Joseph M. Pierce
@pepepierce.bsky.social
Professor & Founding Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University. “An opinionated bastard” —Kay Walkingstick
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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
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
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.
Watching the game in my hotel in Santiago. Taxista said he was supporting Spain.
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.
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.
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!
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:
Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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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. 🤷🏽♀️
My latest Reading Notes piece on encountering James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes. www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-note...
Encountering James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen in Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes — Lisa Diedrich
This Reading Notes piece begins with an encounter with an image of a book in another book that has been for me a prompt to more reading. The image of the book is James Baldwin’s The Evidence of ...
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Some thoughts on Plains Indian War Bonnets seen on fans at the World Cup. indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/appropriatio...
Appropriation at the World Cup
Like millions of people around the globe, I've been watching the World Cup. I haven't watched every game, but over these past couple weeks, I've seen flashes across the screen of something I didn't ex...
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Now awaiting the Owen Hargreaves + Martha Stewart collab.
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.
I want to write sentences that feel like the scavenged remnants of irate gods.
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"
