The issue of their usage, however, is by no means cut and dry. If anything, the messy and polarizing debate over the appropriateness of trigger warnings has become a key theater in the Kulturkampf of ...

The term trigger warning was coined in the late 1990s on feminist Internet message boards, where it cautioned readers about graphic depictions of crimes, typically rape. The idea was to help ...

Trigger warnings are meant to help people emotionally prepare for or avoid potentially upsetting material. But new evidence from a week-long study of young adults suggests they often do neither.

Chocolat author Joanne Harris has had trigger warnings added to her books - Clara Molden When my youngest daughter came home from school one day, she was very excited to tell me about a poem she and ...

So, that’s what might be called my “trigger warning” for my Human Sexual Diversity course, and I explicitly communicate this purposeful design to them on the first day of class (verbally and in the ...

Rachel Zegler’s West End revival of Evita has drawn criticism for including a trigger warning about ‘loud music and sudden noises’ — but much of the backlash reflects a misunderstanding of what ...