Online Articles

Ponta Abadi, “Trigger-Warning Debate Ignores Survivors’ Voices,” Ms., 2014.

Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Hurt/Feminism Hurts,” Feminist Killjoys, 2014,

David Banks, “The Coddling of the Hateful Mind,” Cyborgology, The Society Pages, 2015.

Gillian Brown, “Not Sure What People Mean By ‘Triggering?’ This Article Is Your One-Stop 101,” Everyday Feminism, 2015.

Soraya Chemaly, “What’s Really Important About ‘Trigger Warnings’,” The Huffington Post, 2014,

Tracy Clark-Flory, “Wikileaks Targets ‘Trigger Warnings’ and ‘Safe Spaces,’” Vocativ, 2015.

Katherine Cross, “Jack Halberstam’s Flying Circus: On Postmodernism and the Scapegoating of Trans Women,” Feministing, 2014.

Brandy Daniels, “Trigger Warnings, Trauma, & a Politics of ‘Thick Life:’ On Halberstam’s ‘You Are Triggering Me,’ and Povinelli’s Empire of Love,” Women in Theology, 2014.

Sady Doyle, “The Nanny University,” In These Times, 2014.

Lisa Duggan, “On Trauma and Trigger Warnings, in Three Parts,” Bully Bloggers, 2014.

Maya Dusenbery, “The Wednesday Weigh-In: Trigger Warning Edition,” Feministing, 2012.

Joni Edelman, “Trigger Warnings: The Good, the Bad, the Pancakes,” The Huffington Post, 2015.

Jane Fae, “Do We Need Warning?,” The F Word Blog: Contemporary UK Feminism, 2013.

Sian Ferguson, “What, Why, When, Where, and How?: 5 Common Questions About Trigger Warnings Answered,” Everyday Feminism, 2015.

Jill Filipovic, “Trigger Warning: Insufferable Dingbat Ahoy,” Feministe, 2010.

Jill Filipovic, “Trigger Warnings, Safety and Illusions,” Feministe, 2012.

Sam Dylan Finch, “When You Oppose Trigger Warnings, You’re Really Saying These 8 Things,” Everyday Feminism, 2015.

Colleen Flaherty, “Race and Slurs in the Classroom,” Inside Higher Ed, 2015.

Alison Flood, “US Students Request ‘Trigger Warnings’ on Literature,” The Guardian,  2014.

Stacey May Fowles, “Trigger Warnings Are the Least We Can Do to Help Trauma Survivors Feel Safe,” The Globe and Mail, 2015.

Elizabeth Freeman, Brian Herrera, Nat Hurley, Homay King, Dana Luciano, Dana Seitler, and Patricia White (7 Humanities Professors), “Trigger Warnings Are Flawed,” Inside Higher Ed, 2015.

Sasha Garwood, “Trigger Warning: In Which Intent and Outcome Are so Rarely Coincident,” The F Word Blog: Contemporary UK Feminism, 2015.

Roxane Gay, “The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion,” The Rumpus, 2012.

Nick Gillespie, “Trigger Warning: College Kids Are Human Veal,” The Daily Beast, 2015.

Barry Glassner, “Baby Boomers, Don’t Be So Quick to Mock Colleges on ‘Trigger Warnings’ and ‘Micro-Aggressions,’” The Huffington Post, 2015.

Stacey Goguen, “The Ethics of Trigger Warnings in the Classroom,” Feminist Philosophers, 2014.

Jonah Goldberg, “The Peculiar Madness of ‘Trigger Warnings,’” Los Angeles Times, 2014.

Jack Halberstam, “You Are Triggering Me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma,” 2014.

Jack Halberstam, “Triggering Me, Triggering You: Making Up Is Hard To Do,” Bully Bloggers, 2014.

Maggie Hardy, “Campus Rape Survivors Need Policy Changes, Not Trigger Warnings,” The Feminist Wire, 2015.

Heather Haskins, “Personal Is Political: Warning: Triggers Ahead,” The Feminist Wire, 2014.

Jeet Heer, “Generation PTSD: What the ‘Trigger Warning’ Debate Is Really About,” New Republic, 2015.

Jennifer Howard, “Faculty on the Front Lines,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015.

Hua Hsu, “The Year of the Imaginary College Student,” The New Yorker, 2015.

Ali Jaffe, “Trigger Warnings Should Be About Sensitivity, Not Censorship,” Vice, 2015.

Angus Johnston, “A Vital Perspective on Access for Students With Disabilities,” Student Activism, 2014.

D H Kelly, “We Need to Stop Talking about Triggers and Start Talking about Access,” The F Word Blog: Contemporary UK Feminism, 2015.

Tyler Kingkade, “Universities Are Trying To Teach Faculty How To Spot Microaggressions,” The Huffington Post, 2015.

Jay Livingston, “Trigger Warnings, the Big Picture: Changing Our Culture of Social Control,” The Society Pages, 2015.

Kathleen Ann Livingston, “On Rage, Shame, ‘Realness,’ and Accountability to Survivors,” Harlot, 2014.

Sarit Luban, “Trigger Warnings Aren’t ‘Coddling’ the Traumatized -- They’re Showing Basic Human Respect,” xoJane, 2015.

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” The Atlantic, September 2015.

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Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, and Aaron Hanlon, "The Infantilization of the American Undergraduate," Huffington Post Live, interview by Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani, 2015.

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Kate Manne, “Why I Use Trigger Warnings,” The New York Times, 2015.

Amanda Marcotte, “Diversity of Tone, Safe Spaces, and Trigger Warnings,” Raw Story, June 15, 2009.

Amanda Marcotte, “The Year of the Trigger Warning,” Slate, 2013.

Glen Martin and Marica Petrey, “Righto: UC’s Trigger Warnings and Microaggression Labels Outrage Conservatives,” Cal Alumni Association, 2015.

Melissa McEwan, “Triggered,” Shakesville, 2014.

Richard J. McNally, “Hazards Ahead: The Problem With Trigger Warnings, According to the Research,” Pacific Standard, 2014.

Jennifer Medina, “Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm,” The New York Times, 2014.

Maddy Myers, “Saying Trigger Warnings ‘Coddle the Mind’ Completely Misses the Point,” The Mary Sue, 2015.

Heben Nigatu, “21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis,” BuzzFeed, 2013.

Anne North, “Trigger-Angry: The Politics Of Internet Trigger Warnings,” Jezebel, 2010.

Leon Pomeroy, “Microaggressions and Trigger-Warnings,” Psychology Today, 2015.

Aja Romano, “The Movie Trigger Database Is the Only Ratings System You’ll Ever Need,” The Daily Dot, 2013.

Alyssa Rosenberg, “How Trigger Warnings Could Really Work,” The Washington Post, 2015.

Sarah Seltzer, “Teaching Trigger Warnings: What Pundits Don’t Understand About the Year’s Most Controversial Higher-Ed Debate,” Flavorwire, 2015.

Sarah Seltzer, “5 Reasons to Be Skeptical of ‘Campus Coddling’ Scare Pieces,” Flavorwire, 2015.

Angela Shaw-Thornburg, “This Is a Trigger Warning,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014.

Judith Shulevitz, “In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas,” The New York Times, 2015.

Andrea Smith, “Beyond the Pros and Cons of Trigger Warnings: Collectivizing Healing,” Andrea Smith’s Blog, 2014.

Rebecca Solnit, “Men Explain Lolita to Me,” Literary Hub, 2015.

Kat Stoeffel, “Why I Stopped Rolling My Eyes at Trigger Warnings,” The Cut, 2014.

Tracy Strauss, “Twitter, Why the ‘Trigger Warning’ for Dylan Farrow’s Open Letter?,” The Huffington Post, 2014.

Jessica Valenti, “Feminists Talk Trigger Warnings: A Round-Up,” The Nation, 2014.

Julie A. Winterich, “Trigger or Not, Warnings Matter,” Inside Higher Ed, 2015.