Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
This Fall, artists around the country are activating a nationwide wave of creative resistance. Beginning November 21-22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, theaters, and concert halls across the country will host exhibitions, performances, and public events that channel the urgency of this moment. Fall of Freedom is an open invitation to artists, creators, and communities to take part—and to celebrate the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation.
“Do It Every Morning” by Nellie Wong
Poet/Activist Nellie Wong reads “Do It Every Morning,” from her fifth book of poetry, Nothing Like Freedom, for the Fall of Freedom. 2025 marks Nellie’s 50th anniversary as a published poet.
“Do It Every Morning” is Poem #9 of 9 Poems / Nellie Wong at Ninety, a digital project centered around nine poems, chosen by Nellie.
Nellie’s Fall of Freedom reading video is tagged with the following “banned words” and phrases:
We filmed Nellie’s reading in front of the Burnside Mural and Steps in Glen Park, San Francisco, CA. There, artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher worked with hundreds of friends and neighbors of Glen Park to create hundreds of tiles for the staircase. Elaine Chu and Marina Perez-Wong of the Twin Walls Mural Company envisioned their mural as the water of Islais creek flowing down, a ribbon of blue, from the top of the stairs. The mural records the history and people of Glen Park, from the Ohlone (the land’s original stewards) to Minnie Straub Baxter and the Gum Tree girls who helped preserve and save Glen Park from freeways, as well as the native plants and animals.
A few more “banned words” and phrases:
Visit the Fall of Freedom Resources page to see a growing list of words and phrases compiled by PEN America, 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.”
Jayarathina, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dataworthy Collective Meetup
Friday, November 21, 2025
at 10 AM EST, online
Dataworthy Collective members Margaret Warren and Braeden Doane, along with guest Andi Wong discuss what it means to be knowledge workers building ‘memory infrastructures’ for the future.
What kinds of community memories are important to keep?
What kind of knowledge graphs fill the gaps between Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG) and Enterprise KG’s?
Beyond the kind of personal data (health data and record collections) often associated with PKG’s, there are many communities made up of archive managers, memory keepers and culture bearers who want and need to have tools and support for building knowledge graphs that are not (or cannot be) supported within libraries, museums or other institutions, nor related to a chart of accounts or supply chain in an enterprise.
The Dataworthy Collective is an informal group of thinkers, creators, and practitioners who meet weekly in sessions that can best be described as a collaborative learning environment.
The Collective’s mission is to advance the understanding of data and knowledge by meeting weekly to discuss data literacy, linked data, knowledge graphs, ontology engineering, data curation, content management, and other topics adjacent to knowledge representation and semantic web technologies.
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