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#OnlineAbuse disproportionately impacts women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and religious and ethnic minorities. Join PEN America in demanding social media companies step up and #FightOnlineAbuseNow by signing our petition today: https://bit.ly/2YPEUMU.

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A Turkish court has detained well-known journalist Sedef Kabas for allegedly insulting the country's president. She is accused of targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a proverb which she quoted on live television on an opposition-linked TV channel.https://bbc.in/3IvGYva

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ICYMI: We spoke with Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of MY BROKEN LANGUAGE, about which writers she's most excited by right now, what prompted her to write MY BROKEN LANGUAGE, and more: https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-quiara-alegria-hudes. #PENTen

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