Cancel Culture Database Search by Keyword Target — Book Buildings/Names Curriculum Flag Guest Speaker Honorary Degrees Israel Mascots Miscellaneous Movie Music Painting Police Professor Comments Restaurant Signs Statue Student Comments Student Event Student Groups Theater Confederate? — Yes No Protested / Canceled? — Protested Canceled Clear IncidentSchool NameDateTargetConfederate?Protested/Canceled? Northwestern students cancel their own musical because a character uses the n-wordNorthwestern University03/01/2025TheaterYesCanceled College play about gay interracial love affair canceled after outrage: ‘romanticizes slavery’Santa Monica College11/05/2023TheaterNoCanceled Texas university president cancels drag show, calls it ‘demeaning’ to womenWest Texas A&M University03/24/2023TheaterNoCanceled University cancels black playwright’s play about civil rights movement because it uses n-wordTexas Wesleyan University10/03/2022TheaterNoCanceled ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’ play canceled over culturally accurate casting concernsCal Poly San Luis Obispo10/10/2021TheaterNoCanceled Oldest all-male musical comedy troupe in the U.S. will soon accept students from all gendersUniversity of Pennsylvania10/01/2021TheaterNoCanceled Retroactive cancelation: College apologizes for operetta it staged 11 years ago, deletes old photos of itMuhlenberg College09/14/2021TheaterNoCanceled College yanks student-directed 'The Foreigner' play last minute because it depicts KKKWashington College12/03/2019TheaterYesCanceled College cancels 'Beast Thing' play by black playwright because it might harm black peopleWilliams College12/10/2018TheaterNoCanceled Comedian's routine cutoff after 'offensive' and 'anti-black' jokeColumbia University12/05/2018TheaterNoCanceled University dumps ‘Vagina Monologues’ because it doesn’t include menEastern Michigan University11/14/2018TheaterNoCanceled West Side Story canceled due to perceived incorrect racial castingKent State09/30/2018TheaterNoCanceled Conservative students’ ‘Deplorable Radio’ show remains banned from university airwavesUniversity of Minnesota Morris12/29/2017TheaterNoCanceled Theater department cancels 'The Good Person of Szechwan' play over fear Asian characters may be cast with white actorsKnox College11/10/2017TheaterNoCanceled University cancels play accused of criticizing Black Lives MatterBrandeis University11/01/2017TheaterNoCanceled Students, professor claim officials censored pro-transgender showOklahoma State University02/17/2016TheaterNoCanceled Professor David Hillman fired over phallic props for theater performance of 'Medea'Saint Mary's University12/18/2015TheaterNoCanceled College play 'Jesus in India' canceled because actors are too whiteClarion University11/17/2015TheaterNoCanceled All-female college cancels 'Vagina Monologues' for being too exclusionaryMount Holyoke College01/15/2015TheaterNoCanceled Native American activists get satirical Andrew Jackson musical canceledStanford University11/21/2014TheaterNoCanceled White actresses barred from university’s 'Vagina Monologues'Columbia University10/02/2013TheaterNoCanceled IncidentSchool NameDateTargetConfederate?Protested/Canceled?
