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Three Questions with Brian Blanchfield
I uncover here a responsibility I feel—to attempt disinhibition, to include affective knowledge, to be inside the body, to report from a place of personal discomfort or unease. Ursula… More
Ban, Restriction, Whatever!: On Ted Dawe’s Into the River
Long time children's and young adult librarian, judge for children's book awards, Trustee of the Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand, and literary agent Frances Plumpton discusses… More
Gutted: How Kathy Acker’s “Blood and Guts in High School” Saved My Life
This book, this author, this girl body said: Make art. A girl is born and we make a story of her. Daughter. Lover. Wife. Mother. In Kathy Acker’s… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Wed., September 30
Vietnam police detain six over web videos, British journalists face five years in Indonesian jail, and Facebook changes Internet.org name. More
The PEN Ten with Rob Spillman
"I do believe there is a collective purpose to telling the stories that people know to be true, but that they have not yet been able to articulate, or… More
Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” Trilogy and the Preemptive Censorship of Writers of Color
What if the preemptive banning of marginalized writers is just as much a cause of trauma as racist story-telling by powerful white writers? More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Tues., September 29
31 of 32 journalists released in Turkey, Cambodia cracking down on mobile phone and Internet usage, and the U.S. invests millions in Internet freedom technologies. More
Sacrifice and Self-Censorship before Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law
For those of us outside Russia, it’s hard to convey the kind of risk Wilke and her publisher were contemplating. The Putin presidency has committed serious violence—only some of… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Mon., September 28
Israel suspends officer over AFP journalists' assault, Mark Zuckerberg announces project to connect refugee camps, and Serbian journalists are harassed by police. More
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