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December 5, 2024 Jeff Sparrow, _The University of Melbourne_ Paradoxically, the very scale of the crisis in Gaza makes worthwhile even the tiniest gesture of solidarity. May 6, 2024 Jacob
DesRochers, _Queen's University, Ontario_ ‘Baby Reindeer’ raises questions about the effectiveness of content warnings. Viewers may still be vulnerable to secondary trauma, particularly
those who have experienced similar violence. June 27, 2023 Susan Moore, _Swinburne University of Technology_ Researching family history is a popular hobby. But hobbyists can find themselves
unearthing details of ancestors behaving badly or treated cruelly – or family secrets and trauma. February 5, 2023 Jodi McAlister, _Deakin University_ A UK university has attached a trigger
warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre. December 20, 2022 Jessica
Gildersleeve, _University of Southern Queensland_; India Bryce, _University of Southern Queensland_, and Kate Cantrell, _University of Southern Queensland_ Trigger warnings are increasingly
ubiquitous but recent research finds they are ineffective, and possibly harmful, if used in a tokenistic way. January 25, 2022 Jo Waugh, _York St John University_ Despite arguments that
young children have enjoyed Jane Eyre for 150 years, the Victorians were much more concerned about the novel’s influence than universities are today. November 22, 2018 Rebecca Yearling,
_Keele University_ Even Samuel Johnson found some of Shakespeare’s violent scenes unwatchable. August 8, 2018 Stephanie Trigg, _The University of Melbourne_ Reading the poem Eurydice to her
students unleashed surprising emotions for Stephanie Trigg. But literature works in mysterious, unpredictable ways, highlighting the impossibility of trigger warnings. November 21, 2016
Frank Furedi, _University of Kent_ Highly restrictive speech codes are now the norm in some of the world’s universities. October 19, 2016 João Florêncio, _University of Exeter_ Who am I, as
an academic, to decide in advance what is or what is not triggering to others? October 9, 2016 Ika Willis, _University of Wollongong_ In the fraught debate over trigger warnings in the
university classroom, they are routinely associated with censorship and silencing. Yet for teachers, they can open up a discussion of difficult material – not suppress it. September 30, 2016
Tony Pollard, _University of Glasgow_ An archaeology lecturer was lambasted for allowing students to step out if they get upset. Why he was right to do so. September 13, 2016 Marguerite
Johnson, _University of Newcastle_ There are calls for Ovid’s Metamorphoses to be taught with a trigger warning. This 15-book epic is a rollercoaster of a read, with moments of both
delicious joy and abject depravity. Like much great art, it was not created to please. July 3, 2015 Dana Ruggiero, _Bath Spa University_ Lecturers need to flag up graphic material with their
students before they click on it. May 22, 2014 Michelle Smith, _Deakin University_ If you’ve been involved in internet discussions about sensitive topics like sexual abuse, you may have
seen the letters “TW”, short for “trigger warning”. The convention originated primarily on feminist…