The world is a bit of a mess right now. It's been that way for a while, and it's only getting worse. Fascism, genocide, capitalism and all its associated violence are everyday occurrences and the powers that be want us to doom-scroll and guzzle AI slop and nothing else. They don't want you to think. They don't want you to fight. That's what this jam is for: to get you to do something. 

Censor This! is a non-ranked jam for analogue and narrative-based work. Feel free to get experimental. Show us your TTRPGs, LARPs, and zines, your narrative doodles and manifestos, your unplayable games,  your ashcan versions and your polished magnum opus. The main purpose of this jam is to tackle and overcome censorship (both self-censorship and censorship by others). 

Censor This! is a safe space for self expression and anti-establishment sentiments. But make no mistake, there are rules. If you break them, your work will be removed. This jam was originally conceived in July 2025 when itch.io unlisted NSFW content due to pressure group Collective Shout and some itch.io pages were rendered entirely inaccessible in the UK due to the Online Safety Act. More recently, state and media censorship has become more rampant: this jam is about shouting loud about these subjects and is not a free pass to be an abhorrent arsehole. 

DO: explore themes of queerness, race, disability, national identity, politics (everything is political), war and oppression, sex, resistance, liberation, mutual aid, community building, unlearning harmful systems and building new ones, rage, hope and joy, censorship itself. Be experimental and allow yourself to make 'bad' art (whatever the hell that even means!). 

DON'T: use AI at any stage of creation, be a hateful bigot, create predatory work that feed or support oppressive systems (creators of shit like No Mercy can die in a hole, thanks). 

Censor This! is anti-apartheid, anti-fascist, anti-genocide and anti-censorship. We are anti-AI. We are not a safe space to be bigoted, hateful or needlessly edgy (hope and joy are radical). And we are certainly not a place to post harmful (exploitative or predatory) content in the name of art; the 'you're not allowed to joke about anything nowadays' crowd is not welcome here. We support queer, BIPOC, disabled and otherwise marginalised artists. We accept NSFW work. We support unheard artists, artists that create to support others, and artists that actually make their own art, however ugly it may be.

All we ask is that, as part of you work, you share with us why your work belongs in this space. Are you a marginalised creator? Is your work about life as a citizen of a country caught in the sights of empire, or already suffering under its rule? Do you have something radical to say? We want to know the politics behind your work (because everything, including gaming, is political!). It can be a few words or a whole essay. You can add it in the form during submission, include it within the work, or as a supplementary commentary on the work page. 

We invite you to interpret our prompts however you like; everybody experiences (or doesn't experience) censorship in different ways and we want creators to lean into that. Here is an assortment of prompts, resources and rogue ideas that might help to get your creative juices following:

• Donald Trump's (ever-growing) list of banned words
• Try to get yourself blocked in the UK under the Online Safety Act (some of you already are...)
• Write a work informed by Urgentcraft by Paul Soulellis or another artistic manifesto (consider this list, Kay Marlowe Allen's A Cozypunk Manifesto,  or any one of the submissions of the many manifesto jams: Manifesto Jam, Manifesto Jam 2022, or The TTRPG Manifesto Jam). OR, write your own manifesto!
• Write a work designed to uplift the voices and/or materially aid marginalised and oppressed people
• Utilise the Simple Sabotage Field Manual
• Keep your work free and/or offer community copies free or charge
• Silence those who speak loudest
• Ruin something that They™  love (ie. 'how can I make golf radical and gay?')
• Imagine a utopia that is a post-capitalist, post-need paradise: consider reading 17776: What football will look like in the future (I fucking love this thing!)