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Now THIS lady could use a Trigger warning.

Trigger Warnings and the Assumption of Fragility

Readers – –This bhkdfdryek is an amazing article from The New Republic by Jenny Jarvie about a phenom called “trigger warnings” — warnings written on blog posts and, increasingly, everywhere else, that tell folks that the material they’re about to read may “trigger” awful thoughts: Initially, trigger warnings were used in self-help and feminist forums to […]

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