How would you expect someone with a disability to react upon reading an account of a nondisabled man essentially telling…
Sherry Toh
Sherry “Elisa” Toh (she/they) is a journalist who lives in sunny Singapore. Her diagnosis of SMA type II was in 1999 at 13 months old. Kyphoscoliosis and chronic neuropathy later developed as complications. As a hopeless romantic, her loves include fairy tales, tea, and gaming — the last being the primary focus of her work. She has bylines in PCGamesN, NME, and more. In 2023, her essay “Virtual Progress: A Disabled Journalist’s Thoughts on the Video Games Industry” was published in Singapore’s first printed disability studies anthology, “Not Without Us: Perspective on Disabilities and Inclusion in Singapore.” She writes in hopes of offering community and catharsis. Find her @sherlisass on social media.
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Articles by Sherry Toh
If Broadway’s Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a musical based on my column, the word “value” would be a leitmotif with its…
Like all young girls, I was part of the target demographic for romance. Disney and Barbie movies, pop music, young…
The morning of Dec. 4, 2020, my life changed forever. My best friend, fellow columnist, and work wife, Brianna…
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“Lord, what will become of me/ Once I’ve lost my novelty?” was the original lyric sung in Taylor…
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For someone who has watched many a sex scene in movies and television, the sounds were unmistakable, yet unsurprising.
Hear that? It’s the sound of writers across the world readying to drive ourselves crazy in November for National Novel…
At every briefing before their shift, the nurses at my local children’s hospital would glance at me with amusement. As…