Louisa Lim
@louisalim.bsky.social
Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
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Just started reading Louisa Lim’s « Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong»:
« The police, instead of being guarantors of security, were behaving like violent thugs… . Far from protecting reporters as civilians, the police were singling [journalists] out for attack. »
Trump=PRC
« The police, instead of being guarantors of security, were behaving like violent thugs… . Far from protecting reporters as civilians, the police were singling [journalists] out for attack. »
Trump=PRC
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Just started reading Louisa Lim’s « Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong»:
« The police, instead of being guarantors of security, were behaving like violent thugs… . Far from protecting reporters as civilians, the police were singling [journalists] out for attack. »
Trump=PRC
« The police, instead of being guarantors of security, were behaving like violent thugs… . Far from protecting reporters as civilians, the police were singling [journalists] out for attack. »
Trump=PRC
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Americans should read this book. It's eerily relevant.
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Americans should read this book. It's eerily relevant.
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
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Everyone has their favorite historical parallels to the rising authoritarianism right now in America. The one I find myself looking to most is Hong Kong/China. Particularly personified by two excellent books from journalist @louisalim.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Everyone has their favorite historical parallels to the rising authoritarianism right now in America. The one I find myself looking to most is Hong Kong/China. Particularly personified by two excellent books from journalist @louisalim.bsky.social
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Labor Day afternoon cappuccino and a book. The way it should be.
September 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Labor Day afternoon cappuccino and a book. The way it should be.
What a list to be in! Thank you @georgiarybanks.bsky.social
For the cast:
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
For slowing down:
The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
For getting lost in:
James, Pervical Everett
Indelible City, Louisa Lim
Cautious recc:
Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
For slowing down:
The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
For getting lost in:
James, Pervical Everett
Indelible City, Louisa Lim
Cautious recc:
Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What a list to be in! Thank you @georgiarybanks.bsky.social
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Amazing authors supported YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION by providing praise which appeared on the back cover (known as blurbs). We want to thank each of them, starting with @louisalim.bsky.social! Thank you Louisa — it meant the world to us to get your thumbs up!
September 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Amazing authors supported YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION by providing praise which appeared on the back cover (known as blurbs). We want to thank each of them, starting with @louisalim.bsky.social! Thank you Louisa — it meant the world to us to get your thumbs up!
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Session 3: @sophtree.bsky.social, @louisalim.bsky.social & @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social about resistance, literature as power & literature as activism. #StellaDayOut
August 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Session 3: @sophtree.bsky.social, @louisalim.bsky.social & @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social about resistance, literature as power & literature as activism. #StellaDayOut
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Looking forward to one of the best literary events of the year! 🥳 #StellaDayOut is happening this month & here in Melbourne, it's on 18th of Aug 2025 (Mon). Feat. @clairegcoleman.bsky.social @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social @louisalim.bsky.social
Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...
Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...
Melbourne – Stella
share.google
August 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Looking forward to one of the best literary events of the year! 🥳 #StellaDayOut is happening this month & here in Melbourne, it's on 18th of Aug 2025 (Mon). Feat. @clairegcoleman.bsky.social @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social @louisalim.bsky.social
Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...
Melbourne – Stella share.google/gQyQRF7f7nOf...
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Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.
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Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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A great, and quietly shocking, episode of @littleredpodcast.bsky.social.
@louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social
@louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social
Karma Chameleon: The CCP turns to Buddhism
Podcast Episode · The Little Red Podcast · 22/07/2025 · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A great, and quietly shocking, episode of @littleredpodcast.bsky.social.
@louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social
@louisalim.bsky.social, @graemeksmith.bsky.social @wingkuang.bsky.social
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#China: Today, Sebastien Lai, son of #HongKong writer and media publisher #JimmyLai, addressed the UN Human Rights Council as a representative of PEN International and called for his father's release.
Watch his statement here🔽
Watch his statement here🔽
China-Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai’s son calls for his father’s release at the UN Human Rights Council — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
18 June 2025: Today, Jimmy Lai’s son, Sebastien Lai, addressed the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) as a representative of PEN International during an Interactive Dialogue...
www.pen-international.org
June 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up three pro-democracy banners on an overpass in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.
Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
Another ‘Bridge Man’ in China Forcibly Disappeared
On April 15, Mei Shilin put up three banners on an overpass outside Chengdu’s Chadianzi Metro Station in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward. ...
www.hrw.org
April 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up three pro-democracy banners on an overpass in China’s southwestern Sichuan province.
Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
Authorities reportedly detained Mei soon afterward, and his current whereabouts are unknown.
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Periodic reminder and proof that Hong Kong is NOT part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. (Cc. @louisalim.bsky.social)
กิจกรรมล่าสุดของพวกเรา
สนับสนุน #พันธมิตรชานม และพันธมิตร
——
More: mtag.info/gal2live
Original tweet by @FY4Chan
Link: twitter.com/1427500444327104514/status/1908762210631115020
สนับสนุน #พันธมิตรชานม และพันธมิตร
——
More: mtag.info/gal2live
Original tweet by @FY4Chan
Link: twitter.com/1427500444327104514/status/1908762210631115020
April 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Periodic reminder and proof that Hong Kong is NOT part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. (Cc. @louisalim.bsky.social)
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I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else
April 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else
The piece you didn't know you needed to read.
Trump’s Oval Office Is an Interior Designer’s Nightmare
Has he never heard of negative space?
www.thecut.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The piece you didn't know you needed to read.
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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More than BTW, I want so much for Hong Kong to not become part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. And believe it still isn't. With regards to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and also the events that @louisalim.bsky.social wrote about in her "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong".
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
More than BTW, I want so much for Hong Kong to not become part of the People's Republic of Amnesia. And believe it still isn't. With regards to the Tiananmen Square Massacre and also the events that @louisalim.bsky.social wrote about in her "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong".
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This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.
Extraordinary.
Extraordinary.
March 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.
Extraordinary.
Extraordinary.
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Just thinking about when the Atlanta shootings happened and Asian American journalists were told they were too biased to cover it.
Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.
Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.
Years ago a white editor* asked if I was biased about immigration stories because I'm an immigrant. I've been asked a version of this question dozens of times since. The driving idea is that people who embody difference introduce bias; it's the framework that maintains white supremacy in newsrooms.
February 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just thinking about when the Atlanta shootings happened and Asian American journalists were told they were too biased to cover it.
Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.
Anyhow, there's many reasons that I helped start an Asian American magazine, but telling our stories on our own terms is one of them.
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Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
www.wired.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
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Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.
February 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.
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From @louisalim.bsky.social's "Indelible City": "At the end of July, ...local triads in Yuen Long... ran amok inside a subway station... [D]ressed in white T-shirts, [they] were looking for black-clad protestors but ended up beating anyone in their path. The police did not arrive for 35 minutes..."
96. HONG KONG
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
by Louisa Lim
A compelling and personal account of pro-democracy protests, local history, global politics and daily life in Hong Kong
Had me hooked from the very start
Related pod: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#ReadTheWorld
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
by Louisa Lim
A compelling and personal account of pro-democracy protests, local history, global politics and daily life in Hong Kong
Had me hooked from the very start
Related pod: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#ReadTheWorld
February 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
From @louisalim.bsky.social's "Indelible City": "At the end of July, ...local triads in Yuen Long... ran amok inside a subway station... [D]ressed in white T-shirts, [they] were looking for black-clad protestors but ended up beating anyone in their path. The police did not arrive for 35 minutes..."
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NYT: #Trump’s New Crackdown on #China Is Just Beginning, with a clamp down on Chinese investment & access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Trump’s New Crackdown on China Is Just Beginning
The administration is positioning itself to clamp down on Chinese investment and access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
NYT: #Trump’s New Crackdown on #China Is Just Beginning, with a clamp down on Chinese investment & access to technology. But the wild card may be the president himself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...