Making the Future Illegal

In this episode of The Intentional Spill, Yvette and Frank confront a growing global pattern: the attempt to defang the future by controlling language. Sparked by an expanding list of government-banned words (from equity and race to climate and identity) the conversation explores what happens when imagination, meaning-making, and collective agency are treated as threats . This isn’t a U.S.-only issue, and it isn’t just about words. It’s about how dominant systems preserve themselves by narro...