Re: Triggering and YA fiction (as handled by a feminist magazine with an unapologetically edgy name)

I've come across the term. I'm surprised they didn't just consider
adding a warning. I once read a couple threads on a feminist/support
forum, and personal stories that could potentially be triggering for
others just had a warning at the start.


On 2/2/11, Johne Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> I must say, I'm not familiar with the term 'triggering.' I sort of get where
> they're going with it, but it seems that if your magazine is named what it
> is to begin with, I'm not sure you have a leg to stand on when it comes to
> moral high ground with regard to language for YA readers.
>
> There's a concise summary
> here<http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/02/01/how-to-piss-off-a-bunch-of-ya-authors/>,
> followed by the actual thread-in-process
> here<http://bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-library-100-young-adult-books-for-the-feminist-reader>.
> (Links added for the Pine-disabled among  us.) <gd&r>
>
> http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/02/01/how-to-piss-off-a-bunch-of-ya-authors/
> http://bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-library-100-young-adult-books-for-the-feminist-reader
>
>> How to Piss Off a Bunch of YA Authors
>>
>> *It’s easy, really:*
>>
>> *1.* As a feminist magazine, create a list of “100 Young Adult Books for
>> the Feminist Reader,” as *Bitch* magazine recently
>> did.<http://bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-library-100-young-adult-books-for-the-feminist-reader>
>>
>> *2.* Include Margo Lanagan’s really fabulous book *Tender
>> Morsels*<http://www.amazon.com/Tender-Morsels-Margo-Lanagan/dp/0375848118>on
>> the list.
>>
>> *3.* When someone complains in the comments to the list that Tender and a
>> couple of other books are “triggering,” remove them from the
>> list<http://bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-library-100-young-adult-books-for-the-feminist-reader#comment-46018>
>> .
>>
>> *4. *Sit back and watch as a number of high profile, award-winning and/or
>> bestselling YA authors, including Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier,
>> Maureen Johnson and Ellen Kages hit the roof and show up in the comments
>> to
>> demand their own books be removed from the list as well.
>>
>> Maureen Johnson’s comment encapsulates the issue:
>>
>> I have been incredibly disheartened to see your process for removing
>> books.
>> It mirrors EXACTLY the process by which book banners remove books from
>> schools and libraries–namely, one person makes a comment, no one actually
>> checks, book gets yanked…
>>
>> [P]lease remember that young feminists are looking up to you. When they
>> see
>> you so easily intimidated, so easily swayed, so eager to make concessions
>> .
>> . . it sets exactly the wrong example.
>>
>> What do I think? That *Tender Morsels* is a very good book, one that I
>> have in my own library, and one that I’ll be happy to have my daughter
>> read.
>> Along with the books of Scott, Justine, Maureen and Ellen.
>>
>
>
> Johne Cook
> | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |
>
> *“I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have
> inside your head.”
> Attributed to Teresa Nielsen Hayden*
>

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