The PEN Pod: On Authoritarianism, Abortion Restrictions, and Protecting the Freedom to Learn
“They are people who deserve our support, who’ve been working as human rights defenders inside their countries, who now are faced with the loss of their livelihood.” More
Protecting the Freedom to Learn: A Banned Books Week Reading List
In this reading list, we’ve chosen to spotlight 10 of the 19 books slated for removal or suspension in the Leander Independent School District in Texas. More
A Texas Book Ban is an Attack on the Freedom to Learn
Months after the Leander Independent School District banned books and graphic novels from its secondary school curriculum, the district released decisions on an additional set of titles. More
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@PENamerica is hosting a series of conversations for @bannedbooksweek on the many threats to speech we face these days. (Thanks to @BradMeltzer for getting MLK's biography and other books back in York, PA schools) https://pen.org/campaign/banned-books-week-2021/?mc_cid=403cc179e2&mc_eid=5b48beaefe
MARTITA, I REMEMBER YOU/MARTITA, TE RECUERDO is Sandra Cisneros’ first published fiction in almost a decade. Check out this @forbes interview with Sandra before joining us for a #PENOutLoud conversation about the new book: https://pen.org/event/pen-out-loud-sandra-cisneros-with-jaime-manrique/ https://bit.ly/3lOhxv9
