PEN America Blogs: Free Expressions
Educational Censorship
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Freedom to Read Day of Action 2024: Working Together to Stop Book Bans
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PEN America Endorses the Magna Charta Universitatum 2020
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University of Alabama campuses didn’t have to close their DEI offices. They did anyway.
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“Thank you for not giving up on Florida”: A rallying cry at the Unified Voices Summit in Orlando
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Trouble in Censorville: Teachers Describe Trauma Inflicted in the War on Education
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Jawboning: When Educational Censors Don’t Bother Passing a Law
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What’s going on in Louisiana?
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The Wrong Way to Fight Campus Antisemitism
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A Mississippi Teacher was Terminated for Reading a Book. Time to Reverse that Decision.
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Destabilizing public libraries | Louisiana HB 777
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Government-Mandated Neutrality Is Anything but Neutral
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‘Don’t Display Gay’ and McCarthyism 2.0: Emerging Themes in K-12 Censorship
Banned Books
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The Hidden Cost of Defending Books: Freedom to Read Advocates Speak Out
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Native American Heritage Now: An Interview With Dr. Debbie Reese
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Beyond the Shelves: Three Years of Book Bans and Educational Censorship
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The Censor’s Cut: Ellis Angel Makes Art From Banned Books
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Freedom to Read Day of Action 2024: Working Together to Stop Book Bans
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From Howl to Now: Tracing the History of Censorship
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Book Bans Hit the Big Screen: 6 Documentaries Take on Educational Censorship
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Banned Books Week 2024: PEN America Rallies to Turn the Page on Book Bans
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Craftivisim: In Crafting A Better World, Diana Weymar Shows How Creativity Can Inspire Change
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Memo on School Book Bans from PEN America
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PEN America Free Expression Advocacy Institutes Train the Next Generation
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The State of Book Bans: Utah’s ‘No-Read List’
Disinformation
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For the Texas Tribune, public events help to counteract disinformation
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How did disinformation affect the election? Here’s what a New York Times reporter thinks.
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Lies Hurt Us All: Humanizing Our Response to Disinformation
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Amid election conspiracy theories, a researcher narrows down the biggest threats
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This Arizona election official is worried about political violence. He believes community can be the solution.
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The psychology of belief, and how perceived threats to identity are linked to misinformation
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The anatomy of a disinformation campaign: How falsehoods spread – and how journalists can spot them
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The Wikimedia Foundation’s crucial spot on the frontlines of the disinformation war
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How to Vote and Combat Political Disinformation: A Tip Sheet for Election 2024
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A Guide to Developing a Healthier News Diet
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Political disinformation is everywhere. Here’s what most alarms the experts.
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How climate disinformation plays on fear and confusion, according to a BBC journalist
The PEN Ten
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Fabienne Josaphat | The PEN Ten Interview
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Rita Omokha | The PEN Ten Interview
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Maame Blue | The PEN Ten Interview
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Inês Viegas Oliveira and Rosa Churcher Clarke | The PEN Ten Interview
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Sacha Lamb | The PEN Ten Interview
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Juan Carlos Reyes | The PEN Ten Interview
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Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell | The PEN Ten
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Forrest Gander | The PEN Ten Interview
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Saad Mohseni | The PEN Ten Interview
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2024 Emerging Voices Fellows | The PEN Ten Interview
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Danzy Senna | The PEN Ten Interview
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Dimitri Nasrallah | The PEN Ten Interview
PEN America Speaks
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week of Nov. 30
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week of Nov. 18
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week 0f Nov. 11
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week 0f Nov. 4
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week 0f Oct. 28
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Oct. 21
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Oct. 14
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Oct. 7
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Sept. 30
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Sept. 23
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Sept. 9
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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended And Celebrated Free Expression the Week Of Sept. 2
Facts Forward
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For the Texas Tribune, public events help to counteract disinformation
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How did disinformation affect the election? Here’s what a New York Times reporter thinks.
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Amid election conspiracy theories, a researcher narrows down the biggest threats
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This Arizona election official is worried about political violence. He believes community can be the solution.
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The psychology of belief, and how perceived threats to identity are linked to misinformation
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The Wikimedia Foundation’s crucial spot on the frontlines of the disinformation war
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How climate disinformation plays on fear and confusion, according to a BBC journalist
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A technology and media reporter’s take on left- vs. right-wing misinformation
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7 Top Election Year Disinformation Dangers, According to Experts
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In Arizona, Maritza Félix built an ‘infrastructure for listening’ to tackle misinformation across borders
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Local news is pivotal in the fight to save democracy, expert says
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National security reporter says American journalists could learn from Taiwan when tackling disinformation
Global Free Expression
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In Georgia, Writers Are on the Front Lines
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European Literature Night: Celebrating the Power of Words Across Borders
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Free Narges Coalition and partners urge UN Human Rights Council to intervene for Narges Mohammadi’s urgent medical release
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Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2024: Writing as a Political Act
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Vietnam’s Silenced Writers: The Vietnamese Government Falls Short on Human Rights
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Nightmare in the Caucuses | In Conversation with Two Prominent Georgian Authors: How Cultural Suppression by Georgian Dream Has Pushed the Country to the Brink of Authoritarianism
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Asal Abasian | Exiled Iranian Journalist, Writer, Queer Feminist Activist
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The Power of Women’s Defiance in Iran: ‘We Will Win’
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PEN America’s Russian Independent Media Archive: Preserving Words of Those Who Can’t Speak
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The Fighters Who Narrate: Iranian Writer Sepideh Rashnu on the Eve of Her Incarceration
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Pham Doan Trang: A Courageous Voice for Change
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Joint Oral Statement on the Outcomes of the Cuban States’s Universal Periodic Review