Posts by: Sherry Toh

For someone who has watched many a sex scene in movies and television, the sounds were unmistakable, yet unsurprising. Netflix’s “The Witcher,” based on a fantasy book series by Polish ... Read more

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

NaNoWriMo 2021: To Write or to Rest?

SMA News Today Columns

Hear that? It’s the sound of writers across the world readying to drive ourselves crazy in November for National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. We’ve got our blankets, a mug ... Read more

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021

When Dentists Are More Magical Than the Tooth Fairy

SMA News Today Columns

At every briefing before their shift, the nurses at my local children’s hospital would glance at me with amusement. As a child, I was often in the hospital for respiratory ... Read more

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

IGDA’s Game Accessibility Conference Was the Experience I Needed

SMA News Today Columns

I was unprepared for the thrill I’d experience when I logged into the instant messaging platform, Discord, and clicked on the server for the two-day Games Accessibility conference. Also known ... Read more

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

‘I Ain’t There Yet, but I’m Healing’

SMA News Today Columns

Humans like to believe that progress is linear. We were in the Dark Ages, then we weren’t. We were largely illiterate, then we read so much we created demand for ... Read more

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021

The Possibility of Radical Accessibility Is Here, as Told Through Lego and Gaming

SMA News Today Columns

“Hey, is that Lego?” my brother asks, a spark of interest in his eyes. He leans over to get a better view of my laptop. He’s 17, but in that ... Read more

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021

For the Love Who Stayed on My Darkest Nights

SMA News Today Columns

After I was hired as a columnist for SMA News Today, a stack of onboarding documents was sent to my email. I spent an entire day reading them and signing ... Read more

August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Justice and Equality for SMA Patients Is Justice and Equality for All

SMA News Today Columns

Every year, at the end of the annual parade on Singapore’s National Day on Aug. 9, Singaporeans across the world place our fists over our hearts in unison. We then ... Read more

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

A Plea for Singapore to Approve SMA Treatments

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

Imagine there’s a Singaporean girl with SMA. She’s exhausted by chronic neuropathy, medication, and feeling like she’s worth less than her able-bodied peers. So exhausted, in fact, she struggles with ... Read more

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

The Friends and Fate I Chose Thanks to ‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

I never planned on writing about video games for my column. But after three columns about four games by two different studios and counting, I thought it’d be fun to ... Read more

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

Disability Representation in BioWare’s Mass Effect Trilogy, Part 2: Demands of Diversity

SMA News Today Columns

Second in a two-part series. Read part one here. “ universe demands diversity.” The quote above is from alien scientist Mordin Solus, who’s a character from Mass Effect, a sci-fi ... Read more

June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

Disability Representation in BioWare’s Mass Effect Trilogy, Part 1: Cause for Hope

COVID-19 Columns, SMA News Today Columns

First in a two-part series. I have never seen sci-fi media portray disabilities as casually as in the original trilogy of Mass Effect, a sci-fi video game series by game ... Read more

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

I Don’t Want a World Without SMA. Here’s Why

SMA News Today Columns

When I was diagnosed with SMA, my parents were confronted with a pivotal choice: stay in Singapore or move the three of us to the U.S., where they’d heard there ... Read more

May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

SMA Is Contributing to My Gender Crisis

SMA News Today Columns

I am giddy with excitement. Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” plays on my iPhone as I begin writing a column about that album and its effect on my life. I know exactly ... Read more

April 28, 2021April 28, 2021

My Coming-of-Age Has Come and Gone: Revisiting Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless’

SMA News Today Columns

On April 9, I traveled back in time. I mean this metaphorically, of course. As much as I wish time travel were feasible in our world, it unfortunately remains the ... Read more