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Ok, YAYYY, the petition got more signatures, WHICH IS AWESOME!! THERE IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE ABLEISM IN RTC!!
Also, idk if it's just a coincidence that they were signed after my post, or if it actually got people's attention, whatever happened, ty, I love you all!!!!
Save Ricky Potts - make acting accessible! PLEASE REBLOG AND SIGN THE PETITION Yannick Robin, the first disabled Ricky was discriminated a
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Yeah, you support #saverickypotts but are you normal about disabled people?
hiiii! did you see the WITW RTC movie? It was cool, but yannick has new stuff out about it that explains the truth more if you wanna know! Idk how to link here? Yannickmirko.com/blog and I think he has a pinned post about it?
https://youtu.be/chOm8dsff8U?si=6fVzSEwbcZ4qct_a
If it doesn’t add here his website and YT is his name I think #saverickypotts
Yes me and some online friends watched it on premier it was great for the most part. There was constant spam every time Elliott Loran’s Ricky came on screen, or anytime information about Corey was shared. The latter being my fault. Also a lot of crying after they explained what La La Love meant. That hit home.
While I enjoyed the first half of the documentary, I did not enjoy the censoring of the information and lack of accountability. I’m very appalled by this, and I think even if you haven’t watched the documentary, you should read the blog post/Youtube video. Fucking disgusting what happened. What’s still happening. Jesus Christ.
Anyways, Yannick Mirko has some very important things to say and I recommend checking it out for sure and reading it for yourself. It goes over things left out and their experience and the invasion of privacy. I’m so glad that they have come out with the truth, but it sucks all of this happened in the first place. Don’t let me summarise it for you, I highly encourage you to go read it. Here’s the blog post.
(Irrelevant but he also has an article on singing on HRT, which has really helped me get over the fear of that stuff. Like, if you’re planning on going on T and are scared of your singing stuff, like I was, please read it. Here’s that one.)
Anyways, they’re really fucking sweet please give them a read or a watch in general! Also since I swore every single post on here would have art attached here’s a quick Ricky sketch! (click fullscreen)
Note: my Ricky isn’t based off a specific actor, but I based some of him off the experience of my best friend, because they went through school using a wheelchair and crutches and are my closest (and dearest) frame of reference. Which we often used to get out of a lot of things because teachers didn’t know shit. (skill issue?)
Also, don’t be scared anonymous, why are you anonymous? I don’t bite, I promise 😇.
Stay safe, folks, sending love.
#saverickypotts
Ride the Cyclone's Ableism Runs so Much Deeper than I Realised
Hi friends! Its been a while since I spoke about Ride the Cyclone, because it was a shitshow and I quite frankly wanted nothing to do with it anymore.
But I am a chronic ruminator, and its midnight and I am currently in a pain flare, so I have found myself ruminating on RTC. In my head, I jokingly introduced Ocean as "Ablest Extraordinaire!" - which led me to realise that while Ocean is the only one who is explicitly ableist, the others are inherently complicit in her ableism, as they stand by and do literally nothing about it. And they were most likely the exact same while they were all alive.
And then I had the realisation:
The choir only deem Ricky worth listening to - his story worthy of being heard - after he is magically cured of his disabilities and is all of a sudden able-bodied. Now that his existence is palatable to the ableds.
Isn't this an amazing message to be sending to disabled kids? (/s) That in order to even be listened to they should suppress their access needs (by ditching the mobility aids and/or forcing themselves to communicate verbally).
And this isn't just a mentality expressed in the show (and by extension, by Jacob Richmond/Brooke Maxwell), it is one that is expressed by the teams that produce this musical. Exhibit A: McCarter theatre. They hire yannick-robin, but try to dictate which mobility aids he uses, and when, in order to try and make his disabilities more palatable to them and their target audience. And the moment yannick experiences a symptom of said disability (*gasp* shocking, I know, that a consistent denial of one's access needs leads to intensified symptoms) that doesn't fit with the carefully curated image of disability they want to portray, they throw him aside and deem him too "inconsistent".
Fucking pathetic, if you ask me.
To any disabled folks reading this:
You deserve to be heard, as you are. Tell your story however the fuck you see fit. You don't need to force yourself to be palatable to the ableds. They need to pull their heads out of their asses and grow the fuck up, quite frankly. And don't let anyone diminish your access needs - you deserve to have equal access in EVERYTHING. I love you all xx
That's all for today :)
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If you’re not familiar with the musical “Ride The Cyclone” and it’s current script situation with one of its main characters, this post is not for you! Thank you!
So I understand the “Ride the Cyclone” Fandom is really upset, including me ESPECIALLY and we all have a right to be, but I think at the same time, we all need to realize these four things regarding the “Ricky Potts script change” situation: Keep in mind I am NOT disabled so I don’t want to speak for anyone else, but I do want to share important things that I think most of the fandom needs to acknowledge:
Despite the change being an unnecessary piss poor decision and a HUGE downgrade compared to what the script was like before, we need to acknowledge that Ricky STILL has a disability. He may not have the same one he had before, but being mute from trauma is in fact a disability. I say this because everyone keeps saying he’s no longer disabled and that’s just not true. Again, it was still a bad change but his disability wasn’t completely erased like everyone keeps saying.
Disability representation in theater and casting more actors with said disability’s is something that NEEDS to be spoken up about, but harassing the creators and actors are NOT the way to do it. If you’re just telling the crew to off themselves and painting them as one note monsters, that is not getting anyone anywhere, and not helping.
Speaking of portraying people as one note, some of y’all honestly need to stop painting Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond (the writers of the original script) as irredeemable monsters. Again, this issue in theater is something that desperately NEEDS to be spoken up about, and voices need to be heard, but as much as I hate to say it, we really DON’T know all the details on why the script was changed. We don’t know what was going through the writers heads, we DON’T know the full story, so seeing everyone say the writers changed it simply because they were ableist and nothing else are just jumping to conclusions way too early. Regardless if you think they’re truly ableist or not, regardless if you’ve lost all respect for them, these writers are still PEOPLE at the end of the day, and people make mistakes. There is always room to grow, there is always room to learn and improve. We need to actually speak up and inform them that this change was not a good one, instead of just screaming at them, sending threats and calling them ableist pieces of shit, something that I’ve seen SO many people do and it’s an issue. It’s hard to actually IMPROVE yourself when everyone is just calling you bad names and not seeing you as a layered person.
At this point of making this post, people really need to stop arguing with Kholby Wardwell (actor for Noel Gruber) on twitter. I don’t care if you like him, I don’t care if you don’t like him……STOP….arguing with him. I shouldn’t say everyone is, but there are a few, and there’s no point guys, stop harassing him. He’s made it clear on how he feels about all of this, and its obvious at this point, nobody can change his mind on his viewpoints. People also need to stop calling him ableist as well, because if you’ve read his twitter thread, you can tell he never had malicious intent. Of course I’m not excusing some of the way he worded or said things, but again, these issues for the RTC crew as a whole need to stop being viewed with a one note lens. While it’s not hard to say “theater needs to hire more disabled actors and make it accessible for them”- it’s ALSO not hard to NOT see everything as black and white, mainly the motivations behind the writers and actors. These are all things that need to coexist within the fandom, and people also need to stop pressuring the others to speak on this subject. Again, when you speak up about an important subject matter like this, doing it with aggression is not the way to go.
With all of that said, this script change has heavily disappointed me, even hurt me. I personally thought it was perfectly okay for Ricky to be a kid who got a degenerate disease at 6 years old and lost his ability to walk and talk, but somehow the writers felt the need to change it. It was unnecessary in my opinion, because I felt like the script wasn’t really the issue, it was casting able bodied actors as disabled characters, and getting rid of Ricky’s crutches five minutes into the show. That, as well as treating his disability as a joke, mainly the comments by Ocean. These were all criticisms the show has gotten over the years, so it hurts to see that what we got was the writers idea of “improving” that. Instead of “improving” it however, it felt more like they erased the issue so they wouldn’t get controversy and could avoid the problem, without putting in the effort. HOWEVER, despite that I don’t truly feel like that was the writers intentions. For now, I’ll give the writers the benefit of the doubt, because I do believe that they truly felt like they were helping and encouraging the disabled community, even if the outcome didn’t turn up that way. Again, we STILL don’t know the full story, so I sincerely hope Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond come out with an official statement soon giving us the full insight to why they did what they did, since the new script has gotten so much backlash. It’s clear this change has done more harm than good, and with respect, I hope the writers can be educated and more open minded to why their idea wasn’t the best at all. I have always praised the writing of this musical, I haven’t been in the fandom that long but it has become one of my current favorite musicals of all time, and Ricky Potts has always been a character I adored, and he deserves SO much better. For all of this to happen because of one huge fuckup, hurts. At the end of the day, we all want the same thing. We all want disabled people to be treated like human beings, with respect, and have more accessibility, not just in theater, but EVERYWHERE. We all have a right to be mad, we all have a right to speak up, and I just hope that as a society we all can educate one another without it being taken too far. I sincerely wish the fandom, the writers, everyone, can bounce back from all of this, and society improves as a whole when it comes to the disabled. I will still continue to enjoy Ride the Cyclone, and watch it over and over because no script change can get in the way of my enjoyment of the show. With that said, things NEED to change, and I especially hope the Mccarter Theater gets the consequences to their horrendous action of illegally firing it’s only disabled actor. With that said, feel free to say your thoughts, feel free to disagree, I just needed to get this all out. Thank you for reading.
hello cyclonists, theatre folks, and those who are generally a fan of being a good person
i wrote a tweet regarding the disgraceful recent rtc script change that erases our dear ricky’s disability and backstory, and the wonderful yannick-robin e. mirko read it. here’s the video and a petition to #saverickypotts. boycott arena and mccarter, bring up this issue if you know of an upcoming production, and keep advocating for better inclusivity and representation everywhere. this isn’t over ♥️🎢
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So. This has recently come to my attention. Here's my thoughts as an actor on the RTC debacle. This is copy/pasted and elaborated on from the "I am signing this because" comment I left on the petition. Note this take also extends to actors with invisible disabilities like Autism or ADHD, of which I am one, hi hello. It is nowhere near as hard to decently accommodate wheelchair-using and otherwise (potentially) disabled actors as folks would have you believe. I was recently in a production of The Wizard of Oz where one of my fellow ensemble members (who is a regular actor at said theater, he's in basically everything) was able to be accommodated for in both costume and blocking with relative ease. This is even accounting for quick-changes, because we did in fact have those! The most trouble I ever saw him have was that it took him a little bit longer than was ideal to get from one wing of the stage to the other through the passage behind the backdrops, but that was far from an uncommon experience for anyone in the cast since it was a fairly tight squeeze what with it being up against the wall at the back of the stage. If you've been in a small theater with this kind of passageway, you know the deal. The actor playing the Cowardly Lion had to leave the stage to vomit a good few times in the middle of a pretty intense dance number during dress rehearsals due to not processing the heat from her (not particularly bulky) costume combined with the stage lights well. I personally am not entirely sure what the full deal there was since, well... I'm not her doctor, but it was functionally making her physically unable to do the full dance number either way. Whether it was just momentarily disabling or was an actual full-on condition, instead of being whiny and shitty about it the folks in charge of the theater worked with her and eventually found a solution that worked so well that she was fine for the entire run of the show and didn't even have to sit down to catch her breath during said dance number. That solution was actually super simple- she worse a sleeveless sweater vest that'd been previously layered on top of another shirt and having an ice pack affixed to her back via some kind of strap-pouch-thing. Simple, easy, and as far as I could tell it didn't cost a cent. This was in a theater that was pretty old and needed renovations despite having already had renovations. I was freezing to death in the men's dressing room and the electrical outlets in the green room ranged for kinda bad to possibly something to actually worry about, but even then they were able to make sure that our physically disabled cast members were just as accommodated for as the physically abled ones. Any and all excuses that Arena Theater and McCarter could give are entirely invalid. It isn't hard to do the bare fucking minimum, ESPECIALLY in a fancy modern theater. @mccartertheatrecenter , DO BETTER. You write a character as physically disabled, cast a physically disabled actor, and then not only toss them to the curb when they have a quick medical complication that is easily resolved and a known symptom of their condition, but decide after that to make the physically disabled character ABLE-BODIED IN A REWRITE. This is not inclusivity. This is not helping. This is frankly a disgrace, and if I sound angry that's because I honestly am angry as well as disappointed. I'd heard about RTC and kinda wanted to see if I could catch a production of it. Now I won't. I know a bunch of other people- many of which have been long-time fans or have been positively impacted by the show in significant ways -won't be going to see it either because of this. The good news is that the only way to go from here's probably up, since this is some bottom-of-the-barrel stuff that's been pulled. Folks who care (or even just want to look like they care, I'm personally not picky), the link to sign a petition to try and help make stuff better is linked below. https://chng.it/PNTkLRkx5F
