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News Item // Sia’s New Film ‘Music’

Sia’s New Film ‘Music’ Is Harmful To The Autistic Community Sia is well known as an Australian singer. On February 10, 2021 she released her debut movie “Music,” It's about a teenager on the autism spectrum who is named “Music.” Maddie Ziegler, starring in Sia’s music videos, is not autistic. To portray autism on film, she constantly opens her mouth in a caricatured grin and exaggerates her facial expressions in a way that many in the autistic community feel is to mockery. It is no secret that people with disabilities are rarely represented in movies and TV, and when they are, they are overwhelmingly played by non-disabled actors. This is the very definition of false representation, and it can cause very real harm to minority communities.  Another issue that Sia has faced backlash over is the movie’s connection to Autism Speaks, an organization that many have described as a hate group, which advocates for removing autism, curing autism and caring about caregivers of autistic peopl...

Explanation Text // Rainbow

Rainbow Rainbow is a phenomenon caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the Sun. When sunlight encounters a raindrop, part of the light is reflected and the rest enters the raindrop. When this light hits the back of the raindrop, some of it is reflected off the back. When the internally reflected light reaches the surface again, once more some is internally reflected and some is refracted as it exits the drop. And then  the colors blend together creating a rainbow. A rainbow does not exist at one particular location. Many rainbows exist; however, only one can be seen depending on the particular observer's viewpoint as droplets of light illuminated by the sun. All raindrops refract and reflect the sunlight in the same way, but only the light from some raindrops reaches the observer's eye.