Historically marginalized
disability biased –
a privileged minority
Women’s inequality
socioeconomic –
oppression excluded
Cultural relevance
underrepresented –
diversity victim
Ethnicity, gender (female)
sense of belonging –
male-domination systemic
Indigenous community
institutional trauma –
polarization hate speech
Advocacy banned
(Every word in this poem, except banned, is from the list of words forbidden in research proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation (USA) as mandated by the current government.)
Image my own.
One Woman's Quest II 
That is a shocking fact. I love your poetry protest👌🏼
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Isn’t it shocking! Freedoms are quickly disappearing
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Yes, and how much it’s becoming normalised too! I’m so glad for the protests.
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Wow! This is a shocker! Things seem to be going from bad to worse. Makes my stomach churn. Thanks for sharing this. I’ll pass it on to others.
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Stomach churning for sure. Stripping everyone of their rights
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I’m shocked! Do they think banning these words will make what they stand for disappear? Tis a crazy world in which we live.
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It’s worse than crazy. It’s dangerous unfortunately
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I agree, VJ.
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The NY Times published a list of banned words for government documents, but although female was on it, male wasn’t. That made my jaw drop. I guess in government you can be male, but in science neither male nor female exist. Is this real? (K)
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Male is okay, just not male-domination. It’s too woke, I guess
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Isn’t it crazy? Someone should yell “forbidden” every time Trump or one of his minions use one of those words. I’d like to see that.
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Yes!
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Whatever happened to our First Amendment? Sigh. I thought libraries were above this sort of censorship. I requested a book through Inter-library loan that happened to be published by Trans-Allegheny Books. It was rejected until I removed “trans.” Seriously?!
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Yes. I saw yesterday that they have a task force assigned to removing all materials containing any reference to trans or LGBTQ. Even if there is no connection.
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I read about these words being banned. I can’t help thinking it is the beginning of the end for free speech.
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And human rights…
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Absolutely crazy!
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Yes. It’s criminal.
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I’m shocked. I shouldn’t be but I am. So if you ban the words, what they represent will just magically disappear?
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I love that you did this, VJ….as much as I also hate it, too. Every day I’m receiving insane lists of new verboten words from various advocacy groups expressing shock. Unbelievable. 😔
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Shock is a good word to describe it. What the heck?
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With you — and I’m glad to see you spreading the news. People need to know. 💔
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What a sad state of affairs.
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Sure is.
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🥲🥲🥲
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