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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Azar Nafisi
Do not allow the present moment to control your writing; rather, write to control the seemingly uncontrollable reality. More
PEN Pals: Fatima Shaik Interviews Cheryl Willis Hudson
"We have unique histories, songs, stories, and languages but far too many people refer to us in biased and inaccurate ways." More
Educational Gag Orders Target Speech about LGBTQ+ Identities With New Prohibitions and Punishments
The effort to censor anti-LGBTQ identities in the classroom is expanding rapidly. More
PEN America Free Expression Essay Competition
PEN America's Free Expression Essay Competition invites high school and college students to write essays about threats to free expression. More
Learn More about the Ed Scare
PEN America's Free Expression and Education team is hard at work fighting the "Ed Scare": the educational gag orders, book bans, and "transparency" bills that threaten free expression and… More
Jeremy C. Young
Jeremy C. Young is the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America. In this role, he leads PEN America's efforts to fight government censorship in educational institutions, with… More
The PEN Pod: A Reflection on Free Speech in 2021 with Suzanne Nossel
“Perhaps never before in our public discourse. . . has there been a moment where issues of free expression. . . have been more salient to our politics.” More
The PEN Pod: On Authoritarianism, Abortion Restrictions, and Protecting the Freedom to Learn
“They are people who deserve our support, who’ve been working as human rights defenders inside their countries, who now are faced with the loss of their livelihood.” More
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