Who Are Trigger Warnings Helping?

Do trigger warnings work, and even so, are their limits to their usefulness?
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-If Books Could Kill: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897?i=1000603422829
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- Hollywood Censored: The Production Code Administration and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930-1940 Gregory D. Black
- Chapter 8 Sexual Violence, Trigger Warnings, and the Early Modern Classroom [Kirsten N. Mendoza](https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=au%3A%22Kirsten%20N.%20Mendoza%22) [Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs912p), 2019, pp. 97-105 (11 pages): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs912p.13
- "the gothic is not an aesthetic" SAINT (S.T.) GIBSON: https://saint.substack.com/p/writing-and-reading-the-gothic-novel
- “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”
- Fandom 101: The Origin of the Citrus Scale: https://duckprintspress.com/2023/11/04/fandom-101-the-origin-of-the-citrus-scale/
- "Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On": https://www.npr.org/2008/08/08/93301189/remembering-hollywoods-hays-code-40-years-on

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