When 11-year-old Ethan Fineshriber won at the American Taekwondo Association World Expo recently it caused a flood of newspieces.
This, because Fineshriber is autistic.
Sarah’s none too keen on the “inspiration porn” tone of these stories and she explained why in a post for Fightland.
To read it click here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo addresses students
Influential First Nations film director Alanis Obomsawin followed a nearly decade long discrimination court case between native groups and the Canadian government to create her latest work, We Can’t Make The Same Mistake Twice.
The gets to the heart of the court proceedings to reveal some of the many reasons why First Nations peoples feel they’re not treated like equal citizens in Canada.
I interviewed Obomsawin about this in a feature for Samaritanmag.
To read the full interview go here.
Filed under Films, Politics, Shameless Promotion
Hardcore Henry
Awhile back Sarah reviewed the first-person-shooter-as-movie movie Hardcore Henry for Consequence Of Sound.
She found the film had more value as an experiment than as an actual movie.
To read her review click here.
Filed under Films, Shameless Promotion
Nate Diaz
One of the favourite story devices of Team Risky Fuel is to get actual experts in something to analyze the work of dilettantes and tourists in that field.
In the most recent case, Sarah assembled a team of savvy literary types to look at the sophistication level of the trash talk spouted by pro fighter Nate Diaz.
The results were… illuminating.
To read the full story head over to Fightland by clicking here.
Filed under Comedy, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
Lee Fields
Here’s another batch of video playlists I curated for Ditch TV:
Gary Clark Jr.’s New School Blues
Filed under Comedy, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 