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.

Tricks to an amazingly successful WIRD Trivia Night 2009

WIRD Trivia 2009 was such a success that we are already discussing it as an annual event. All up we made just about $2000 profit, all of which will be getting funneled back into the league! We were all a bit freaked out in the lead-up but the night went awesome and I’m gonna share…More

‘What is this Roller Derby?’

With WIRD’s Trivia Night only seven days away preparations are in full swing. There are groups sweating away to get things sorted and my contribution right now is these shiny new informative doovies to scatter on tables. As always, take what you need to help make your own league. 🙂More

Successful first training at the Sports HUB

Marking out the track according to the WFTDA specifications and using a rope template which I whipped up after spotting one being used by SRDL. Not sure if ours conforms to their design as it was reverse engineered from a quick glance from a distance and some careful untangling of the WFTDA track plan. Our…More

WIRD’s First Grading

A few weeks ago one of our training committee put together a grading package for us. Drop Bear did a whole bunch of research and put together the following system based on some conversations she had with other trainers and other gradings she had looked at. We pretty much all passed ‘Red’ on the day…More

Successful grant application

The Wollongong City Council cultural grant which we applied for back in late April was successful. WIRD have been given $1500 towards our ‘Steel City/Skate City’ event planned for the first quarter of 2010. It was a bit of a shock as we had been informed we didn’t get it and so when the envelope…More

WIRD’s 2009 Membership card

With offers of support flooding in, including offers of discounts to skaters, I decided it was time we had some proof of membership. Whipped these up and got them voted in – it was decided to print them on purple paper and go the whole hot laminating road from there. We are also attempting to…More

Get your red hot Roller Derby on YouTube

Wollongong Illawarra Roller Derby has made it to the (small) big screen! Check out our channel WIRDVideos. Realised about ten minutes after I uploaded our first clip that it really could have been WIRD TV and that would have been hot. Alas.More