Tiger Heads All the Way Down
“I may not know how to finish but I do know how to start. If I start again and again, maybe my story will be tiger heads all the… More
We Will Emerge: Awareness
These brief essays for “We Will Emerge” envision a society more compassionate and more aware of the experiences that both separate and unite us. More
We Will Emerge: Community and Unity
These submissions for “We Will Emerge” talk of community and unity, expressing a belief that we are all far more deeply connected than we know. More
We Will Emerge: Gratitude and Empathy
This section of “We Will Emerge” contends with the theme of gratitude and empathy, and contributors include Sophia Bush, Hasan Minhaj, and Peter Sagal. More
We Will Emerge
We Will Emerge is a collaborative project bringing together 111 writers, activists, academics, poets, and public servants to imagine a blueprint for a post-COVID America. More
We Will Emerge: Action
These submissions for “We Will Emerge” center on action and look forward to a more politically engaged and equitable society. More
We Will Emerge: Liberation
These contributions for “We Will Emerge” contend with the notion of liberation and imagine a world freed from the shackles of systemic racism and injustice. More
Unwrapping
“Our stories are our gift, and what the Emerging Voices Fellowship does is help people like me, underrepresented people, marginalized people, figure out how to access our stories.” More
Commitment To The Prison Movement Requires Belief In Incarcerated Citizens Capacity To Transform The World
"A commitment that demands belief in the capacity of incarcerated citizens as agents who can transform not only retributive justice into something people oriented, but the world as we… More
Triple Sessions
"I grew up at perhaps the tail end of the “spare the rod, spoil the child” generation, so violence was normalized and mitigated with life lessons." More
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PEN America On 
“#Diversity is demonstrably good for business and only helps employees and teams better empathize with each other and their customers,” says @Honeyfund's @saramarg
PEN America has filed an Amicus brief in her case against Ron DeSantis' “Stop W.O.K.E.” act https://pen.org/pen-america-supports-challenge-to-desantis-stop-woke-law/
Orange County library app ban sets “worrisome precedent.”
"Amid the wave of book bans and educational censorship... there’s a misconception that #California is going to be immune to these forces. Clearly, that’s mistaken," says PEN America's Allison Lee.
https://pen.org/press-release/suspension-of-virtual-library-app-by-cas-orange-unified-school-district-is-an-overreaction-and-sets-a-worrisome-precedent/
“A Florida law signed by DeSantis… is about establishing the idea that books are inherently dangerous objects, to the degree that no student can be allowed to handle one without heavy-handed surveillance,” writes @AmandaMarcotte #FreedomToRead https://www.salon.com/2023/01/25/sorry-twitter-but-floridas-on-books-is-no-joke--ron-desantis-wants-to-keep-kids-from-reading/