A community-based quilt project that we hope to serve as an artistic outlet to express our collective anger and frustration around the silencing of speech, language and ideas, and create greater awareness to encourage action and resistance.

A growing list of words and materials is being scrubbed from government websites and documents and flagged for review by federal agencies in an attempt by the Trump administration to remove all references not only to diversity, equity and inclusion, but also to climate change, vaccines, and a host of other topics.

PEN America initially compiled a list of more than 250 words and phrases reportedly no longer considered acceptable by the Trump administration, from “abortion,” to “women,” and including “disability,” “elderly,” “Native American” and, unsurprisingly, the “Gulf of Mexico.”

The list has now expanded to 370+ words and phrases, encompassing even desirable goals like “safe drinking water,” the mention of which can now result in research grants or other agreements with the federal government getting nixed.

Organized by Lorraine Woodruff-Long and Trisha Hickey.