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The Florida and California Effects
Ahead of 2024, Two Bellwether States, California and Florida, Are Establishing Laws and Policies That May Affect All Americans’ Free Expression Across the U.S., state legislatures are increasingly the agents… More
The Topics Teachers Are Too Afraid to Teach
Frederick Douglass, women’s suffrage, jazz and the blues, Batman, reproductive biology, philosophy. In states with restrictive educational policies, teachers and professors have questioned if they are allowed to teach… More
PEN America Names Katie Blankenship to New Position as Florida Director
“Katie is the proven leader and advocate we need to expand our effort to protect the freedoms to read and learn in Florida,” said PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel.… More
Katie Blankenship
Katie Blankenship is the inaugural director of PEN America's new Florida office. She oversees advocacy in defense of free expression, including strategies for educating and empowering writers and other… More
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of November 6
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More
New Report: Legislatures Introduce 110 Educational Gag Orders in 2023
“Censorship advocates have spent years trying to sabotage the teaching of ideas they don't like, and imposing their own views on our nation's students,” said PEN America’s Jeremy C.… More
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of October 23
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More
PEN America Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Record (Update Oct 16, 2023)
PEN America submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on Civil and Political Rights, criticizing the human rights record of the United States on free expression, discrimination, and… More
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of October 2
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More