Personal Censorship can be a tough thing, especially in today's society when anybody and everybody is willing to share their opinion. People often take advantage of their freedom of speech, it is true, but it is still important to be able to share your ideas and values.

Where do you draw the line in schools though?

I found this article which also has links to others about artists censoring themselves.

There was also a short article I found about the artist, Grayson Perry who found himself self- censoring because he feared reprisals.  I had trouble finding another specific artist that used self-censorship but these articles led to many other relevant things.

(2 artists and 1 text resource)

Concepts:

Self censorship by force? Is that self censorship?

-this is the type that I am finding most often, when people have something to say or something they want to make work about but they fear the consequences. I interpret that as a force.

Self- censorship... of yourself?

-when you have values and ideas that you want to share but you think better of it because another side of you feels that it may not be the right time and when is the right time?

EXAMPLE- telling my kindergarten kids about diet coke may not be the best thing to do and I can recognize that, the conversation would eventually lead to cancer and brain lesions and "what's that?" until they go home with nightmares and have panic attacks when anyone they know drinks diet coke. It is bad for you but definitely not worth that.

In the classroom there are both types and I invite you all to post some more things that you can think of that you would keep to yourself, depending on age group or things that you think you are forced to keep to yourself but you don't think you should have to, etc.

Thanks!

~Carly