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Thank you, @fhiduke.bsky.social for hosting Dr. Jodi Byrd tonight to talk about INDIGENOMICON: American Indians, Video Games, and Structures of Dispossesion

Catch authors @pepepierce.bsky.social, @michellehsho.bsky.social, @summerkimlee.bsky.social, and @arsavium.bsky.social at in-person and online events in December! buff.ly/XxR5lqg

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A special issue of American Quarterly which will appear in September 2027. Myself, Jodi Byrd, Sharon Holland, and Greta LaFleur will be editing an issue which will span the historical periods of the 16th-20th c. Deadline for abstracts is December 15.

Through December 25, save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code NWSA25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #NWSA2025 #WomensStudies #GenderStudies #FeministStudies #SexualityStudies buff.ly/Vvbqfqg

Official release day! 11/11 and I’m so excited this book is finally in the world with help from @dustign.bsky.social Dustin Mater for the beautiful cover and Ideas on Fire for the deep indexing. It’s about video games, and so much more. No spoilers.

Families were "horrified" after a daycare teacher was pulled out of a preschool by armed federal agents. blockclubchi.co/4ooIC70

We have a terrific slate of #NewBooks coming out this November, including "Indigenomicon" by Jodi A. Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social. See all November titles and save 50% with coupon FALL25 during our fall sale! buff.ly/KsghzeM

Save 50% on #NewBook Indigenomicon by Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social, which brings video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. buff.ly/FBknSYW

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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW ELH Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2025 #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE tinyurl.com/253d5mh8#S2O#OpenAccessCONTRIBUTORS Virginia Jackson Meredith Martin Sonya Posmentier Feisal G. Mohamed Anna Brickhouse Joseph Jonghyun Jeon Jodi A. Byrd Edgar Garcia Jennifer L. Fleissner Karen Tongson & more!

In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8

Indigenomicon is set to release in November but you can now read the introduction online at Duke University Press: www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

if you are going to quote the declaration of independence today like it is some radical document and rallying cry, please clearly enunciate as you read “merciless Indian savages” stop trying to build a house on a rotten foundation read: indianz.com/News/2018/07...

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride. I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

NEW — Alds. Jeanette Taylor and Andre Vasquez were among the Chicago City Council members who are urging their colleagues to vote “no” on a controversial “snap curfew” ordinance. thetriibe.com/2025/06/live...

The George Floyd Uprising started 5 years ago tonight. Nearly 24 hours after Floyd was killed by police, a vigil attended by thousands marched three miles to the 3rd Precinct. Ep. 1 of Reporter Reflection [13-min], highlights Day 1 of the uprising in Minneapolis. unicornriot.ninja/2025/reporte...

Check out our new Fall 2025 catalog, featuring books from @wolffdr.bsky.social , @naylandblake.bsky.social , @bethdrobinson.bsky.social , @arsavium.bsky.social , @pepepierce.bsky.social , & @wazhmah.bsky.social , plus many more titles! bit.ly/3ENyHXd?utm_...

“The Quest” acrylics on canvas 40x30” in this painting, I wanted to convey a feeling of an early 90s RPG video game cover but with a Muskogean prism.This particular piece was commissioned by Dr Jodi Byrd for her new book “Indigenomicon” #nativeamericanart #indigenousart #seemecommunity

Duke's page for my book is live with cover art by Chickasaw artist Dustin Mater! Out 11/11: www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

Fingers crossed for November 11: www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

One of the best explanations I’ve seen of the stakes of the disregard of data laws intended to prevent wholesale surveillance of the US public by its govt. The DOGE one-two punch is to disregard or dissolve the data regulations that protect us and then use AI to consolidate info about each of us.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

We know recent ICE encounters in urban areas have caused stress & concern. There have been no confirmed detentions, but counseling services available if needed. Carry your driver's license & reach out to local reps for support. www.kunm.org/local-news/2...

So honored to give this talk on Settler Militarism on 2/28 @ 6pm EST. All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project! Thank you to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social for the invitation and for organizing 💜

It is amazing what universities will stand up for and against when there’s money involved. Land-grant Us have their own association because of course they do. They will stand up for each other to keep NIH. It’s a matter of law and civility in the settler imperium.

One of our brilliant students wrote an analysis of how Universities laid the groundwork for Trump's repressive policies. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Native Americans and Immigration Enforcement -- Know Your Rights! Share! narf.org/citizenship-...

Trump is not joking about making Canada the 51st state, Justin Trudeau warns in hot mic comments www.thestar.com/politics/don...

Because in this moment, with H5N1 and egg shortages among all the other attacks on life, this is the story NY Times runs. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/s...

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

I hope every Indigenous artist proposes a celebration of "Merciless Indian Savages" for the semiquincentinnial. America250! Amazing.

3 weeks away and I’ll be doing weekly countdowns 😍😍😍

If you haven't ever read it, here's President Andrew Jackson's December 6, 1830 speech "On Indian Removal." Worth a read. Jackson posits 12 million happy people against a few thousand savages. It's a fitting tribute to the US's glorious law abiding presidency: www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

Jackson just announced the removal of Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole Nations. What’s a few thousand savages to 12,000,000 shiny happy people?

Students and faculty got arrested and put their careers on the line protesting genocide. I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.

Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead was an apocalyptic road map vision for where we are now as billionaire oligarch destroyers imagine leaving us the ruins as they ascend to Mars.

My dad who was Chickasaw would always tell me, why would you want to go to Europe? There's a reason those people left.

Where are folks getting reliable news? Any recommended podcasts, etc? Who is holding the intersections that attacks on trans kids in k-12 happened in a simultaneous EO attack on Black and Indigenous histories toward a celebration of 1776 in 2026? If I hear 1940s one more time as the frame, I will 🤮.

It’s precious that so many on the left and right feel the US was at some point a great nation of laws that has now been betrayed. Andrew Jackson didn’t abide by Supreme Court rulings, Indian removal is precedence as much as the global 1940s. George Washington is Town Destroyer.

People are understandably feeling scared as Trump unleashes his torrent of attacks on vulnerable populations. But some in the grassroots are fighting back, piece by piece. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social burns and I documented one such effort in Chicago disrupting Trump’s mass deportation plans.

New EO mandates patriotic k-12 pedagogy aligned with a year long celebration of 1776 in 2026 as the 250 year anniversary. Is settler colonialism a factual description or a discriminatory description of US history? Asking for a friend.

There's one episode of Pretendians I'm now SUPER thankful we didn't do. It's on this guy in Texas who created a fake Native American Tribe and sold memberships to undocumented Mexican migrants, telling them that it would give them the right to stay in the US. 1 www.ice.gov/news/release...

ICE targeted hundreds of people for arrest in Chicago — with Dr. Phil broadcasting live. buff.ly/42xAxVK

Renaming Denali kills me, both because it is racist / anti-Indigenous in such an extraordinarily petty way and because his stated rationale is that WIlliam McKinley was a big fan of tariffs as a tool of economic policy. Corrupt, racist, and unforgivably on the nose: the Trump brand.