PEN America Welcomes Ruling to Revise Book Restriction Policies in Arizona Prisons
"The ruling out of Arizona is a significant step forward for the First Amendment and for our fight for access to literature in sites of incarceration." More
DARE: Migrant Children Are Suffering at the Border. But Reporters Are Kept Away from the Story.
As second-hand reports emerge of inhumane conditions at detention facilities for migrants, limits on access to members of the press come under scrutiny... More
DARE: Cyberattack Disrupts Printing of Major U.S. Newspapers
Netflix deletes an episode of 'Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj' after Saudi Arabia complains. Publisher says cyberattack caused printing and distribution... More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
President Trump's crude and sexist Twitter insults against TV news commentators raise again questions about the content and contours of presidential speech. Responding, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough say… More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., April 8
Gao Yu hospitalized after raid on home, Gag laws anger Chilean journalists, Bangladesh students protest government inaction over blogger's murder. More
Five Poems by Hannah Ensor
There was a CFP / about vulva-touching / I responded / I said I am currently / touching my vulva / I was accepted / to the conference /… More
A Song Called Shudder
Whose passions but your own startled you / yelling up to a window at night / for a love to come to the glass / & down the stairs?… More
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On #thePENpod, we check in with @KarenAttiah, journalist & global opinions editor at @washingtonpost. She reflects on the intersecting political crises of #COVID19 and state-sanctioned violence, and urges us to turn the lens of criticism inward. LISTEN 🎧: https://bit.ly/2XrPO8m
"I think what a lot of us are feeling and saying—particularly Black women—it’s just the feeling of like, 'We warned y’all. We told y’all.'" @KarenAttiah on today's #thePENpod https://pen.org/the-pen-pod-karen-attiah/