In the first of a Women’s Super League series the
Australian goalkeeper discusses identity, being judged and missing the desert
When Arsenal’s Lydia Williams was growing up in Western Australia, the daughter of an
American mother and Indigenous Australian father, she constantly grappled with her identity.
“Everyone puts such an emphasis on black and white now that when you’re mixed you don’t really fit into either category,” she says. “You can act or be white in some part of your personality and then other sides can be black, but you get judged for it because you haven’t really picked a side or you haven’t really defined who you are.