Text Messages Reveal How University of Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show

hyperallergic.com: Weeks after the University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly axed an exhibition of works criticizing the treatment of immigrants in the United States, newly obtained internal communications show how university administrators deliberated their controversial action.

Serbian Filmmakers Call Out "State Censorship" in Open Letter

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Serbia’s leading film guilds and professional associations have issued an urgent appeal to the international film community, warning that the country’s cinema sector is facing what they describe as a “complete institutional blockade.”

Judge Kacsmaryk Compares Drag To Blackface, Allows College Campus Drag Ban In Texas

www.erininthemorning.com: On Saturday, Jan. 17, far-right judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued one of his most extreme rulings yet, finding that West Texas A&M can ban drag performances on campus. In reaching that conclusion, Kacsmaryk discarded long-standing First Amendment precedent and made demeaning assertions about drag itself, including a comparison to “blackface.”

Pittsburgh expert recalls new Hollywood free-expression group's roots

90.5 WESA: The relaunch of Hollywood’s 1940s-era Committee for the First Amendment made national headlines in early October. One person thrilled to hear the news was Kathy M. Newman, a professor of English and media studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Newman has studied the original committee, and in fact is writing a book about its long and perhaps surprising artistic legacy.

Pepperdine University Museum Director Resigns After Censorship Scandal

news.artnet.com: Andrea Gyorody, the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, has resigned after an outcry following the school’s censorship of two works in a show there. The exhibition, “Hold My Hand In Yours,” which Gyorody curated, was closed early after the university, in Malibu, California, deemed two artworks to be “political.”

When 'Enough' Is Too Much: Silencing Plays to End Gun Violence in Baton Rouge

www.broadwayworld.com: On Monday evening October 6, more than five dozen theatres, professional and academic, around the US performed Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence, a half-dozen short plays selected from a semi-annual national competition among high school student writers to explore the theme in its title.

Michigan anti-porn bill would criminalize ASMR, written erotica, and nonsexual depictions of trans people

reason.com: An "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" sounds like something out of the Victorian era. But far from the brainchild of Comstock-era Progressive scold, it's a new bill in Michigan. Introduced September 11 by state Rep. Josh Schriver (R–Oxford), the act would ban the online distribution of material "that corrupts the public morals."

The Dramatists Guild Releases Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel

www.broadwayworld.com: The Dramatists Guild has released a statement following ABC's recent decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely. The statement condemns the decision to take Kimmel's talk show off the air, standing in solidarity with him and his writers.