Artist-turned-activist Melissa Etheridge sits down for an episode of “Free Speech + Other Dirty Words,” the provocative and engaging new video series created by legendary media brand SPIN and FIRE.
Idaho's Lewis-Clark State College ordered the curator of an art exhibit on public health issues to remove works — including some of the curator’s own — from the exhibit, citing a state anti-abortion law.
R.L. Stine, the author of the wildly popular children’s horror series Goosebumps, is the latest in a growing list of writers who have had their work edited after the fact.
The State College of Florida Bradenton requested a traveling art exhibition to remove pieces with the words “diversity,” “inclusion,” “justice,” and “equality."
We should teach children that you can learn something new about people who lived in the past each time you read an older book. Sanitizing books like Roald Dahl’s classics to meet “modern sensibilities” is not the answer.
Minnesota’s Macalester College is mired in a dispute over artistic imagery and religious offense, complete with a “content warning” and black curtains temporarily censoring artwork.
Today, FIRE kicks off a two-day mobile billboard campaign in Saint Paul, Minn., that will circle the campus of Hamline University on the opening days of the spring semester.
Moves by Indiegogo, Kickstarter, and Crowdfundr to restrict access to their platforms based on protected speech are a worrying sign for free speech culture.