One of Williams-Haas' first performances was singing backup to
Lena Horne on the song "
Believe In Yourself (reprise)" on the soundtrack of
The Wiz, a 1978 movie, in her childhood. In 1992, she moved to
Los Angeles, where she appeared in several independent films, including
Skin and Bone. She co-starred in the independent cult movie ''America's Deadliest Home Video
, developing the script in collaboration with Jack Perez. The movie is considered one of the grandfathers of "found footage" movies, predating Man Bites Dog and The Blair Witch Project''. Her performance in it has been described as "brilliant." While in Los Angeles, Williams also began exploring
BDSM. She subscribed to newsletter of the
Society of Janus and explored
kink and
fetish in what was then a newly burgeoning world of
online chat forums. She has been involved with the
leather subculture and BDSM since 1996. In 2009, she was named Ms. San Francisco Leather. In 2010, she was named
International Ms. Leather. In 2011, she published
The Toybag Guide to Playing With Taboo. Her short film
IMPACT, which involves her participating in BDSM scenes, was released in 2012. Also in 2012, Williams-Haas was awarded the
Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education Award by
Black Rose, a BDSM organization. She won the
National Leather Association International’s
Cynthia Slater Non-Fiction Article Award in both 2012 and 2013 for "Tables Briefly Turned" and "On Collars And Closure and Owning Myself", respectively. Also in 2013, she shared the National Leather Association International's Geoff Mains nonfiction book award with
Lee Harrington for
Playing Well With Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities, which they co-authored. In 2014, she was a guest on Season 1, Episode 6 of the
Sunny Megatron show on
Showtime, speaking on and demonstrating the fetish commonly referred to as
race play. In 2016,
The New York Times published an article about her BDSM relationship with her husband
Georg Friedrich Haas. ==Personal life==