Joseph M. Pierce
banner
pepepierce.bsky.social
Joseph M. Pierce
@pepepierce.bsky.social
Associate Prof. & Founding Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University. New Book: Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (Duke UP).
Pinned
Today is officially the publication day of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. The book is out, ya'll!!!!

Get it where you get your books, but preferably with @dukepress.bsky.social // Save 30% with coupon code SAVE30
Speculative Relations
www.dukeupress.edu
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
@dukepress.bsky.social has some incredible work on sale!

@pepepierce.bsky.social's Speculative Relations is a recent fave: www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-...

annnnd I also have a book on decolonial possibility in the collapse of current aid relations included: www.dukeupress.edu/the-center-c...
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.
I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
m.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m having a hard time answering a question: what is my favorite part about my heritage? (For Native American Heritage Month). I don’t think of it as heritage so much as who or what I am. My heritage is not Cherokee. I am Cherokee. That means something different. But I’m trying not to be a dick and
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
Fun fact: the art the NY Post used for the illustration of Mamdani is from a 1962 Soviet poster: Glory! to the Soviet People, the Pioneers of Space! by Vadim Volikov.
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’d like to write a book comprised entirely of if/then statements on the subject of Indigenous/ancestral futures. Not a big book but a whole unflinching one.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Let’s go ZoZo!
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is me listening to the sound of rust. On White Wall. © 2025 The Museum of Modern Art
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I’m trying so hard to not revert to my southern over-explaining in emails, and instead embrace the NYC “say what you mean and don’t worry about how people take it” voice. And every email I send feels like a demand, but I’m getting there. Ugh.
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
m.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
“It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way.” @biidaasamose.bsky.social talks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times
“It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
truthout.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I can’t believe it’s been two months since Speculative Relations came out.
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Red light red alight
red lightning red lingering red longing
red lamp red leaf red lime red love red rum
red lynx
red lavender red lambaster
red alabaster
red right red fright red sight red might red nope red cope red fox Red Sox red pope red slope red scare red tear red reason red season
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If the alighting gaze of wandering men is a prelude to civilization, then the unseen is a repository of desire.
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I just learned of the passing of Debra Castillo, which happened a couple weeks ago. a tremendous loss for Latinx studies, theater, and community pedagogy. as.cornell.edu/news/remembe...
Remembering Prof. Debra Castillo, champion of Latinx students, community
Professor Debra Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss presidential fellow and Emerson Hinchliff professor of Hispanic Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, died Oct. 5 at the age of 72.
as.cornell.edu
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Teaching today about Jessica Hernandez’s book Fresh Banana Leaves, and I said: science is the organization of information. It is not natural or pre-ordained, but the way a particular culture organizes how it experiences the world. And I’m not mad at that definition.
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
In “Indigenous Archives,” Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora forge Indigenous belonging in the face of displacement from their ancestral homelands. Read the intro for free now, and pre-order the book for 50% off with coupon FALL25: buff.ly/7JwP8jl
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I was invited to write about the NDN VR takeover of the Met but I don’t understand or care about VR. I care about R.
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
Holy shit, yo. Get yer books.
Our Fall Sale begins today! Save 50% on books & journal issues now through November 9 with coupon code FALL25. buff.ly/Bk390cu
October 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
So happy to have shared water stories with @biidaasamose.bsky.social and Candice Hopkins. Water becomings and Indigenous futures!
October 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
Never a bad time to re-up this fabulous website.
we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by Joseph M. Pierce
★ Memoirist and novelist Cristina Rivera Garza weaves labor history, environmental catastrophe, and stories of her family into a vivid tapestry. It’s not to be missed. buff.ly/fJm1SkH
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I was holding time in my hand, only the suggestion of a shape, not even a full fist, soft knuckles, dripping, spilling time, and yet, I could not forget the morning.
October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM