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PEN America/PEN International: Chinese Authorities Should Immediately Release Blogger Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2023

“The seven-year prison sentence handed down to Ruan Xiaohuan for his politics and technology blog is an outrage. Blogging is not a crime and the heavy prison sentence on… More

PEN America, With Other Free Speech Organizations, Sends Letter to Congress Opposing Proposed National TikTok Ban

Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2023

The letter reads in part: “We recognize the grave concerns that TikTok and other social media platforms pose for the privacy of individual users. We are also aware and… More

PEN America and Amani: Africa Creative Defence Network Call on Ugandan President to Veto Anti-LGBTQI Rights Law, Condemning it as a Serious Strike Against Free Expression

Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2023

“We have seen a troubling rise in cases of Ugandan artists and cultural professionals who have been arrested merely on the grounds of telling the stories of LGBTQI+ communities… More

Oklahoma teacher is still fighting book bans, now from Brooklyn

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Summer Boismier lost her job after she gave students a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned project. Now she’s helping teens fight book bans. More

National Organizations Condemn Cancellation of Student Play at Douglas Anderson School of Performing Arts in Duval County, FL

Press ReleaseJanuary 10, 2023

“Indecent is a critically acclaimed and award-winning 2015 play by Paula Vogel that possesses rich educational and artistic merit. It has been produced Off-Broadway, on Broadway, and has been broadcast… More

PEN America Condemns “Alarming Spread” of Violence and Harassment Against Drag Story Hours

Press ReleaseDecember 23, 2022

"These violent responses to drag performers and members of the LGBTQ+ community strike at the heart of the freedom to gather, read, perform, and share community safely, all bedrocks… More

New Report: Troubling Rise in Restrictions on Artistic Freedom and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

Press ReleaseDecember 15, 2022

“In the last few years, political and social tensions have risen dramatically in Latin America and the Caribbean amid the confluence of  grave crises and dramatic changes. Authoritarian governments… More

Florida Adopts Even More Punitive Provisions Against Teachers and Students To Implement New Controversial Education Laws

Press ReleaseOctober 24, 2022

(NEW YORK)-- A new set of rules passed by the Florida Board of Education to implement controversial laws like the “Don’t Say Gay” and “Stop W.O.K.E” acts are “alarming”… More

New PEN America Report: Deep and Persistent Obstacles in Publishing Houses Impede Greater Diversity in Terms of Authors and Stories Told

Press ReleaseOctober 21, 2022

“Publishers are the curators of America’s stories,” said Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, chief program officer for PEN America’s Literary Programs.  “They are gatekeepers who decide whose stories will be told… More

PEN America Condemns Transfer of Vietnamese Writer Pham Doan Trang to Remote Prison

Press ReleaseOctober 12, 2022

“From Pham Doan Trang’s lengthy incommunicado detention to the wholly disproportionate and unjustified sentence of nine years in prison handed down in her case last year, it comes as… More

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As @JoyVBehar points out, Americans' knowledge of the Holocaust is declining even as the movement to ban books—including #Holocaust-themed works such as @jodipicoult's The Storyteller—is accelerating.

Behar also gives a shoutout to 100-year-old Grace Linn! #JoysBannedBookClub https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1639315584860192772

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jeremycyoung Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung ·
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Outstanding piece by @andreacgore, Vacek Chair in pharmacology/professor of psychology at UT-Austin, defending faculty tenure against SB 18. She argues that immunotherapy would not exist if UT-Austin had not given tenure to its discoverer. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/university-texas-andrea-gore-professor-tenure-17816783.php

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bryanalexander Bryan Alexander @bryanalexander ·
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What does academic freedom mean now, and how might it change?

Here's our whole Future Trends Forum conversation with @ACEducation and @PENamerica researchers:

https://youtu.be/nQ8Kl0XJIr0

#FTTE
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