September Bronx Writers Center Dispatch: Orlando Ferrand
Writer, artist, and PEN member Orlando Ferrand reflects on his tumultuous adolescence in Cuba, where politics and sex made uneasy bedfellows. More
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Book bans, protest restrictions, educational gag orders... 2021 has been packed with free expression controversies. Let’s make 2022 the year youth voices fight back! Apply now to PEN America’s 2022 Free Speech Advocacy Institute for students: http://bit.ly/3CCyDSR
This request to remove Robie Harris's 'It's Perfectly Normal' epitomizes where we are in the book ban fight -- the complainant was not even in a parent in the district! Often, these complaints are just being fired off wherever they can be lodged. https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/education/2021/12/01/york-school-department-gets-request-remove-changing-bodies-book/8807003002/
