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Heading out for a week-long conference at the American Academy in Berlin, at which several experts in gender and sexuality rights in Latin American contexts will be presenting, and BOOM. Roe v. Wade is overturned. And I’m in an airport and I can’t tell if the quiet is
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Gay NDN ghosts and a wedding
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This is Indigiqueer Confidential, a newsletter about LOL, maybe its about queer Indigenous academic things?. Subscribe now
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I was asked to participate in a forum, "The Global Dimensions of Black Lives Matter: Where Do We Go From Here?," hosted by Stony Brook University on June 24, 2020. This video is what I presented. The text follows. https://youtu.be/4MeaJEgU7CE My name is Joseph Pierce.
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In February 2020 I collaborated with three other Cherokee Nation citizens, Daniel Heath Justice, Rebecca Nagle, and Twila Barnes, organizing an open letter to US Senator Elizabeth Warren. This letter was signed by over 200 Cherokees and other Native Americans. The letter can be found here. The Warren campaign’s
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Thanksgiving is a tough holiday for many Native people. Like Columbus Day, it finds a way to make the erasure of Native folks central to its mission, by omission or otherwise. I had an op-ed in TruthOut to mark the occasion. It starts like this: Thanksgiving is a colonial holiday
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In a recent round of tweet media, conservative Latino writer Giancarlo Sopo cites a new poll that found that only 2% of those surveyed preferred Latinx as a marker of ethnicity, countering that “it is unclear what led progressive activists to believe “Latinx” is necessary”. https://www.theblaze.com/news/
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I’m so happy. I can’t even describe it. My book is now a physical object. It smells like glue and the pages have texture. The cover is hard and white and gold. In the future, people will put their coffee cups on it and then realize that it
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I live-tweeted the recent Native American Presidential Forum, and after receiving numerous press inquiries–including for this piece in the Times–I decided to put some of my thoughts together in a more cohesive and personal way. Here is an op-ed on Warren’s almost-apology that Protean Mag published. The
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I had a great time over at Hyperallergic being interviewed about queerness, decolonial practices, art, and ongoing struggles for liberation. We discussed the history of Wall Street as a border wall, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Argentine Homosexual Liberation Front, and the GLQ special issue that I am editing with
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I have an op-ed out now in Hyperallergic about an incident of cultural appropriation at this year’s WorldPride in NYC. This was really hard to write. And I’m not sure I managed to be as precise or nuanced as I wanted, but I’m glad it’s out
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I have an essay out in Revista Anfibia (in Spanish) about Claudia Rodríguez, her visit to NYC and Stony Brook University, and the affective fields at play in travesti politics across contexts. You can read it here. Here’s the opening: – ¿De qué tienen que hablar las travestis? Claudia Rodríguez