Hello from Northern Ireland, where the Brits loved to use rubber bullets! Rubber bullets kill. This is what rubber bullets look like. Now imagine that fired at you from a gun -

'they kicked us in the chest, in the guts, in the head, in the face. multiple people have concussions, lacerations, broken ankles. I saw people in holding with wrapped wrists. One person had to go get stitches. All of those injuries were inflicted by the NYPD.'

They’re uncovering a new mass grave at the hospitals in Gaza now more than once a week. Every single time it’s children, doctors, patients with their hands tied, executed, thrown in a pit. We will learn it is much worse than we know. For now the US state commands we endorse it

arrests begin, starting with line of faculty who had been protecting students

BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting.

Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.

FREE PALESTINE!

NYPD jail buses are being BLOCKED from leaving. The NYU Gaza encampment is being dismantled but the students and protestors are undeterred!

wow, surprising statement from the White House on the protests at Columbia University against the genocide in Palestine!

proud, inspired. thank you to all the authors who withdrew their work, to the PEN staff who supported our action, to the writers who withdrew from the WVF and charted a path forward, to Jean Stein for saying what PEN America refuses to––Gaza will be free lithub.com/the-pen-americ…

As of this morning 29 writers & translators nominated for PEN Awards have withdrawn - including 9 of 10 fellow Jein/Stein nominees, who asked to no longer be considered for PEN’s most lucrative prize. We sent a letter to leadership today explaining why:
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

Rally with PEN America United for a fair contract now!!

This Wednesday, April 17th at 12 pm - wear red and join us outside the PEN America Head Quarters at 588 Broadway New York, NY 10012 !!!

Share widely!! We'll see you there!!!

Authors shouldn't bear the burden of organizational inaction. My sympathy lies with those facing these difficult decisions, including PEN staff caught in the middle. PEN American leadership must do better. Please support the authors that have withdrawn.

With my gratitude to the judges for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize - nevertheless, I am withdrawing:

A number of nominees for the PEN Literary Awards, including Maya Binyam and Christina Sharpe, have withdrawn their books from consideration over PEN America's response to the war in Gaza. pwne.ws/4awt8ai

I withdrew my work from consideration for the Jean Stein Award. I can't align myself w/ a human rights org that waits 5 months to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, while platforming zionists & pretending there's nuance to genocide.
✊🏽🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
✊🏽Writers Against the War on Gaza
✊🏽PEN America United

I'll never know how much this will affect me in the future so if you want to keep supporting my work, please follow me on Substack and sign up for a paid yearly readership so that, in the event my career goes to hell, I'll at least have an audience. thx.
camonghne.substack.com

🧵I declined the PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, in solidarity with the 1300+ writers who've decried PEN America silence on the genocidal murder of Palestinians, & with the PEN America United fight to maintain free speech for PEN employees,

Maya Binyam PEN America PEN America United Writers Against the War on Gaza 🧵 with some more background on @PENAmerica and its leadership: twitter.com/AdalahNY/statu…

In solidarity with 1300+ protesting authors I declined the PEN/DAU Prize.

PEN America needs to conduct an internal review of bias, speak out against Israel’s occupation + genocide, and apologize to Randa Jarrar.

theintercept.com/2024/03/30/pen…

Despite my deep gratitude to the judges who believed in my book, BIANCA, I have withdrawn from consideration for the 2024 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. I made this choice in keeping with the boycott sustained against @penamerica, and in solidarity with Palestine. 🧵

Last Tuesday I found out that my book Dyscalculia was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein award. I decided to decline this recognition and asked to be removed from the longlist in solidarity with the ongoing protest of PEN's continued normalization and denial of genocide.