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

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Speculative Relations
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You know what’s actually inconvenient, Mr. King? Being an Indian who has to constantly deal with the damage caused by pretendians.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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King's books, many of which i have read and enjoyed, are conspicuously absent from Bad Indians Book Club.

In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sees a man with a t-shirt emblazoned with an American flag, sporting the word “Freedom” underneath, in Puerto Rico, and one wonders if the man would like a friendly suggestion…
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Round table of NDN all stars Friday at ASA
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Here here for the haters!
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Mountains eating men
Like skittles
Drowning in tongue
Blood
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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@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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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