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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

He has so many interesting thoughts on the individual/society.

Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

neoliberal logics frames things like colonisation as "care" rather than "oppression." I argue that autoforms like autofiction and autotheory edit out the absurd logics of neoliberalism to allow for content that doesn't have to but up against these absurd logics. Warning: autotheory! 3/3

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

(like that writing about the self in the first-person is narcissistic but how writing the stories of others in the omniscient godly third-person is a shield *against* accusations of narcissism) and how…2/-

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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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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

I mean a regional literary magazine is literally my dream…and already with a name so fewer meetings. It will be physical not online, eh? That seems crucial.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Is Struck by Lightening on it? I love that so much.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It also connects with what Gessen says about idea that there is something inherently wrong with people who do not have children. For infertile people it can be cured through purchasing a child/infant. For evangelicals, their cultural standing is elevated by having biology and adopted children.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Another connection: while adoption is used as a tool of discrimination against LGBTQI+ communities, as Gessen says, in settler colonial cultures infant/child family separation is always used as a tool for moving children from Indigenous/poor families to white/richer (mostly evangelical) families.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Such a random way to cultivate a sense of self.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I overheard a conversation once where one person said they vote for the best looking candidate and another said they vote for who they thought would win bc they didn’t want to vote for a loser.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It’s a prerequisite in all settler colonial systems, but usually hidden.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

At a certain point all settler colonial projects have to encourage harm against indigenous children and the it becomes a part of the new colony. It’s the point of the system. That all these child abusers and enablers are at high levels is because it’s central—even important—to how the system works.

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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

Oh, I'll look it up. I hate the way that colonialism will use every dirty little trick to divide and dominate.

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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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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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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I find it easy to accept. And that the fate of trans women is inherently tied to the fate of Palestinian women. We are all connected against supremacist ideologies that dehumanise and disconnect.

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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

The political classes are weak and without ethics.

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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

It’s all so twisted towards the settler colonial state.

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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

Remember to curse Joe Biden, today and every day.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Colonial cultures always target children: USA “boarding schools”; Canadian “residential schools;” Australia’s Stolen Generation.

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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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