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Libby King

@libbyking.bsky.social
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Narrative approaches to neoliberalism | Flinders uni | she/her | 🇵🇸 | Australian in Canada | Work in Life Writing, Island, Meanjin, PRISM, Feb Journal, Grain, Project Passage

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I have a new essay out about how neoliberalism leads to endemic irony and normalised hypocrisy. The topic is narrative form and the crazy ideas that neoliberalism normalises 1/- Link is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Not All That: Autoforms, Narcissism, and the Neoliberal Cultural Landscape
In this paper, I suggest that autoforms—writing like autofiction, autotheory, fictocriticism, and autoethnography—act as cultural interventions in neoliberal landscapes. I suggest they make explici...
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Same neoliberal hacks here as on Twitter but no Palestinians
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
No difference.
Joe Biden has a book, upside down, called “The One Hundred Year War in Palestine” under the sleeve of a blue puffer jacket with his name and job title in it like he’s a stupid five year old. He wears a baseball cap and a stupid expression.Melania Trump gets into a car. She’s wearing white pants and a green jacket with the words “I really don’t care, do u?” written on the back in all caps in a handwriting font.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 22/11/2024
The big Haymarket all-bangers free ebook stock-up is on until tomorrow: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Photo of the covers of the following books: HOW WE GET FREE, Hope in the Dark, FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE, PALESTINE in a World on fire, Let This Radicalize You, Socialism…Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The way no one ever does the second one.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Thinking about how Gough Whitlam was removed by the Brits and Corbyn removed by the Yanks. Colonialism will use every dirty little trick.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It’s time.
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derridalicious @derridalicious.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant demonstrate urgent need for Australia to cut ties and sanction Israel. The time to act is now @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/icc-ar...
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ICC arrest warrants demonstrate urgent need for Australia to cut ties and sanction Israel
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Wealth growth since 1970 Average - 8% Top 10% - 85% Top 1% - 320% Top 0.01% - 4000% Billionaires - 32000% Can you see the problem?
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 21/11/2024
Opinion | Penny Wong's comments about Lidia Thorpe's and Ralph Babet's censures being about the "standard of respect" of senators is the mother of all false equivalences, writes Celeste Liddle. www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/22/l...
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Tarring Thorpe's and Babet's actions with the same brush is the mother of all false equivalences
The government's decision to censure Lidia Thorpe alongside Ralph Babet shows how little has been achieved since the failure of the Voice referendum.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The political classes in settler colonial states have a universal first class called “How to lose your ethics” eh?
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Remember to curse Joe Biden, today and every day.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Important on the ICC arrest warrants 👇🏻
Photo of tweet by Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) that reads:

“I don't know who else feels this but the effect of constant & relentless gaslighting by media, politicians, your own institutions is that you start to doubt everything, including yourself. Whatever else today represents, it represents a moment's reprieve from being gaslit.”
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
AI becomes dog.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Noura Erakst: “For the liberals who feign concern 4 Palestinians but insist it is Hamas's fault: Israelis shot children in the head & chest, sent quadcopters to shoot the injured, destroyed dialysis machines, denied everyone safe quarter. Children are the target, not the collateral damage.”
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Biden Dems are to the right of Regan Republicans.
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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Justice, is around the corner. Justice, you are taking too long.
The arrest warrants are great news, but make no mistake: Netanyahu and Gallant are not rogue dictators in an otherwise healthy democracy, but merely the current representatives of a fascist, apartheid regime filled with similarly depraved criminals. They cannot be scapegoated.Reminder: the ICC can issue arrest warrants for civilians who knowingly facilitate genocide.

Journalists and media figureheads who have intentionally misled entire populations into support for genocide with known lies should suffer similar consequences.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Political Prisoners, two years in prison for putting Tomato Soup on glass which took 30 seconds to clean off. Glass which they could have smashed with one blow, if they had wished to.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today of all days, this feels very important.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
a reminder that everything is connected
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/11/2024
The ICC said in a statement that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that Netanyahu and Gallant have violated international law in using starvation as a method of warfare and committed crimes against humanity of “murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”
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International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant for Crimes Against Humanity
The court said there is “reasonable ground” to believe the Israeli leaders committed crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"they won't stop at Palestinians" - ok even if they did stop at Palestinians they still need their ass beat, right?
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If Bluesky is this silent on the violent colonisation of Palestine the day ICC warrants are issued and with the people I follow here…it’s gonna be a no from me. Are there Zionists in the algorithm room or something? We want to know actual information not colonial propaganda.
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Peace Now @peacenowisrael.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Peace Now's Response to the ICC Arrest Warrants: Anyone who cares about our country, people, and future, must act NOW!
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rrunsworth.bsky.social @rrunsworth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Good. Today’s new should help. Starmer, Lammy et al all guilty as charged. To think they went to law school 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The ICC should arrest Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as they’re as culpable as Netanyahu who would have not been able to kill and starve Palestinians without their approval, encouragement, and funding
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’m not into bsky prioritising USA domestic politics in my feed. Make it international and universal, baby. I’ve no interest in perpetuating the idea of the USA as more important in any way besides their nuclear stockpile.
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
These posts appeared together in my feed & they speak to me. Human rights are interconnected. Biden & “left Zionists” confuse it, but we cannot ignore rampant anti-Palestinian bigotry & expect rampant anti-trans bigotry not to grow stronger. Supremacist ideologies are always deadly & sadistic.
Photo of two posts.

The first by Carta Monir (carta.bsky.social) reads: “Solidarity means joining forces with people you find annoying so you can more effectively fight people who want you dead.”

The second by israsaid.bsky.social (israsaid.bsky.social) has text and three photos. The text reads: “What did my innocent niece Liyaar do to deserve what happened to her? She survived the first bombing and was carried out from under the rubble by a civil defense man, but in the second bombing, Liyaar was killed along with my family💔” 

The three photos are side-by-side and they are all of a little girl. In the first she is around six. She is covered in grey dust and wears khaki green shorts and a matching top. Her hair is curly and messy. She is being carried by a man of around twenty or thirty in a baseball cap. In the second, the child is around seven. Her face is waxy, her eyes are closed, spans she is covered in a film of blood. In the third photo she is around five, she sits on a white couch inside and is wearing a paste green frilly dress and white stockings. Her curly hair has a green flower in it to match the dress. She is wearing a bright blue plastic ring and has a purple toy in her hand, but it’s not clear what kind of toy it is.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The US is now selling weapons and military jet fuel to a wanted war criminal
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
ICC Prosecutor says his office is moving forward with new lines of inquiry in Gaza & West Bank, incl. East Jerusalem. “I am concerned about reports of escalating violence, shrinking humanitarian access, & expansion of allegations of international crimes,” he says. www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on the issuance of arrest warrants in the Situation in the State of Palestine
On 20 May 2024, my Office submitted applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I in relation to the situation in the State of Palestine.   Today, based on the evidence presented by m...
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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Only the middle one is wrong. Netanyahu has never been defence minister, but he was the one who provided the seed funding for Hamas. The thing about Palestinians is that being multi-religious is a national identity, so fighting a Holy War against them is hard…until an Islamic wing came into money.
Photo of a text that reads: “masterclass in why the oxford comma matters from @nytimes”.

Below that is a photo of a newspaper headline that reads: “The ICC issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a former Israeli defense ministers and the Hamas military chief.”
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Will the ICC march Starmer to the Hague too, now Netanyahu is a wanted man? The #ICC has finally issued an arrest warrant for #Netanyahu - but what about Israel genocide-denier & complicit party Keir Starmer and other UK ministers? www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
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Will the ICC march Starmer to the Hague too, now Netanyahu is a wanted man?
The ICC Netanyahu arrest warrant has finally been given - but what about Israel genocide-denier & complicit party Keir Starmer?
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/11/2024
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau confirms Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant will be arrested if they step foot in Canada after the ICC’s decision to issue arrest warrants.
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Canada 'will abide' by ICC ruling on Netanyahu
PM Trudeau says Canada must 'remember who we are' and abide ICC rulings when asked about the arrest warrant issued for Netanyahu.
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