This rules session is designed for intermediate but not-yet-bout-ready skaters and covers the basics of blocking. Please feel free to use and adapt this pdf. BasicsForBlockers All rule references refer to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s ‘Standardized Flat Track Roller Derby Rules‘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.
Rule Session: Direction of Gameplay
This rules session is designed for almost bout-ready skaters and covers Direction of Gameplay penalties. Please feel free to use and adapt this pdf. RuleFocusSessionDOGP All rule references refer to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s ‘Standardized Flat Track Roller Derby Rules‘More
Rule Session: Roller Derby Basics
This rules session is designed for the freshest of freshmeat and covers the basics skaters need to know before starting contact training. Please feel free to use and adapt this pdf. RuleFocusSessionRollerDerbyBasics All rule references refer to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s ‘Standardized Flat Track Roller Derby Rules‘More
Rule Session: Out Of Bounds Blocking
This rules session is designed for almost bout-ready skaters and covers Out of Bounds Blocking. Please feel free to use and adapt this pdf. RuleFocusSessionOOBB All rule references refer to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s ‘Standardized Flat Track Roller Derby Rules‘More
Dear 2010
Dear 2010, I’m not very happy with you. I feel like you welshed on our bet, like you painted me a lovely picture but then took a giant dump right in the centre of the canvas, like you stole twelve whole months from me, twelve months I’ll never get back. Shaking my fist at you,…More
Mental health behind bars (part two): why women prisoners are set up to fail
Freelance journalist Inga Ting writes: Incidents of mental illness in our prison system are disproportionately high — particularly among female inmates. In part two of a special report into the NSW female prison population (read part one here), Inga Ting examines how they find themselves behind bars and why they are disadvantaged while they are…More
Mental health behind bars: why women prisoners are set up to fail
Inga Ting, Crikey, 9/12/2010 Jennifer (not her real name), a mother and university graduate, says she would not have considered herself at risk of suicide or self harm when she entered the prison system earlier this year. Before February, when she was arrested for a crime committed more than 12 years ago, Jennifer was enjoying…More
Court delays mean more jail time for innocent
Sydney Morning HeraldGeesche Jacobsen and Nick RalstonOctober 26, 2010 More than 1400 adults and children who were never convicted of a crime were imprisoned last year, some for months, and the time people spend behind bars before being cleared by the courts is getting longer. While court delays overall have fallen in most…More
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