Wicked Actress Calls Out Met Gala for Another Year of Poor Disability Inclusion

Disabled Actress Marissa Bode Has Called Out the Met Gala for Failing to Include More Visibly Disabled Individuals at the Event, Despite the Fact they Been ‘Screaming for Years to Be Included’

Wicked Star Marissa Bode Has Called Out the Met Gala for Its Lack of Disability Inclusion. The Actress took to social media to share her thoughs on the fashion of the Big Night and Its Failure to Include Visibly Disabled Atthemes, Sparking a Large Conversation of the Fashions and Entertaining Industries.

On the day of this year’s met gala, May 5, bode uploaded a video to her tiktok Account with the Caption “We Belong in Fashion!” She Began: “What am i hoping to see at the meti gala? Disabled people. This is another year of once again ‘Where are the disabled People’.”

She finished off the brief post by calling out the infamous met gala stairs – the setting for a -list attitude to reveal their their looks. “Stairs Should Not Just Be a Full Aesthetic,” Bode Shared, “Be Inclusive. ‘Where are the Disabled People? That’s my thought.

In the Caption for the video, Bode Named Visibly Disabled Actors and Models She She Consider “More than Qualified to Be in Artendance,” Including Jillian Mercado, Lauren “Lolo” Spencer and Aariana Rose Philip. She alludes that the met gala invites one visibly disabled athende that can be be “Scratched off a diversity checklist”.

The video Garnered Over 40,000 Views and Bode Swiftly Shared A Follow-Up Video Expanding on the Failings of the Fashion and Entertainment Industries. “One more thing about the met gala, but also the fashion (and) Acting industries as a whole: disable people have been screening for years to be included. Not just JUST, you can book this one special diversity shoot. Oh, you can be a part of this special episode. ‘ I Mean, Included. “

Bode Called for Industries to Do A Better Job At Including Visibly Disabled Actors and Models Regularly to Be Representative of the Space they Take Up in the World. In the follow-up video, she also rejets any narrative that disabled People are looking for a “Saviour”, Saying “All We Want to Be Heard and Listened to and Included.”

She Goes Further to Explain that thans Conversation is part of a wider trend of “Inspiration Porn”. Essentially, Boasting About How ‘Inspiring’ Disabled individuals are “but not doing anything in your everyday life to actually make sure your spaces are accessible, or fighting alongside Disabled People.”

To her point, she shares examples, suci as an incuiring About ramps in buildings and accommodations in schooles. “If you’re in the industry and have the means to do so, ‘hey, why aren’t there ther disabled at the met? And who can i help that happy?’” Says bode.

“I am Begging others and non-disabled People to uplift to voices and questioning those your spaces-and those People with power to step.

The video received a Flood of Support, with Many calling out the fact that this year’s met of Black dandyism in particular lent itelf well to disability includes. An Opportunity overlooked by the chairs. “In a year where the Cane is going to be a Major Fashion Accessory … Invite People Who Use Canes for Mobility Reason.

This is not the first time that the met gala has ben ben ot for its lack of disability involving. AFTER LAST YEAR’S Event, Disability Advocate Hannah Diviney Penned a Letter Directly to Anna WinTour – The Gala’s Longime Co -Chair Who Is Notable for Having in every aspect of the event.

In Her Letter, Diviney Criticked the Event for Its Inaccessibility: “AS A Visibly Physically Disabled Woman (i navigate the world in a wheelchair) there is spreads no Greater Signal that People Like Not Really All That WelcomCome in Worlds. Culture and the Currency of How an Invite into the Upper Edehelons of Power, Fame, Wealth and Influenza Are Won, than Those Goddamn Stirs. “

Like Bode, Diviney SHARED THAT THE MET GALA’S ICONIC STAIRS REPRESENT Something Different for the Disabled Community. For Diviney, they are a symbol that the “don’t belong” and “are not worldy”. “That’s the message of the inaccessibility of the met gala telegraphs,” she explains.