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Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · last mo.

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I spy windmills

Full day of teaching, regular 5 hours of commuting, now a red eye to Amsterdam yikes. But the moon!

Obviously not a new idea, but I’m realizing that for me the problem with being overcommitted is that it generates a low level sense of disappointment in myself, both for being late to complete things promised, and for being disappointed in my self-disappointment.

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

I’ll be in Toronto for this fab Queer Kinship conference talking about BOOOOOOOOODY

It' not a tour! But I'm doing lots of readings, keynotes, conferences: Minneapolis (virtually), Toronto, Chicago, Amsterdam, Providence, this fall. TODAY virtual radio reading of my secret memoir! Details on Indigiqueer Confidential 👇

Foucault turns to Boas and says: but you cannot forget that the truth is an expression of power, not the divine. To which Boas replies: I have never been to church. But I still believe in the field.

I had a dream last night in which I was sleeping in my office. :/

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

Happy to be in Toronto at the #4S2026 science studies meeting with Assistant Editor Kate Mullen and a lot of great @dukepress.bsky.social books!

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.

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

IndigiQueer Confidential

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

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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...

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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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...

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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. 🫵🏽

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

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.

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

Oh no 😭

Long time profe, first time Professor.

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.

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Shelley Krause 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@butwait.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The transformation of relatives into things, beings into bodies, bodies into labor, and labor into capital is how the sacred is emptied of its cosmic meaning." @pepepierce.bsky.social (@stonybrooku.bsky.social) in Speculative Relations #Indigenous Worlding and Repair bookshop.org/p/books/spec...

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!