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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Elected officials continue to throw their weight behind book banning, supporting or passing new laws OR by doing stuff like this: sending letters and investigating school-level decisions. Glad the superintendent plans to uphold the choice to keep the book. https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/03/floridas-house-speaker-intervenes-hillsborough-school-book-challenge/
"Parents trust me with the safety and well-being of their most valuable possession every day... I’m furious that there has been talk of putting guns in teachers’ hands, but I’m not trusted enough to put a book in a child’s hand"—#Florida teacher Andrea Phillips in @Independent
"'Critical race theory' (CRT) is not so much a theory as it is a periodizing frame for our historical moment. It is the common sense of our times," wrote @PulitzerPrizes-winning poet Gregory @Pardlo for PEN America in 2021 https://pen.org/notes-on-critical-race-theory/ #CRT #BlackHistoryMonth