Annika Williams (she/her)
@annikawilliams.bsky.social
grad student @ mcgill
mta bmus '23
📍Tiohtià:ke
musicology with a side of silliness and long covid | baroque opera, disability studies, Mad studies, gender studies | constantly crafting something with yarn
mta bmus '23
📍Tiohtià:ke
musicology with a side of silliness and long covid | baroque opera, disability studies, Mad studies, gender studies | constantly crafting something with yarn
pretty wild that the last 10 years have been so bad we all are reminiscing FONDLY about 2016
January 17, 2026 at 4:54 AM
pretty wild that the last 10 years have been so bad we all are reminiscing FONDLY about 2016
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your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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Best subtitle so far: “alpacas humming in distance”
December 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Best subtitle so far: “alpacas humming in distance”
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BONUS CONTENT!
This month only, you can watch our adorable queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 holiday 🎄rom-com 👩❤️💋👨 film 🍿 when you buy the EP: essentialopera.bandcamp.com/album/decemb...
As heard on CBC Music!
#opera #classical #musicaltheater #newmusic
This month only, you can watch our adorable queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 holiday 🎄rom-com 👩❤️💋👨 film 🍿 when you buy the EP: essentialopera.bandcamp.com/album/decemb...
As heard on CBC Music!
#opera #classical #musicaltheater #newmusic
December [Complete EP], by Essential Opera
5 track album
essentialopera.bandcamp.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
BONUS CONTENT!
This month only, you can watch our adorable queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 holiday 🎄rom-com 👩❤️💋👨 film 🍿 when you buy the EP: essentialopera.bandcamp.com/album/decemb...
As heard on CBC Music!
#opera #classical #musicaltheater #newmusic
This month only, you can watch our adorable queer 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 holiday 🎄rom-com 👩❤️💋👨 film 🍿 when you buy the EP: essentialopera.bandcamp.com/album/decemb...
As heard on CBC Music!
#opera #classical #musicaltheater #newmusic
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wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
no Quebec is wild bc what do you mean one of my fav thrift stores sells maple syrup now
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
no Quebec is wild bc what do you mean one of my fav thrift stores sells maple syrup now
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The AMS Music and Disability Study Group proudly welcomes Stefan Sunandan Honisch to the Community of Practice on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 at 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST via Zoom.
For more information and registration, please use the following link: www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/decembe...
For more information and registration, please use the following link: www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/decembe...
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The AMS Music and Disability Study Group proudly welcomes Stefan Sunandan Honisch to the Community of Practice on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 at 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST via Zoom.
For more information and registration, please use the following link: www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/decembe...
For more information and registration, please use the following link: www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/decembe...
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Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Chompsgiving!
I have a chapter in this!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/disabilit...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/disabilit...
www.bloomsbury.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I have a chapter in this!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/disabilit...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/disabilit...
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STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?
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Straight up fucked that you can’t vote today, even with proof of address, if you didn’t register online two weeks ago.
Thank god I remembered to register, but a friend who wanted to vote for Luc Rabouin just texted that she was turned away.
Montreal needs to fix this. It’s undemocratic.
Thank god I remembered to register, but a friend who wanted to vote for Luc Rabouin just texted that she was turned away.
Montreal needs to fix this. It’s undemocratic.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Straight up fucked that you can’t vote today, even with proof of address, if you didn’t register online two weeks ago.
Thank god I remembered to register, but a friend who wanted to vote for Luc Rabouin just texted that she was turned away.
Montreal needs to fix this. It’s undemocratic.
Thank god I remembered to register, but a friend who wanted to vote for Luc Rabouin just texted that she was turned away.
Montreal needs to fix this. It’s undemocratic.
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*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*
This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
August 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*
This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
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I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_
July 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_
Ozzy Osbourne dying just reminds me that I think I can still play the melody of Crazy Train on the flute through pure muscle memory bc it was the first band piece I ever played. Crazy Train flute version was absolutely iconic work on my band teachers part
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ozzy Osbourne dying just reminds me that I think I can still play the melody of Crazy Train on the flute through pure muscle memory bc it was the first band piece I ever played. Crazy Train flute version was absolutely iconic work on my band teachers part
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Florence’s Medici had a family curse: an agonizing hereditary medical condition causing torturous joint pain and severe mobility restrictions, so it was agony to stand, walk, or even hold a pen. Yes, Renaissance Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, was run by disabled people from a sickbed. 2/?
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Florence’s Medici had a family curse: an agonizing hereditary medical condition causing torturous joint pain and severe mobility restrictions, so it was agony to stand, walk, or even hold a pen. Yes, Renaissance Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, was run by disabled people from a sickbed. 2/?
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Friends, let's visit the largest, most famous disability access ramp on Earth...
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.
www.adapalmer.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Friends, let's visit the largest, most famous disability access ramp on Earth...
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/?
(Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS
So incredibly excited about this!!
Big news 📢 @essentialopera.bsky.social, @operamariposa.bsky.social, and a group of Canadian artists and researchers have formed a coalition for an exciting new project.
We’re developing a resource on immuno-inclusivity in opera spaces (and beyond!), supported by the Canada Council for the Arts!
We’re developing a resource on immuno-inclusivity in opera spaces (and beyond!), supported by the Canada Council for the Arts!
May 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
So incredibly excited about this!!
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It’s not too late to complete your submission for our #LongCOVID photovoice exhibit at the Museum of #Vancouver, debuting this fall! Open Canada-wide to any self-identified #longhauler 18+. Upload your photos by June 1 here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/YourPhotos
May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It’s not too late to complete your submission for our #LongCOVID photovoice exhibit at the Museum of #Vancouver, debuting this fall! Open Canada-wide to any self-identified #longhauler 18+. Upload your photos by June 1 here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/YourPhotos
AMS NYSSL chapter conference complete! What a great weekend!!
May 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
AMS NYSSL chapter conference complete! What a great weekend!!
Having such a great first day at the NYSSL AMS chapter meeting! So so many amazing papers and friends!
May 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Having such a great first day at the NYSSL AMS chapter meeting! So so many amazing papers and friends!
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PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holi...
www.aup.nl
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
it feels mandatory to use this to tell you that the cheer for the Victoire is "let's go Victoire" in a French accent, yes even if you're anglophone
‘Go Habs Go’ messaging on STM buses changed due to OQLF complaint
'Go Habs Go' messaging on STM buses changed due to OQLF complaint
The STM has had to change the customary 'Go Habs Go' text on the front of its buses due to a complaint filed to OQLF.
cultmtl.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
it feels mandatory to use this to tell you that the cheer for the Victoire is "let's go Victoire" in a French accent, yes even if you're anglophone
Another reason to not support starbucks
🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note.
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards?
Starbucks wants you infected.
👉 #Sickbucks 👈
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Another reason to not support starbucks