$2 Million Gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Supports Emergency and Resilience Funds for Persecuted Artists Worldwide and Immediate Support to Artists in Crisis from the Ukraine War
Julie Trebault, Director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) at PEN America, said: “Over the past two months, we have witnessed devastating attacks on the people of Ukraine… More
PEN America and PEN International Condemn Six-Year Prison Sentence for Cuban Musician Abel Lescay for His Participation in Peaceful Mass Protests Last July
“Abel Lescay is a brave and talented musician who should never have been in jail in the first place. We are horrified by the news that he has received… More
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On #TransDayOfVisibility, we recommend these commonly banned books of trans stories. In national efforts to restrict free speech — books with LGBTQ+ themes and stories with transgender individuals makeup 9% of all banned books. Read a banned book today!
https://pen.org/banned-books-transgender-stories/
In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/uyghur-diaspora-bookstores-istanbul/ @CodaStory
#Türkiye: the case against writer and PEN member Pınar Selek was postponed to 29 September. The court notably asked for her extradition. We continue to call for all charges against Selek to be dropped, and for her judicial harassment to end: https://www.pen-international.org/news/trkiye-end-the-decades-long-judicial-harassment-of-pen-member-pnar-selek