Alex Tripp

she/her. Experienced Support Worker 🤝. Passion for FASD Awareness and Advocacy 💬. Sharing knowledge, breaking down stigmas 📢. Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦.

[Alex Tripp @alexTFASD]

🚫 RE: SNL’s “Winter Formal” Episode 🚫

[Nicole Kurtman @nicolekurtman]

My 8 year old daughter is already learning to be a fierce advocate for others and wanted her voice to be heard regarding the distasteful skit SNL did last weekend about those living with the effects of FASD. Such a proud Mama. Do better @nbcsnl

[yvonne @oursacredbreath]

Advocating can feel like an uphill battle. It is disheartening when media perpetuates stigma, stereotypes, & misinformation that causes harm. @nbcsnl please learn about FASD so dehumanizing and traumatizing content like this is not broadcast to millions of viewers again. #fasd

[Nine Months Matter @9MonthsMatter]

Ableism is never funny, @nbcsnl. Last weekend's skit was harmful and only added to the stigma against those with #FASD. Learn more about prenatal alcohol exposure from our team at @UCSDcbb https://t.co/q6nc6vPmyl. #DisabilityIsNotAJoke

[Kristen Howerton @kristenhowerton]

This week an @nbcsnl skit relentlessly mocked an awkward teen boy. The punchline? He had fetal alcohol syndrome. Is it appropriate to shame people w/ autism? Down Syndrome? Other disabilites? No. Not ok with #FASD either. @notbenmarshall @JawnHiggins @martinmherlihy @SarahSquirm

[Health Nexus @Health_Nexus]

A few days ago, @nbcsnl depicted stigmatizing representations of a family with FASD in one of its sketches. Health Nexus stands with @CanFASD and others rejecting SNL’s portrayals. Read our full statement here: https://t.co/zxbpWdXn2u
@CBC

[Proof Alliance @Proof_Alliance]

PLEASE AMPLIFY 🙌 We are asking @nbcsnl to please listen to people impacted by #FASD who are speaking out about their Winter Formal skit. We are asking them to give our community the dignity of being heard and acknowledged.
@DrJenLincoln @DrJenGunter @DrLeslie_MD @SFdirewolf

[CTV Ottawa @ctvottawa]

Carter is all of us.

Toronto boy goes viral after hilarious reaction to shovelling snow
https://t.co/StOElEA23v

[FASD United (formerly NOFAS) @FASDUnited]

We have an important update regarding the recent SNL skit ridiculing a character for having prenatal alcohol exposure, which we, along with many of you have spoken out against. 🧵#FASDisnotapunchline #FASD

[Alex Tripp @alexTFASD]

A #TuesdayTip, from me to you!

#FASD #developmentaldisabilities #neurodivergent #parentingtips

[Alex Tripp @alexTFASD]

@nbcsnl

[Alex Tripp @alexTFASD]

@NBCNews @nbcsnl @SarahSquirm

[Alex Tripp @alexTFASD]

🚫 RE: SNL’s “Winter Formal” Episode 🚫

[FASD Warrior Mum 🤰🚫🥂🌊💙 @AngeleneBruce]

An excellent thread 🧵. I am so angry with @nbcsnl for this. Would you dare make an autistic child the butt of a “ joke ”? Sunday night on @theprojecttv, I shared my story about #FASD and my child appeared too. Then #SNL does this 👇😡🤬. This is highly offensive. #FASD #BeBetter

[The Project @theprojecttv]

Despite all the warnings, more than 50% of women still consume alcohol during pregnancy. Health experts warn it’s causing a hidden epidemic in children.
#TheProjectTV

[CFAN @CalgaryFASD]

Piece by Australian TV show @theprojecttv about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Contact us at [email protected] for FASD support, info & education in #yyc and area. #FASD #yycFASD

[fasdhope @fasdhope]

Thank you, @FASDChangeMakrs for this perfect statement about the #dehumanizing skit by @nbcsnl! A feeble attempt at comedy, at the expense of individuals with #FASD is an #injustice! #fasdisnotapunchline #ableism #dobettersnl
@SarahSquirm @petedavidsonSNL @andrew_vinny @nbc

[Proof Alliance @Proof_Alliance]

Sorry @SarahSquirm, @notbenmarshall, @JawnHiggins & @martinmherlihy - your @nbcsnl skit isn't funny at all.

Drinking during pregnancy isn't funny. Brain injury from prenatal alcohol exposure isn't funny.

#FASD, a lifelong and irreversible #disability, isn't funny.

[Кутрина Шумук 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @ProzacKat]

I challenge @nbcsnl and all of the actors on that skit to spend a 24 hour period with a family who has a child with. #fasd see how what that short joke effected us all. Also your actors to read the report by @RCYBC on how kids with FASD are left out of help/service. 1 in 20

[Кутрина Шумук 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 @ProzacKat]

So true! #fasd is not an alcoholics only issue. It’s an everyone with a uterus issue. For me I was told by a fertility expert I don’t ovulate after 5 years failed fertility treatment. I somehow got pregnant, but socially drank till 8 weeks when I found out and stopped. @nbcsnl

[Inspire Kids FASD @FasdKids]

Can you imagine @nbcsnl writing and performing a skit where the punchline, after degrading a young adult with challenge after challenge, was that the child they were joking about was #autistic?

Neither can we.

What a shameful display of ignorance and derogatory ableism. #FASD

[Trying to dodge the plague. @Celestriad]

So. @nbcsnl thought it was great fun to air a sketch where a key theme in the gag was that the person had #FASD

This skit was pitched. It was edited and vetted. And they all let it pass.

I’m done with SNL. That’s my kid’s brain injury you want people laughing at @nbc .