I was the victim of a series of indecent assaults across 2013-4. I went to the police and they charged the perpetrator. The hearing started a few months back and was adjourned while I was giving evidence. I’m currently under oath and not allowed to talk about it. The defence told the police they are…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.
the semicolon project
Originally posted on hpwritesblogs:
Today I went to a tattoo artist, and for $60 I let a man with a giant Jesus-tattoo on his head ink a semi-colon onto my wrist where it will stay until the day I die. By now, enough people have started asking questions that it made sense for me to start…
Why I have a ‘feminist killjoy’ tattoo: the consequences and value of visible feminism
The other day I was having a conversation about Beyonce’s feminist credentials when the topic of labels came up. ‘If you need to label yourself,’ a very smart woman in the conversation said, ‘then maybe you’re not really that thing.’ At the time I nodded, yes, this makes sense. But the more I mulled it…More
‘How dare you call me privileged?’; Why owning your P-words won’t kill you
(Image: https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/politics-writing-perspective-privilege-power/) My privileges are that I’m white, educated, able-bodied, born with a gender I’m comfortable with and in a wealthy country with universal health and education. I am not living with an active addiction. I can read and write fluently in my birth language and am capable of accessing technology and resources that allow…More
Why marking essays is good for my soul
I came to university as a mature aged student. I was 26, hadn’t even finished high school. Now I’m ‘that guy’: completed two degrees with distinction averages, got a first class honours, almost finished a PhD that’s heavy on the critical theory, got a giant brain crush on Foucault. (Image: http://weknowmemes.com/generator/meme/foucault/284339/) Fourteen year-old aerosol-sniffing me…More
CACS Case Studies: Uncanny
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. UNCANNY (Image: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/040210-who-is-afraid-of-the-uncanny-valley) UNCANNY (unheimlich) That which is unfamiliar—or more literally, un-homely—in the familiar or homely (what we know). In a famous essay, ‘Das Unheimliche’ (1919), Freud argued that the uncanny is the feeling we get when an experience that occurred by chance…More
Are Depp’s dogs really that big a deal? Did we only care because the idea of dogs on public transport is taboo in Australia?
(Image: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/theres-already-a-countdown-to-johnny-depps-dogs-death#.nu13JkVvP) Johnny Depp’s dogs have been big news this week, ridiculously big news. If we shaved the offending mutts and laid all of their hairs end-to-end, I doubt we’d get anywhere near the column inches these two spoiled terriers have had in the last three days. That dastardly celebrity got on a private jet…More
CACS Case studies: Discipline
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. DISCIPLINE (Image: http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/blog/5327/untitled-humor?page=1)Concept: DISCIPLINE Michel Foucault‘s concept to describe a broad scale movement he detected in European history away from spectacular and grotesque forms of punishment towards more subtle modes of coercion that take the individual body as their target. Commencing in the…More
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