Trigger Warning - Do you want to be warned?
Trigger Warning is a hate letter to reality and to those who would deny it. It is a digital salon of rants, manifestos, tirades, screeds, diatribes, denunciations, agitprop, forbidden ideologies, hidden messages, in-your-face deconstructions, cultural awakenings, and outright calls for blasphemy against the ideological gods of our modern era. It is the extreme glorification of the heretical and iconoclastic, and the vigorous shutting out of the complacent and socially obedient.
We are an online publication for ideological deviants who realize that most other deviants and intellectuals have now lost their ability to see outside the mainstream box of political correctness. We declare that they have lost their radical edge and become slaves to a new type of conformity. Our job is to bring the radical edge back to the intellectual world. We recognize that we now must directly confront the decline that so many sit back and enjoy.
We invite you to be part of it.
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Staff
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Rachel Haywire is the creator of Trigger Warning, and your hostess for the new literary renaissance. She is a writer, artist, musician, and model. Recently she founded the
INSTED festival, and is best known for her work in the fields of transhumanism and alternative media. Her latest book release was
The New Reaction, a subversive collection of political rants and essays. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
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Ann Sterzinger, co-editor of Trigger Warning, respectfully reserves the right to question the axioms and evidence of even her bestest buds. As an editor, she’s worked with publications as wildly diverse as
The Chicago Reader, Temp Slave!, and Taki’s Magazine. She is also the author of three novels, including
NVSQVAM, a cult novel of male middle-class misery.
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Ashton Blackwell is the Marketing Director and alternative media agitator for Trigger Warning, as well as being a contributing editor. Her track record in market research spans big tech companies like IBM and Logitech, as well as major healthcare systems and financial institutions. Ashton is also a freelance writer who has contributed to multiple media outlets including American Thinker.
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Elizabeth Hobson is the Creative Distractor at Trigger Warning. She balances raising two meticulously untamed luminaries with being a morbid, over-excitable, yet analytic futurephile and social critic. She enjoys reading, writing, and talking.
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Why do we need money?
-Professional writers. We don’t expect stunning writers to work for us for free. That’s bloody ridiculous. Just because the Internet is crammed with rank and smelly amateurs doesn’t mean the real dealers have to give you the fruit of their sweat for nothing.
-Professional editors. Real writers need real editors, for coordination and also to protect them from themselves. We need facts as well as egos checked, and asking editors to work for free is even more ridiculous than asking it out of writers.
-Publicity and marketing. Because we like to humblebrag that we’re not that good at humblebragging. We need someone to bring the mass to our class. In other words, marketing ain’t going to do itself.
-Staff training. We need our staffers to advance their programming skills in order to update our site on a regular basis, serving you even more triggering content for your daily ragefix. We would also like to expand our staff and become a sinister media organization.
-Professional graphics. Unless you just like looking at our selfies. I mean, our selfies are pretty damn sexy, don’t get us wrong, but even WE get tired of looking at ourselves.
-Legal stuff. We’re going to have to keep some cash in reserve for legal fees, especially if you want us to keep saying what you’re thinking. You never know what could happen.
-Did we mention writers? It’s not that giving to Trigger Warning is going to get you published in the magazine personally, but it will increase the number of writers we can publish.
-Parties. Not for ourselves, but for our fans. We want to create a new kind of event called Cabaret Degenerate: in which avant-garde musicians, artists, burlesque dancers, heretical philosophers, and political theorists can get their game on.
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[Special thanks to David Gorge for filming us.]
[Also a special thanks to
Devin Francisco for his fabulous artwork.]
