The Trouble With Trigger Warnings

“Contains prolonged blackout, themes of ableism, addiction, blood, death, mental illness, transphobia and strong language.” Just another school night in some parts of Edinburgh; but in the city’s more refined quarters, the sort of evening which now comes with a trigger warning. For August is festival time in the capital, and the streets throng with intrepid performers, apparently intent on pushing quaking nervous systems to their limits.