Help us stop the book ban movement

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This Banned Books Week, stand with us in our fight against waves of censorship in libraries and schools. Books yanked from the shelves include iconic literary works: Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, and more than 1,600 other titles this year alone.

PEN America is at the forefront of the fight.
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In the last year, PEN America has redoubled its efforts:
* We’ve published Banned in the USA ([link removed]) , which features hard-hitting, up to the minute counts and analyses driving the national conversation on book bans and documenting over 2,500 instances.
* We’ve worked with parents, teachers, and community leaders to fight bans at the local level nationwide.
* We’ve celebrated, empowered, and amplified authors whose works are banned.
* We’ve worked with advocates in Washington D.C., state houses, and school boards to fight anti-library bills, book bans, and other censorious legislation.

Book bans overwhelmingly target writers of color and LGBTQ+ narratives, erasing identities and threatening the right to read. Don’t let this right be stolen from the next generation.

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Suzanne Nossel
PEN America CEO
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