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

Triggering traumatic memories or flashbacks of rape or sexual abuse.
At least, that's the context I've seen the word used in.


On 2/3/11, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> What, triggering as in "if they read this they will want to be gay?" or
> similar?
>
> I am trying to understand the context.  I read the synopsis on one opf the
> books, not sure what it is believed to 'trigger'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of James
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:12 AM
> To: DADL (off topic)
> Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] 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-aut
> hors/>,
>> followed by the actual thread-in-process
>>
> here<http://bitchmagazine.org/post/from-the-library-100-young-adult-books-fo
> r-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-fo
> r-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-fo
> r-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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