Joseph M. Pierce

Motherfucker

Im so glad its with you!

Yeahhhhhssssss

I’ve been in Austin for a couple days, a place where I lived from 2005-2013, and let me tell you, there is not an ounce of weird left here. Not a single one.

Poster announcing two book talks in Austin on February 26

Im very much looking forward to A) supporting my friends in Austin resist the tyrannical legislature, and B) BQ.

Big big big so big! Biiiiiiig

The UT System's New 'Controversial Topics' Policy Is About Policing Knowledge When politically appointed regents and administrators determine which topics are “germane,” academic freedom quietly shifts into political compliance.

'In the UT system nearly 46% of the population is Latino. And where Latino students are the majority in public schools, calling the histories, literatures, and political realities of these communities “controversial” is not about neutrality. It is about deciding whose knowledge is expendable.'

Read this award-winning GLQ essay by the brilliant Ava Kim and rethink ideas of development. Freely available until May17th. #queertheory #transstudies #XXY #intersex

View of a snow covered street with cars also covered in snow

Morning sunshines

Coming up tomorrow Monday night!!Snowed in? Stay home and listen up!! It’s not too late to register. Link below…

News UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out Lisa Moore defends the value of ethnic and gender studies Avatar photo by Brant Bingamon February 19, 2026

DOGE comes to higher ed: Proud of my friend @lisalmoore.bsky.social, of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin, who does not pull her punches, on demoting WGS and other "woke" departments. www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head... 1/

Pisces Slander Simply Increases Our Power

Ordinary Notes. Paperback cover. Condensation.

Paperback coming soon. Canada, May 2026

Im with you! 1880 is my line in the sand, with a strong preference for 1780.

The dreaded moment has arrived: adopt your textbooks for NEXT semester. Girl, I have no idea.

I saw books by Joseph Pierce, "Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair", and

Jodi A. Byrd, "Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession"

at opposite ends of the ICA gift shop for this Indigenous Futures exhibit. #ArtSky @dukepress.bsky.social

Indigenous Interference and Relations: Book Talks with Luis Cárcamo-Huechante and Joseph M. Pierce Join NAIS for a joint book talk featuring Luis Cárcamo-Huechante (UT Austin) and Joseph M. Pierce (Stony Brook University). The two scholars will discuss their recently-published books in dialogue wit...

Next Thursday 2/26 at UT Austin. liberalarts.utexas.edu/nais/events/...

Or else instant zonk 😴

If the United States was founded, then it is a fiction. And if it is a fiction, then its story requires tellers and listeners. And if it requires listeners, a public, an audience, then we can refuse to hear, to heed, its telling.

Green graphic reading "Cutting edge and fearless. Scintillating and sexy. DUP has published pathbreaking, experimental scholarship, with an eye toward future worlds on the horizon, and in that effort, has brought interdisciplinary scholarship to bear on the theories and practices that shape our lives. I'm proud to be a DUP author, joining other queer, Indigenous, and Indigiqueer scholars and writers who push all of us to think, feel, and relate in more nuanced and tender ways.-Joseph Pierce, Associate Professor and Inaugural Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University" DUP100 logo is at the bottom.

#DUP100 #DUPLove Thanks, @pepepierce.bsky.social!

Paperback book on a desk. The cover of the book is a collage featuring a dark-skinned man wearing a reflective visor over his eyes and butterfly wings where his hair would be. Title of the book is Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination, author's name is andré m. carrington

Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
@fordhampress.bsky.social

Portraits of three Native American Professor speakers and their book covers, promoting an online event

I'm thrilled to be presenting @arsavium.bsky.social & @pepepierce.bsky.social in conversation about their new books at @intellpublics.bsky.social with Audra Simpson!! Monday, Feb 23 at 6:30pm EST via Zoom webinar. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social register: bit.ly/gc-cuny-regi...

In her new book "The Sound of Feathers," Kathryn Gillespie urges us to slow down and pay attention to animals and nature on their own terms. In a Q&A today she talks about grieving over roadkill, speaking horse, and more. buff.ly/CRuwwAe

Tumbler Ridge school shooting: teacher and students hid for hours during Canadian attack – latest updates Mechanics teacher tells how he and 15 students barricaded workshop doors with metal benches

Horrid.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Happy hump day to those who celebrate.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Really grateful for the opportunity to chat with Conversations in Atlantic Theory about Speculative Relations. Podcast episode out now: open.spotify.com/episode/5vl3...

Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed Editions Today’s guest Dionne Brand, to borrow the words of John Keene, “is without question one of the major living poets in the English language.” Kamau Brathwaite called Brand “our first major exile female ...

"this does not need a balm
this needs an ending"
--Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being

Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?