I was very clear in my tweet that I never blamed John noble for the joke- he was merely delivering the lines that were written for him. It actually took me a while to even recognize how upset the joke made me. Spending a lifetime of trying to fit in and laugh WITH the white...
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kids instead of being laughed AT was a coping mechanism that followed me into adulthood. But once I *could* articulate how frustrating the joke was, I couldn’t do anything with it- the show was not a safe space for me, literally from my first day on set when I was told I would...
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not be getting rides to work (customary for series regulars) even though all 6 of my other cast members were getting picked up. Producer told me I was wrong, they weren’t getting rides, even though I would watch cast exit the transpo van each morning. Thought I was losing my...
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mind. Begged my agents to believe me, insisted I wasn’t lying, wasn’t sure why I was being singled out. I took an hour and a half subway ride to work every day for weeks, then walked ten min to the studio as the van pulled up next to me, my cast mates in tow. At some point that..
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producer got fired and I started getting rides to work like everyone else, but it just set the stage for being treated differently than everyone else. We had directors (plural) who refused to get my name right. One insisted on referring to me as “you”, “that one” and pointing..
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at me to give me a direction. Another one simply refused to attempt to say my name correctly and called me everything he could think of but ‘Jasika’. It was so bad that josh found a name tag, wrote the phonetic spelling of my name on it, and put it on his shirt, knowing...
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the director would pay attention to HIM, might show me some respect that way. josh was trying to use his power/clout for good. Still didn’t work tho. 5 seasons. No, I never said anything about the joke back then cause I didn’t feel valued enough to think anyone would care.
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Also...the initial spirit of the joke was not lost on me. I understood it as an indicator of Walters mental health, and I even laughed a couple times cause the names WERE funny. I assumed the joke would die out after the first few episodes, as walters hold on reality became...
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less tenuous and he felt more rooted to the present and the ppl in his life. At some point the joke turned away from him being incapable of remembering astrids name to him being fully aware of who she is and just teasing her for fun. THAT part became bullying and racist.
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I'm actually watching reruns of fringe rn and every episode something happens and I'm like "did Jasika feel ok with that or what is a straight up racist moment?"
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yeah me too there's many instances where I'm just like yikes that did not just happen. fringe is a show I watched as an early teen and now watching it as an adult you notice the things that could've been done differently

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