the Indian depends on the absence of the real Indigenous person. This absence is achieved through the capture of a body that becomes Indian when wrapped in red skin, or perhaps a red blanket.

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