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What is Toilet Justice?

Toilet justice ensures equal access to bathrooms for everyone, regardless of gender identity or expression, ability, or access needs.

Definitions: 

Single-occupancy: Bathrooms with a singular toilet and lockable door.

All-gender: Anyone can use a facility, regardless of gender identity or expression.

ADA-Compliant: The types and heights of fixtures and bathroom design meet the specifications established by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“Working for toilet justice is a vivid, material, concrete way to demand space for marginalized bodies, and to resist a respectability politics that sacrifices problematic bodies for the sake of political expediency... Toilets force us to grapple with assumptions about dignity: who has it, who deserves it, and who forfeits it.”

 

Julia Watts Belser. “Toilet Justice.” Toilet Justice Symposium, Political Theology Network, March 5, 2018, https://politicaltheology.com/symposium/toilet-justice/.

Toilet Justice Resources

  • Chess, Simone, Alison Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson. "Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries." In Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Ed. That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull Press, 2004): 189-206.