Comedy Writing in the Age of Trump—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Members of Samantha Bee's writing team Mathan Erhardt, Ashley Black, and Patrick Cassels discuss comedy writing in the age of Trump. More
Forbidden: Too Punk/Too Queer
Carrie Brownstein and Thomas Meinecke—both musician-authors—discuss what it means to be heard, loudly, in a conversation moderated by Kathy Tu. More
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Songs about 🌈🌈 are in our Top 10*
🌈 Rainbowland by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus was banned from a spring concert set list in Wisconsin.
🌈The Rainbow Connection by the Muppets was banned, too.
😯*most surprising things banned in US schools: https://pen.org/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-song/
Now banned: School board in Hillsborough FL voted today to ban "This Book is Gay". This is after 2 committees reviewed it and voted to keep it in schools. Here's what Juno Dawson told us @PENamerica about efforts to ban the book last fall. /1 https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1640834900684333056?t=Nq5SySk-nlbsC-x3UE6VbA&s=19
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Introducing PEN America's Twitter Bot Detection Toolkit...
We’ve rounded up a few tools to get you started—including @BotSentinel and @OSoMe_IU's Hoaxy and Botomoter—with step-by-step instructions on how to use each. https://pen.org/twitter-bot-detection-toolkit/