The film Sia, Music, continues to be backed up as a new petition receives 57,000 signatures

A new petition calling on the Golden Globes to remove the two nominations given to the controversial new film Sia, to date, has earned more than 57,000 names.

The film has gone against a heavy backdrop on how it displays autism, and a new Change.org petition is now urging the entertainment industry to stand up for it.

The Sia debut film “Music” is very capable and contributes to harmful stereotypes of autistic people, ’read the petition. The Golden Globes have to postpone their two nominations for “Best Music / Comedy” and “Best Musical Actor / Comedy: Kate Hudson”, and the entertainment industry must pledge to actively work towards -improved occupancy and disability representation. ‘

The authors of the petition also state that the film is inaccessible to those with autism due to the ‘strobing lights, loud noises, and fast camera movements’, despite Sia’s previous decision that the film was love letter to the autism community. ‘

‘About 1 in 4 people have epilepsy, so the film can cause seizures and is very uncomfortable for those without it. Despite making the film “for” autistic people, Sia is made in a way that most of us will not be able to watch, ’read the petition, titled‘ The Golden Globes Must Rescind the Nomination for Sia’s Ableist Movie ”Music” ‘.

Maddie Ziegler plays an autistic teenager in the film, and the petition states that autistic actors were neglected for the part she eventually landed.

Second, very autistic people were not noticed in the throwing process when the neurotypical Sia Maddie Ziegler threw the autistic character, playing “Music” because she cannot “do a project without“ i, ”read the petition.

‘To make matters worse, Ziegler learned how to “be autistic” by watching videos of autistic children getting meltdowns uploaded to YouTube by their parents without their permission,’ the petition contributes.

The petition also raises questions about Sia’s response to disability activists across her film.

‘Opposing reasonable criticism, Sia decided to personally attack members of the community eg when she replied: “you may just be a bad actor” to one autistic person who expressed their ability and the desire to be involved in her film.

Moreover, Sia says she studied autism for years, but the fact that she collaborated with Autism Speaks, which is easily identified as a hate group that promotes eugenics, is a testament to it. on the seriousness of her lies. She refused to apologize and did so only after receiving the nominations out of a boycott fear, which is exactly what we urge you all to do. ‘

The petition also addresses how restrictions are seen in the film, which Sia previously said she would remove.

Six apologized after the criticism, and promised to send a warning to the film saying the film ‘does not condones or suggests that autistic people be banned. ‘

But the petition states ‘the obstructing scenes are NOT to be removed and there are no warnings in the film.’

The musical Music was released earlier this month, and received not only widespread criticism from the autism community, but negative reviews.

However, the film received two Golden Globe nominations – one for Best Motion Picture – Music or Comedy, and another for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Kate.

Kate plays a drug dealer who has just become the protector of her autistic half-sister Music (Maddie) following the death of her grandmother.

Zu (Kate) struggles to pay attention to Music, but gets help from their neighbor Ebo (Leslie Odom Jr.).