It has been incredibly helpful for me to open up the topic to discussion.
The thing that I've realized is that in all the workshopping I've done, the people most likely to have something that looks like a panic attack are writers after a bad critique. And so I'm starting to think of trigger warnings in this very specific context (memoir about traumatic events) as being different than e.g. a college course.
But on the other hand, as I understand it, trigger warnings started in forums for the discussion of sexual assault. So not totally dissimilar. But also, a forum post is something you can mute without the poster having any negative impact.
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Date: 2019-03-28 03:25 pm (UTC)It has been incredibly helpful for me to open up the topic to discussion.
The thing that I've realized is that in all the workshopping I've done, the people most likely to have something that looks like a panic attack are writers after a bad critique. And so I'm starting to think of trigger warnings in this very specific context (memoir about traumatic events) as being different than e.g. a college course.
But on the other hand, as I understand it, trigger warnings started in forums for the discussion of sexual assault. So not totally dissimilar. But also, a forum post is something you can mute without the poster having any negative impact.