the trouble with trigger warnings

  • Written by: Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Trigger warnings are widely used in many universities – and increasingly, the wider world. Last year, London’s Globe theatre attached a trigger warning to Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, advising it “contains depictions of suicide, moments of violence, and references to drug use,” among...

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