If you opened Twitter today, you may have noticed that singer-songwriter Sia is in the center of controversy involving her upcoming movie, Music.
The trailer for the film dropped yesterday, and it shows Maddie Ziegler playing a nonverbal autistic girl named Music.
After the trailerโs release, the film itself was met with various criticisms. A big one is that the movie cast Maddie Ziegler as its lead:
To which Sia said that she did try to work with a nonverbal girl and did cast some neuroatypical people:
But of course, these tweets sparked a ton of discourse in and of themself:
Another criticism was what we saw of the movie itself โ which some called outdated:
As well as not accessible:
Then, there was the involvement of the group Autism Speaks in the movie:
FYI, Autism Speaks is incredibly controversial โย from the way they speak about autism to the way they spend their money.