Making the Future Illegal

About this episode

Yvette and Frank discuss the implications of government-banned words and the control of language on the future.

In this episode of The Intentional Spill, Yvette and Frank confront a growing global pattern: the attempt to defang the future by controlling language. Sparked by an expanding list of government-banned words (from equity and race to climate and identity) the conversation explores what happens when imagination, meaning-making, and collective agency are treated as threats . This isn’t a U.S.-only issue, and it isn’t just about words. It’s about how dominant systems preserve themselves by narro...

People in this episode

Hosts: Yvette, Frank

Topics covered

• language control
• government censorship
• collective agency
• imagination
• dominant systems

Keywords

• language
• censorship
• equity
• climate
• identity
• imagination
• agency

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Organizations: The Intentional Spill

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