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    Tickets are on sale now for - PEN America's premier literary festival in NYC & LA, May 11 - 14! Check out the exciting lineup of conversations, performances, and more: .

    4 days. 70+ writers from 20+ countries. The 2022 PEN World Voices Festival is back in NYC & LA from May 11 - 14! Schedule and tickets OUT NOW: .
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    Congratulations to the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson on her historic confirmation to the Supreme Court! We appreciate the future justice’s commitment to free expression and urge the entire court to robustly defend the First Amendment.

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    Profound coda to the House hearing and new report on sweeping school book banning from : “Books saved my life.” She referred to reading as a young person, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and realizing she was not alone in experiencing abuse.

    NEW. From me and . In a report out today, "Banned in the USA," we analyze the SPATE of book bans in schools in past 9 months. 🧵/1 - 1,500+ bans - 1,100+ unique book titles - 1000 authors, illustrators, translators - 86 districts - 26 states
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    "If we are going to have a conversation about banning books, then I say that conversation is long overdue. Let's have it. But it must include ALL books. If we are going to ban books for being too truthful, than surely we must ban those books that distort, or omit, the truth."

    "The real question is why are we banning ANY BOOKS AT ALL? Surely, we are better than this. We are the United States of America, with freedom of speech." -- Ruby Bridges at today's hearing.
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    Bridges is an American icon-- why would these books not belong in our schools? The truth is there hasn’t been a good reason to ban them. But they’ve been banned by irregular, opaque, biased processes that may violate students’ 1A rights.

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    Third, in TX: THIS IS YOUR TIME by Bridges was on a list to “investigate” in TX schools, put out by a politician. It was pulled from library shelves in North East ISD, just for being on that list.

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    It’s shocking these books were banned. As we discuss in Banned in the USA, out today, the major free speech concern in schools is the way in which books are being banned. Schools are supposed to follow processes, not issue ad hoc bans on lists of books.

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    THE STORY OF RUBY BRIDGES by Robert Coles was on a list of books prohibited in Central York, PA classrooms w/ 400+ other books about POC: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Duke Ellington, Cesar Chavez, Sonia Sotomayor, Nelson Mandela, & Malala Yousafzai.

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    RUBY BRIDGES GOES TO SCHOOL - a kids’ version of her story - was included in a challenge in TN. The book was kept in the curriculum, but the challenge itself speaks to the ways that books about Black historical figures have been targeted across the US.

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    Author and civil rights leader Ruby Bridges is testifying at today’s hearing. Three books about her have been targeted in the spate of book banning in PA, TN, and TX. Two were banned. These 3 books tell us a lot about the current spate of book banning.

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    "...And of course there are the traditional targets that we know of like Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn and George Orwell’s 1984 and so on." Read PEN America's new Index of School Book Bans here: .

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    "...41% of the banned titles had protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color, 22% directly address race and racism, and 33% explicitly address LGBTQ issues. So though that’s not a majority, that’s a lot of where the action is."

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    In this morning's hearing, mentioned PEN America's newly released report, which finds "that from July 1st of last year to March 31st of this year, there were 1,586 book bans that were implemented across 86 school districts in 26 different states."

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    Here's where we stand today with educational gag orders: - 177 bills introduced in 40 states since 2021 - 40% impact higher ed - 15 laws passed in 13 states - 5 laws in 5 states impact higher ed Stay up to date with our Index at the link.

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    Educational gag orders are spreading through the country. Read our detailed report on these legislative restrictions on the freedom to read, learn, and teach:

    in schools include those that: 📖 Discuss racial equity 📖 Have minorities as protagonists 📖 Address LGBTQ+ issues 📖 Have Black or LGBTQ+ authors Do you see the problem? Tune in shortly as investigate:
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    NEW. From me and . In a report out today, "Banned in the USA," we analyze the SPATE of book bans in schools in past 9 months. 🧵/1 - 1,500+ bans - 1,100+ unique book titles - 1000 authors, illustrators, translators - 86 districts - 26 states

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    A new report highlights how wide-spread school book challenges are in today’s censorship-friendly climate. Over 1,145 unique books were targeted between July and March. via

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    ‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,145 books have been banned from US schools in the last nine months alone, according to

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    Conservatives have enacted about 1,600 book bans in school districts over the last 9 months. Texas leads the way with nearly half (713) of the bans, according to via

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    Today, PEN America released an Index of School Book Bans, documenting decisions to ban books in school libraries and classrooms in the United States from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022.

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    We're excited to see more and more readers getting their hands on a copy of THE SENTENCES THAT CREATE US - a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life. Learn more here:

    I cannot wait to get started on this one.
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