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On trigger warning

On trigger warning

Judging from recent reports, one might think that trigger warnings—alerts about classroom material involving pedophilia, rape, and other disturbing topics—are the latest threat to civilization. To their credit, the warnings about trigger warnings are not entirely without merit, in that we do indeed need to guard our academic freedoms (which are not always and everywhere […] … learn more→

This is a trigger warning

My earliest memory: I am a small girl, prone on a bed. Sunlight is streaming through the windows, sending streaks of gold and amber across the pinewood floors of my family’s brick house on a country road. The floor is so clean that it shines. My mother mops the floors of the house in the […] … learn more→