Reporting Online Harassment Shouldn’t Be This Hard
Reporting harassment on social media platforms is "often profoundly confusing, time-consuming, frustrating, and disappointing" and threatens free expression in many ways, according to Shouting Into the Void, our latest report with Meedan. The research includes recommendations for fixing reporting mechanisms to fight harassment.
Two years after a day of peaceful demonstrations in Cuba and the swift government crackdown that ensued, at least 10 artists remain in detention while 13 others were forced into exile. A new report from our Artists at Risk Connection done in collaboration with PEN International and Cubalex, shares the testimonies of 17 exiled artists, documenting the repressive and sometimes violent tactics employed by the Cuban state to force them out of the country.
Over the past year, we worked with communities in Texas, Florida, and Arizona to better understand and address the corrosive effects of disinformation. In our new report, Building Resilience, we reflect on effective strategies developed by local journalists, community leaders, and others to defend against the spread of disinformation.
There’s still time (until August 1) to submit an entry to the 2024 PEN America Literary Awards. Since 1963, we have honored outstanding voices in translation, fiction, poetry, science writing, essay, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, and drama. With the help of our partners, this winter PEN America will confer 11 distinct awards to writers and translators.
In Daddy Boy, Emerson Whitney chronicles his time on a storm-chasing tour through Tornado Alley as they think through familial relationships, weather, transness, and questions of control and submission. In the latest PEN Ten, Emerson speaks about surrendering understanding, his writing process, grief, and disability.
PEN America Member and former Emerging Voices Fellow Nathan Go writes a taut meditation on forgiveness, and regret in Forgiving Imelda Marcos. Lito Macaraeg, driver of former Philippine president Corazon Aquino, is the only witness on the trip to secretly meet Aquino's long-time political foe Imelda Marcos, the lady of the thousand shoes. Go weaves a deeply intimate novel of alternative history that explores power and powerlessness, the nature of guilt, and what we owe to those we love.
“In the matter of a day, I had to pack a suitcase with everything that made up my life to that point, all 29 years of it. . . . I only had a one-way ticket.”
- Cuban artist Katherine Bisquet
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Our tribute to Ukrainian writer and war crimes investigator
PEN Ukraine member Victoria Amelina died of injuries sustained in a Russian missile attack. In an earlier video, Amelina told us she worried about her fate: "They will try to destroy our museums, our cathedrals, and all our heritage. They will try to kill me.”
