Joseph M. Pierce

The hole of America ruined by Trump.

(lol you wish…)

I mean, there is A LOT of personal writing there. But I feel like I’m trying to extend myself toward people and hope they grab me back.

copy of SPECULATIVE RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS WORLDING AND REPAIR by joseph m. pierce. the cover features the artwork “chief pretty eagle” by jeffrey gibson, against a yellow background.

i have been looking forward to this latest from @pepepierce.bsky.social
for so long! 💚

I still don’t! Wowwwwww yayyyyyyy omg I’m so happy!

Omg you have it!!!!!!

Some day soon the paint on our faces will run
streaming ochre
candy.
And the effort will have been worth it
to cry red tears
rather than
beg for
recognition.

“In stock” now :)

Not a drill!!! Speculative Relations is now “for sale” which means if you order it, it will be shipped to youuuuuuuu like soon!!!!! Omgaaaa

Book release month!!!!

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World captures and expands these lectures to illuminate our path toward this possible beautiful world. Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation) asserts that "for this decolonial future to become possible, the guiding force must no longer be capital but relations." Film curator Jana na Oliveira (Brazil) evokes music and movement as a means toward this relationality. Visual artist Phoebe Boswell (UK/Kenya) asks, "If we burn down the institution, what happens next?" Saidiya Hartman (US) prompts us to consider our capacity to burn, examining whether "the gift of pragmatism yields a profound tolerance of the unlivable." Cristina Rivera Garza (US/Mexico) gives us the language of the future in the subjunctive, "the smuggler who crosses the border of the future bearing unknown cargo." Each alchemist is intimately concerned with this cargo, our ability to bear its weight, and how we might find the beautiful world together.

OK. Before I go on vacation for the week I need #BookSky to know about this book. Sadiya Hartman! Cristina Rivera Garza! Introduced by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social are you kidding me?!

Please give if you can, great opportunity to make more impact w fewer dollars

New words on the stack

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If a book is a world, then it is the enactment of living in the worlding of others, an archive and a fleeting possibility, rendered material through the hope of a future as it could be.

To every NDN in the world: you are more than the word “heritage” could possibly describe.

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If you are able by yourself or with a group of people, do matching funds for Sameer Project.

It’s a great way to make our contributions go further.

It’s beyond urgent.

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Brooklyn!

Baltimore!

“their orders are to call CBP anytime they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant” is the line that’s getting me, tbh. This is so clearly about way more than just so-called “illegal” immigration.

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

Owning the words: Lessons on writing from Elizabeth Cook-Lynn No thinker has occupied as much space in my mind than Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

My latest: Owning the words: Lessons on writing from Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

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Workshopping my anti-AI syllabus statement: In this course we will not be using AI. Sometimes the tech overlords insinuate themselves into our lives, but here we will resist. Our data is precious, our data is sovereign, and we will not be allowing the AI to access our work, thought, soul, at all.

We
Didn’t
Kill
Enough
Indians
says an angry white lady,
for applause,
and in their rapture,
the thought of genocide
emerges
a wish,
a dream unfulfilled,
an aching regret.

If I had a tv network it would be called ABN: Always Be Napping.

Nothing to celebrate.

Fiscal conservatism has always and forever shall be a thirst for human suffering.

On the scale of capitalist delusions, it is heavy, and on the scale of dignity, it is absent.

One wonders how many billions of dollars it costs to purchase forgiveness for the blood on the hands of such people.

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

Second time in a week that a cis het man has walked into the public “men’s room,” seen me from behind, long hair down, and stopped in his tracks, confused, alarmed, as I witness in the mirror.

Cover of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph Pierce. The background is bright yellow with an artwork by Jeffy Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, at its center. Gibson's piece is a colorful, geometric collage composed of repeating, partially obscured portraits of an Indigenous American man. The composition also includes bright chevron patterns, a beaded, reversed American flag, and a red button that reads "Question Reality."

Drawing on Cherokee thinking, queer theory, cultural studies, & art criticism, "Speculative Relations" by @pepepierce.bsky.social considers the potential of Indigenous relations to repair the damages of history & imagine new futures. Read the intro for free! #IndigenousStudies
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