#Egypt 🇪🇬 ⛓️‍💥 Alaa Abd El-Fattah is free! After nearly 12 years of imprisonment, the Egyptian-British democracy activist Alaa has been released following a pardon by Egyptian president Sisi. www.pen-international.org/news/egypt-a... @peninternational.bsky.social #freealaa

🌏 Free Jimmy Lai. #FreeJimmyLai #China #HongKong #freespeech

#Egypt ‼️Egyptian President al-Sisi has ordered authorities to study the possible pardon of Egyptian-British political prisoner, Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Alaa is on the brink of release, now is not the time to let up. PEN Sydney joins calls for Egyptian authorities to “act now, not tomorrow”.

🌹I'm so happy to be apart of Aôthen. It has been a couple of years now (a bit longer?) and time has flown by. Thank you guys. If you're in the online literary community, I encourage you to take the initiative and reach out to somebody. They might need your help! You'll meet some wonderful people! 😎

📌 The Death of Charlie Kirk has brought into focus the divide between traditional conservatism and radical regressivism. The former is embodied by Russell Kirk, and the latter, Charlie Kirk. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-choice-o... #politics #usa #america #kirk #conservative #philosophy

🏺 This week on Columns, we have an interview with Garrett Dome from Contubernales Books! Garrett speaks to us about the communal #Aeneid translation project he is working on, the nature of #translation, and building community in the classical field. 🔗 Read now via our profile!

📢 The Hope Prize celebrates the power of storytelling to spark empathy and action. This international competition invites both emerging and established writers to share stories of resilience, courage, and hope. Submit your short story by 31 October: www.thehopeprize.com #thehopeprize #writers

📌 Movement conservatives are right. Universities indoctrinate. But indoctrination is part of education. Still, conservative ideas need more airtime on campus…only so we can suffocate them afterwards. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/why-univer... #conservative #liberal #university #freespeech

Hey, you! We'd love it if we saw your name on your newsletter list... 👀 🤎 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #amwriting #writingcommunity #indielit #classicalstudies

Media outlets have been called out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for inflating their data ahead of anti-immigration 'March for Australia' rallies. ~ Dr Abul Rizvi Media misuses migration statistics to promote anti-immigration rallies independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Who is your favourite writer, and why? 🖋️ #writers #writing #writingcommunity #writinginspiration #writingquotes

Wow. This is wild. #classics #ancient #rome #greece

📢 🌏 #WORLD Writing Against Silencing: @penmelbourne.bsky.social Workshop is an online event that will explore tensions between creative expression and censorship in the Asia-Pacific region. 🎟️ Tickets Pay As You Wish. emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin... @youngwriterspen.bsky.social

✒️ Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature and a Vice President of PEN International, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has written novels, essays, and screenplays. #writing #writingcommunity #writers

#auspol 📢 Australians, if you’re looking for digestible, fact-driven, and free online news, follow @thoughtdigestmedia.news on Bluesky and their other socials (including IG, FB, and X!). Do it for me at least because I am one of their writers 😎.

📌An essay about the Parthenon and Lord Elgin’s confiscation. Contemporaneous legal and moral attitudes anathematised the carnage he wrought on Classical Athens’ great marvel. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/judging-hi... #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #parthenon #parthenonmarbles #history

#Asia #Pacific 🌏 @peninternational.bsky.social's Asia-Pacific regional overview shows that freedom of expression is increasingly under pressure in the Asia-Pacific region. For more information: www.pen-international.org/asia-pacific... 🕊️ #freedryang

📍2025 marks @peninternational.bsky.social's 91st Congress. It will be held in Kraków from the 2nd to the 5th of September in partnership with Polish PEN. This year’s theme is “Freedom of Words--Words of the Free”. #PENCongress2025

And so goes Washington D.C. #washington #trump #freeDC

#Iran 🇮🇷 Iran is notorious for its brutal suppression of political dissent and free expression. In her article, Leila Sadeghi details her harrowing treatment at the hands of the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of her feminist activism. Read PEN Sydney's free magazines: pen.org.au/pen-magazines/

We are on the third circle of this.

#Kurdistan 🕊️The 4th of August 2025 marks the 12th anniversary of Kurdish poet Sherko Bekas' passing, in exile in Sweden. His extended work, Butterfly Freedom, was written in response to Saddam's genocide of Kurdish civilians and the world's silence. A sentiment relevant today.

‼️The Great British PAC are peddling canards about the Parthenon Marbles. They need repudiating. Their letter against repatriation is filled with sophistries, vagaries, and euphemisms. My next essay will be a line by line dissection of this neo-imperialist nonsense 🖋️ #reunitetheparthenonmarbles

Australia’s creative sectors condemn a Productivity Commission report proposing AI access to copyrighted content without permission or pay. Artists warn of “rampant theft” and call on the government to protect workers and reject these changes. #auspol #politics #news #australia #AI #socialmedia

@profwolff.bsky.social Love to know if you discuss marginalism in any of your videos or lectures? I have done some cursory searches and can't find anything.

Classics nerds! Issue 9 of Aôthen magazine is out guys! Thank you to all the contributors and my colleagues at Aôthen for making this happen. 🌹 aothenmagazine.com#issue9pdf1 @aothenmagazine.bsky.social

🔆 Issue 9 is out, and can be read through our Linktree 🔆 A huge thank you to all our readers and contributors, it's an honor as always to platform work about the ancient world with you! Please consider buying a copy of the issue to support the magazine 🧡

And to read @dominicwexler.bsky.social excellent article: Whose marbles? Britain, Greece, and the Parthenon, www.parthenonuk.com/component/co... #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow #TellTheStory

Happy to discover the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles @bcrpm.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Can't believe I didn't search earlier. It's about time I started writing again to raise awareness and combat anti-reunification propaganda. We can't let the new Verres win.

Our newsletter drops next week ✉️ Subscribe now and don’t miss the first details on our 91st Annual Congress, taking place in Kraków from 2–5 September. Sign up today: www.pen-international.org/newsletter-s...

#Australia 🇦🇺 Want to support freedom of expression and the right to write in Australia and around the world? Join PEN Sydney or send us a donation! pen.org.au/join-us/

An essay repudiating Peter O’Brien of The @thespectator1828.bsky.social Australia. He wrote a piece, invoking Voltaire, in defence of Australia Jewry. It was an obscene case of historical illiteracy. Voltaire is one of history’s great antisemites. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/being-cand...

🇺🇸🏛️💰Donald Trump is like a 21st century mercantilist. We had Bidenomics, now we have Trumpitilism. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/trumpitili... #trump #capitalism #economics

🇺🇸🗽Zohran Mamdani defeated establishment candidate Andrew Cuomo in New York City's Democratic primary in June. But his supporters, like @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social of @jacobinmag.bsky.social, expect too much. dominicwexler.substack.com/p/mess-with-... #socialism #america

“If evil looks good to you / some god is heading you on the high road to ruin." — Sophocles' Antigonik, trans. Anne Carson. #amreading #bookish #classicalstudies #classics #antigone

#SriLanka 🇱🇰 ‼️PEN Sri Lanka has warned that the country’s hurried Online Safety Act (OSA) needs to be reviewed because it endangers freedom of expression more than it protects online safety. pen.org.au/sri-lanka-on...

#CHINA #AUSTRALIA ‼️ Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must take action on his 6-day trip to China to secure the release of Dr. Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen. He is serving a suspended death sentence in a Beijing prison. Help raise awareness by sharing this post. Hashtag #freedryang.

If you care about writers like I do… 🌹 bsky.app/profile/pens...

It has always surprised me how many people take Nietzsche seriously. His personality and various pathologies, in addition to his fascistic message, mark him out as a silly little man. I should write an essay and prove it... #philosophy #history #politics #nietzsche

We’re excited to announce the 91st PEN International Congress is heading to Kraków, 2–5 Sept 2025 — hosted by Polish PEN as part of its Centenary. Theme: Freedom of Words – Words of the Free. Expect bold debates, global voices, and powerful public events. More soon! 🌍

✍️ Latest essay is out (been awhile) discussing Australian independence (we aren't) and how we could go about remedying the problem. 🇦🇺 dominicwexler.substack.com/p/an-austral... #auspol #politics #america #australia

#Türkiye ‼️Kurdish writer Yavuz Ekinci will find himself in court on the 9th of July, facing up to 7.5 years in prison if convicted of "making terrorist propaganda" with his novel Rüyası Bölünenler. Mr. Ekinci must not be imprisoned for a work of fiction. ✍️ @peninternational.bsky.social

Thank you to @workingclassicists.bsky.social for awarding @aothenmagazine.bsky.social with the community classicist award! To receive recognition like this is both encouraging and energising. Thank you. And thank you Samantha 🌹.

A huge thank you to @workingclassicists.bsky.social, and to all of you who have supported us as we grow and learn as a #litmag 🧡

#TURKEY 📢 Police arrested four artists from LeMan, a satirical magazine in Türkiye, over a cartoon labelled an “Islamophobic hate crime” by President Erdǒgan's government. Türkiye ranks 158th of 180 countries in the Press Freedom Index. PEN Sydney condemns this serious act of censorship.

#ISRAEL #IRAN ‼️Artist and mother Mehrangiz Eminpour was killed in the Israeli attacks on Tehran on June 2, another reminder of war’s heavy toll on freedom and truth. PEN Sydney condemns the war between two reactionary forces that have led to the deaths of innocent people like Mehrangiz 🕊️.

Wow, over 100 submissions for this issue of @aothenmagazine.bsky.social so far <3 There is still time! Submissions remain open! 🌹 aothenmagazine.com#work

#ISRAEL #IRAN 📢 Prior to the ceasefire, Israel launched airstrikes on Iran’s infamous Evin Prison. We condemn the Iranian government’s inhumane treatment of dissenters and demand their release. We implore the Israeli government not to incautiously endanger lives they profess to want to save. 🕊️