{"id":36003,"date":"2025-03-14T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/creating-art-under-trump-will-become-harder-but-it-will-remain-vital-seph-rodney\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:04:58","slug":"creating-art-under-trump-will-become-harder-but-it-will-remain-vital-seph-rodney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/creating-art-under-trump-will-become-harder-but-it-will-remain-vital-seph-rodney\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s attacks on diversity and immigration have already affected many artists and will affect many more in the coming months<\/p>\n<p>One of the most pernicious effects of a bully\u2019s intimidation is making victims afraid of being true to themselves, because it\u2019s the essential and authentic parts of them that incite the bully\u2019s contempt.<\/p>\n<p>During his first week in office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> issued a blitzkrieg of executive orders. Among them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity\/\">Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/01\/29\/2025-01953\/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing\">Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing<\/a>.\u201d According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/civilrights.org\/resource\/anti-deia-eos\/\">Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights<\/a>, among the things these orders direct the administration\u2019s agencies and staff to do are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Terminate diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, positions, and programs in the federal government; terminate equity-related grants and contracts; and repeal prior executive orders designed to ensure equal opportunity in the workplace, including a decades-old executive order from the Johnson Administration &#8230;<\/em><em> \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/mar\/14\/creating-art-under-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s attacks on diversity and immigration have already affected many artists and will affect many more in the coming months One of the most pernicious effects of a bully\u2019s intimidation is making victims afraid of being true to themselves, because it\u2019s the essential and authentic parts of them that incite the bully\u2019s contempt. During &#8230; <a title=\"Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/creating-art-under-trump-will-become-harder-but-it-will-remain-vital-seph-rodney\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}