In The Philippines and Freedom of Expression Conchitina Cruz describes the attempted neoliberal takeover and militarization of universities, issues that are of particular global relevance in this...
The pieces in this collection are written by Filipino women political prisoners held in the maximum security prison of the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, the...
Text: Conchitina Cruz and Adam David
October 08 2025
Faye Cura, publisher of Gantala Press, a Filipino feminist small press, writes about the power of dissent, boycott, citizen protest and protest literature as resolute resistance.
Gina Alexandra Srmabekian is a writer whose work grapples with transgenerational trauma, memory and identity. She writes about grief because it is the most powerful articulation of love.
In the wake of the 2020 war over Artsakh and the ethnic cleansing of the Republic that followed in 2023 by Azerbaijan, memory has become a battlefield as fraught as the land itself. “The Spoils of War...
This is a letter penned in jail by Amanda Echanis to her father, peace consultant Randall “Ka Randy” Echanis. Amanda, a writer and organizer of the Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, was...
Text: Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis
October 08 2025
Myles Albasin had just graduated from University of the Philippines-Cebu when she and five other young activists were arrested in Mabinay, Negros Oriental on March 3, 2018. Like many detained...
On 27 March 2025, Swedish author and journalist Joakim Medin is detained at Istanbul airport, where he had travelled to report on the nationwide protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and...
In February 2021, the military in Myanmar staged a coup against the democratically elected government. The massive protests that followed were brutally suppressed, and freedom of expression has been...
Five years after the stolen election, Belarusian poet Uladzimir Liankievič offers a personal reflection on the legacy of the Belarusian uprising. Impressions from schoolbooks from his childhood and...
Text: Uladz Ljankevitj [Uladzimir Liankievič]
August 21 2025
On November 1st 2024 concrete canopy of the newly renovated main railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia collapsed and killed 16 people. This ignited series of ongoing massive protests against corruption...
”Writing of war, amidst its turmoil, reopens old wounds, striving to mend them with memory’s searing balm, even as new wounds bleed. I wrote to confront the past, but it was also a writing to reject a...
Text: Stella Gaitano Translation from Arabic: Najlaa Eltom
June 23 2025
Writer and PEN Afghanistan member Neelufer Suhrabie writes about that fateful Sunday in August 2021, when the Taliban made their way to the gates of Kabul to seize power for the first time since the...
