Ninjas!
In what must have made for one of the best want ads ever, the Aichi prefecture, located in Japan’s central Honshu Island recently looked to hire six ninjas to work in their developing “warrior tourism” industry.
It’s unclear if these ninjas ever got hired, because if they were doing their job right you’d never see them and would therefore never know.
To read Sarah’s story about it for Asian World Of Martial Arts go here.
Filed under Culture, Shameless Promotion, Travel
Thunderbirds
Gerry Anderson’s signature supermarionation series’ like Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons were much more than just puppet shows for kids.
If you look closely there was a whole lot of Cold War anxiety woven into the various series he made.
Sarah wrote about this “puppet state” for The A.V. Club.
To read the full feature go here.
Filed under Culture, Politics, Shameless Promotion, Television
The month of April was Autism Acceptance Month, a counter-movement against the cure-focused Light It Up Blue campaigns.
As such, Sarah wrote an explainer for The Establishment about how autism awareness goes wrong.
To read the full story, go here.
Filed under Culture, Health, Shameless Promotion
The spectrum
When Sarah occasionally writes about her autistic experiences for various publications there’s usually a virulent response, almost always from the parents of an autistic child, who tries to shout her down by saying she’s a) not autistic enough, so her opinion doesn’t count, or b) glamorizing the whole thing.
This is not true.
She explained why in a piece she wrote for The Establishment.
To read it click here.
Filed under Culture, Health, Shameless Promotion
Holly Holm
Holly Holm may have lost the UFC Women’s Bantamweight title belt in her first title defense at UFC 196 this past weekend, but in the lead up to the event she presented a master class in how to navigate awkward media encounters and the peculiar societal expectations and scrutiny that high profile female athletes — especially ones connected to the aggro dude world of mixed martial arts — face.
Sarah wrote about Holm’s conduct for Fightland.
To read the full story click here.
Filed under Culture, Jock Stuff, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 