PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Awardee Oleg Sentsov Turns 41 in Prison
July 13 marks the fourth birthday that Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has spent incarcerated on charges trumped up to silence his opposition to the Russian annexation of Crimea. More
RUSSIA: Conviction of librarian must be quashed
On June 5, 2017, Natalia Sharina, former Director of the state-run Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, was found guilty of "incitement of hatred" towards Russian people and "embezzlement"… More
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Songs about 🌈🌈 are in our Top 10*
🌈 Rainbowland by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus was banned from a spring concert set list in Wisconsin.
🌈The Rainbow Connection by the Muppets was banned, too.
😯*most surprising things banned in US schools: https://pen.org/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-song/
Now banned: School board in Hillsborough FL voted today to ban "This Book is Gay". This is after 2 committees reviewed it and voted to keep it in schools. Here's what Juno Dawson told us @PENamerica about efforts to ban the book last fall. /1 https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1640834900684333056?t=Nq5SySk-nlbsC-x3UE6VbA&s=19
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Introducing PEN America's Twitter Bot Detection Toolkit...
We’ve rounded up a few tools to get you started—including @BotSentinel and @OSoMe_IU's Hoaxy and Botomoter—with step-by-step instructions on how to use each. https://pen.org/twitter-bot-detection-toolkit/