Father’s Day has always been a hard one. It’s 40 years since he died and this is the first FD since my mother’s suicide. My girlfriend is off working with my son and her daughter, so I’ve been left alone with my thoughts. And my grief. I haven’t busted my father’s grave since covid began.…More
Author Archives: Angela
Angela J Williams, PhD, is a writer, illustrator and story teller from Wollongong, Australia.
She is the author of Snakes and Ladders: a memoir and host of the Deboning Power Podcast.
A writer, thinker and yeller, Angela Williams is mildly notorious for seeing problems and pointing them out. She’s tussled with Fred Nile in the Sydney Morning Herald, taken academia to task in the Guardian’s Anonymous Academic, gone to Crikey about the treatment of mentally ill women in prison, and most recently blown the whistle on dangerous risks in her (former) charity workplace. Angela does one thing really well – find problems and yell about them.
No filter – unlearning self censorship
Today is 40 years since my father died from alcoholism and 295 days since my mother died, suspected to have taken her own life. I’ve found it particularly hard to speak lately, in words and writing. But that got me thinking about how much I filter myself in general, particularly in this space. Studying writing…More
The Morrison Government’s cover-up is increasing my suicide risk
The Morrison government claims to care about people at risk of suicide but from where I’m sitting it feels like they’re setting me up for a fall. I’m a sexual assault survivor and live with a high risk of taking my own life. Reading the news has become a dangerous activity. Every day the Morrison…More
Spin Busting – What Australia can learn from the US coup
In the face of what’s happening in America, I ask Australia to reflect on our similarities to America as we all reel at the armed insurrection attempted today by Trump supporters. More
Getting Better – Talking with sex workers
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/7134982-getting-better-talking-with-sex-workers Two days ago I posted on Facebook about a woman who contacted me to ask questions about my sex work for ‘her own personal curiosity’. This episode responds to that and expands on how we talk about sex work. My Facebook post: Woman in the comments of the news conference today asked about how…More
Monday Kink – Pain and Catharsis
For the first Monday Kink of 2021 we are looking at pain and catharsis. More
Getting Better – Snakes and Ladders – Chapter 1 – read by author
I’m taking a break from thinking today to share the first part of my memoir Snakes and Ladders. More
Spin Busting – The experts Gladys is ignoring
This episode cuts through the power web between NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the billionaire funders of the Liberal National Coalition, and shows how the ‘expert opinions’ feeding into decisions are being shaped by this entanglement of money and corruption. More
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