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This week, the dean of students at the University of Chicago released an appallingly ignorant and anti-intellectual letter sent to incoming first-year undergrads that decried "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces", assuring students that he would make sure professors weren't free to use these concepts in their teaching. I'm linking to two articles related to this attack on academic freedom and on disabled students, though neither article recognizes that content warnings (or trigger warnings) are disability accommodations: Neither author really seems to understand what PTSD is, either, and I wish I had an article by someone who actually has PTSD about the recent events to link to -- particularly one who thinks in a disability rights framework -- but alas.

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Date: 2016-08-29 05:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Angela Carter brings trauma & teaching experience to the discussion. She analyzes how trigger warnings accommodate traumatized people (in a dry, academic manner, but worth slogging through).
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Whether or not we consider the affect and effects of trauma on pedagogy is a choice only for those whose lives are not already shaped by trauma. For us, there is no choice; our experiences of trauma shape how we move through the world. The consideration of trauma in our classroom is not a question of pedagogy or academic labor.
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"Teaching with Trauma: Disability Pedagogy, Feminism, and the Trigger Warnings Debate"
Angela M Carter
Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 36, No 2 (2016): Winter 2016 | free open access
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4652/3935

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Date: 2016-08-29 05:20 pm (UTC)
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Also I've been searching for that crack baby site, thank you very much.

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