Author: Angela

Angela J Williams, PhD, is a writer, illustrator and story teller from Wollongong, Australia. 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.

And the case is closed so now I can write

On Tuesday the cops visited to tell me they couldn’t take action on the sexual assault because I didn’t report it until after he called the cops on me on October 30th last year (and because my trauma made me panic laugh after the assault). After telling me this, they finally wrote down the Crimestoppers […]

We aren’t obliged to respect police

Pretty much at the end of my ‘we can open their minds through debate’ tether so here’s my final statement on this (specific) topic. Blaming police brutality on a lack of respect is like asking a schoolkid what they were wearing when their teacher raped them. Disrespect is not an excuse for assault. But for […]

Snakes and Ladders Out Now

‘Tough, courageous, and moving, it’s about empowerment as much as powerlessness and, ultimately, the nature of power.’
The Age

What I learned from sharing my psychotic break on social media (10 min)

My name is Angela and I have complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In 2016/7, I had a psychotic break, was hospitalised twice, had Electro Convulsive Therapy and then started trying to get better. This is a short list of the biggest lessons I learned. 1. No-one is immune to mental illness The last time I […]

13 – Heat Delirium – excerpt (20 min read)

The heat has sapped those in green of the will to follow orders and those in blue of the ability to give them gently.

2008 On’ya Sonja – excerpt

The man on the table barely moved as I gripped the piercing needle firm between my latex-clad fingers, breathed in, out, and then drove it through the pinch of his skin I held between my fingers.

Suppression Orders or Why transparency matters (8 min read)

Suppression orders very rarely protect victims. In a post #metoo world, after that awful Royal Commission, we need to be looking at this system of enforced secrecy which forces victims to carry the crimes in their heads forever. We need to question how keeping the secrets of guilty people has contributed to Australia’s sickening history of institutional abuse.