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PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel Testimony Before Congress on Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development Hearing on “Diversity of Thought: Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses" * Statement of Suzanne Nossel, Chief… More
Twitter Bot Detection Toolkit
We’ve rounded up a few tools to get you started below, all for Twitter, with step-by-step instructions on how to use each. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Monica Youn
The poem doesn’t live for me until it reaches the mind of the reader, as if the poem is a musical composition and the reader is both the musician… More
Chinese Authorities Must Release “Blank Paper” Protesters and Allow Free Expression on COVID-19 Pandemic
We call on the Chinese government to release Cao Zhixin (曹芷馨), Li Siqi (李思琪), Li Yuanjing (李元婧), and Zhai Dengrui (翟登蕊). More
American Council on Education and PEN America Release Resource Guide to Help Higher Education Leaders Defend Academic Freedom
Over the past several years, higher education leaders and free speech advocates have grown increasingly alarmed at the rise of what PEN America calls educational gag orders: legislative restrictions… More
An Open Letter in Solidarity with Ukraine One Year Since Russia’s Invasion
We write to express our collective condemnation of Russia’s multi-pronged war against the Ukrainian people and culture. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with De’Shawn Charles Winslow
I wanted to show what lengths people would go to just to conceal truths: a child’s queerness, an addiction, hypocrisy. More
Educational Censorship Continues: The 2023 Legislative Sessions So Far
The early returns from the 2023 legislative sessions suggest that lawmakers’ fervor to censor and ban content from educational institutions has not abated. Far from it. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Lamya H
Finding queer Muslim community taught me it was possible to live. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Isabel Waidner
Sterling Karat Gold deliberately blurs conventional boundaries between what counts as real and as imagined. More