Posts by: Sherry Toh

Sherry Toh

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

The Intersection of Friendship and SMA: An Interview With Columnist Brianna Albers

SMA Awareness Month is upon us! To celebrate and remind everyone that raising awareness includes talking about our daily lives and relationships, I’m honored my best friend, Brianna Albers, said ... Read more

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

How to Become a Freelance Journalist: Crip Edition

SMA News Today Columns

From my perspective, the typical path to becoming a journalist looks like this: First, you enter the formal education system and learn what you can from kindergarten till high school. ... Read more

July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

The Importance of Paradises in a World on Fire

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

A single lyric keeps ringing in my head from Fletcher’s latest single, “Her Body Is Bible.” It goes, “Hold on tight, when the world gets hard, this s**t’s like paradise.” ... Read more

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

I’m Convinced COVID-19 Vaccines (and My Mum) Saved My Life

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

When my little brother and I were barely out of our toddler years, there was one question I’d constantly hear other parents ask my mum: “Did your children get all ... Read more

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

My Love Is My Pride in a World That Doesn’t Always Accept Me

SMA News Today Columns

This Pride Month, I recalled an old friend from England telling me, “If anyone thinks being gay or bi is a choice or a lifestyle, they’re probably not straight.” It’s ... Read more

June 8, 2022June 21, 2022

My Love Is My Pride in a World That Doesn’t Always Accept Me

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

This Pride Month, I recalled an old friend from England telling me, “If anyone thinks being gay or bi is a choice or a lifestyle, they’re probably not straight.” It’s ... Read more

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

Diagnosing the Appeal of Elizabeth Holmes and the Claims She Made

SMA News Today Columns

For the past several months, I’ve been obsessed with stories about financial fraud by perpetrators of elaborate schemes. Hence, I fell down the rabbit hole of the story of Elizabeth ... Read more

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

There’s No Success Without Rest

SMA News Today Columns

As you get older, proper rest tends to become an appointment you have to schedule. It’s something you have an abundance of when you’re an infant, but its presence steadily ... Read more

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

The Terror and Beauty of Miracles

SMA News Today Columns

I had different plans for this week’s column. As I write this, I have a spreadsheet open with my column schedule. Next to the deadline date I’ve typed “TFIOS column,” ... Read more

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

I Won’t Quit My Fight for Access to Evrysdi in Singapore

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

Editor’s note: This column discusses suicide. Please find resources for help at the end of the column. I wish the call had been an April Fools’ prank. As readers of ... Read more

March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

What Disability Rights Activists Can Learn From Women’s Rights Activists

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

Back in 2019, I signed up for an online women’s health and rights course by women’s rights activist and Stanford teacher Anne Firth Murray. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision; I’m ... Read more

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022

To Me, Eugenics Proves That Society Is Inaccessible

SMA News Today Columns

How would you expect someone with a disability to react upon reading an account of a nondisabled man essentially telling a disabled woman she shouldn’t exist? Would you expect them ... Read more

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

Houston, We Have a(n Intersectionality) Problem

SMA News Today Columns

If Broadway’s Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a musical based on my column, the word “value” would be a leitmotif with its own melody. Anyone who reads my column regularly will know ... Read more

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

‘I’m in Love.’ Ain’t That the Worst Thing You Ever Heard?

SMA News Today Columns

Like all young girls, I was part of the target demographic for romance. Disney and Barbie movies, pop music, young adult novels, TV dramas — you get the idea. Romance ... Read more

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Celebrating My First Anniversary of Writing ‘Wandering the Lines’

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

The morning of Dec. 4, 2020, my life changed forever. My best friend, fellow columnist, and work wife, Brianna Albers, burst into our private Discord channel. “YOU SHOULD APPLY,” she ... Read more