The Melancholy of Joseph M. Pierce

Episode 58

We talked about the intense erotics of the locker room, the transcendent experience of being part of an orchestra, the big gestures and trickster strategies that are core to Joseph’s embodied experience.

Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the intersections of kinship, gender, sexuality, and race in Latin America, 19th century literature and culture, queer studies, Indigenous studies, and hemispheric approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019) and many other publications.  He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is the co-editor of Políticas del amor: Derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur (Cuarto Propio, 2018) as well as the 2021 special issue of GLQ, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable.” His work has been published recently in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Critical Ethnic Studies, Latin American Research Review, and has also been featured in Indian Country Today. Along with S.J. Norman (Koori of Wiradjuri descent) he is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds.

If you want to follow his work, you can find him on Twitter and Instagram @pepepierce and on Substack at Indigiqueer Confidential.  You can experience XXX on instagram @decolonialloveletters

Photo credit: Bruce Michaels