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Dylan Edwards on “Fun Home”
Fun Home gets banned for the same reasons it resonates: It tells queer people we exist, and that oppression can kill us... More
14 Literary Organizations That Support Writers Who Resist
Globally and nationally, these organizations help raise the voices of marginalized and underrepresented communities, advocate for persecuted and prosecuted writers, and do everything they can to ensure that the… More
A Literary Activist’s Guide to the PEN America Digital Archive
I find archives strangely comforting…they are reminders of what’s recurred and changed, reminders that others were grappling similarly in the past and theirs are the shoulders we stand on. More
New Editors on the Illustrated PEN
By Antonio Aiello We launched the Illustrated PEN in the spring of 2015 with the graphic novel Baddawi, by Chicago-based Palestinian artist and organizer Leila Abdelrazaq. The series aspired to… More
PEN America Continues to Broaden Leadership and Address New Challenges to Expression
UPDATED March 9, 2017 NEW YORK—PEN America has named to its Board of Trustees Lauren Embrey (President and CEO, Embrey Family Foundation), Saeed Jones (Culture Editor, BuzzFeed), Zachary Karabell (author, The Leading Indicators: A… More
A Poet’s Return: Pavel Šrut’s Worm-Eaten Light
"For 10 years after Worm-Eaten Light was banned, Pavel couldn’t write poetry even if he’d wanted to because it had lost its meaning in new reality of normalization. Through… More
Silenced Without Proof: On Soft Censorship
"Since I can’t be the only cultural producer to fail to name the mechanism of their own silencing in the moment, this sets up an interesting possibility: that the… More
Dykes in Print
Graphic artist Jennifer Camper, in a biting new comic, surveys critical reception of lesbians throughout literature. More
The Amazing Adventures of the Censor-Ship!
Make way for the Censor-ship, from which no comic artist is safe! More