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PEN America Submits Comment to Florida Board of Governors on Policy that “Will Chill Speech of Faculty and Students”
SB 266 is “contrary to our core First Amendment liberties and values of academic freedom.” More
Open Letter: Iranian Directors Behtash Sanaeeha & Maryam Moghadam Banned From Travel
We call on the Iranian authorities to immediately drop all charges against directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam and to lift their current travel ban. More
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Hosts PEN America and Others for Roundtable on Book Bans
Pressley introduced the Books Save Lives Act, which PEN America welcomes in its efforts to increase access to diverse books and document the negative impact that book banning has… More
Suspensions of Students for Justice in Palestine Chapters Raise Questions and Concerns about Chilled Campus Environments
Student organizations are an important form of expression and association; the bar for a university to suspend or shutter them should be high. More
America’s Censored Classrooms 2023, an introduction by Eduardo Padrón
It has now been three years since a wave of legislative attacks began to sweep American state legislatures – a wave that has never let up. These legislative proposals… More
Protecting the Real Georgian Dream
Georgia’s artists and curators and writers are drawing attention to compromised freedom of expression, shrinking civic space, and erosion of democracy in their country. More
Kimberly Nguyen | Emerging Voices Fellow
I was really interested in the idea that pain and trauma can actually be embedded in the language itself. More
Nathan Go | Emerging Voices Fellow
I feel like we are back to square one. We are back to talking about voices that need to be heard because of all the backlash around diversity. More
Dailihana Alfonseca | 2023 PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner
Believe in yourself enough to bet on your journey as a writer and try not to let the pressures of wanting to publish alter the story you are attempting… More
A Disability Activist Is Asked to Change Her Speech By Boston University Her Response: In Future Speaking Contracts, No Changes will be Allowed
Free speech is for everyone; using accessibility tools to screen speech that could otherwise not be pre-reviewed flies in the face of this principle. More