Read To Respond: Bathroom Politics

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. This post focuses on bathroom politics, and how we make bathrooms accessible to people of different gender, ability, or class. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.

Bathroom Politics

• “‘Boys Over Here, Girls Over There’: A Critical Literacy of Binary Gender in Schools”
  Susan W. Woolley
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 2, number 3
  August 2015
• “Taking a Break: Toilets, Gender, and Disgust”
  Judith Plaskow
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, number 4
  October 2016

• “On Being the Object of Compromise”
  Cael M. Keegan
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 3, issue 1-2  
  May 2016

• “Stalled: Gender-Neutral Public Bathrooms”
  Joel Sanders and Susan Stryker
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016

• “The Bathroom Problem” in Female Masculinity
  Jack Halberstam
  1998

• “Bathrooms and Beyond: Expanding a Pedagogy of Access in Trans/Disability Studies”
  Cassius Adair
  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 2, issue 3
  August 2015

• “Other People’s Shit (and Pee!)”
  Alison Kafer
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016

• “Ghana: The Waste Land” 
  Frankie Freeman
  World Policy Journal, volume 27, issue 2
  Summer 2010

• “Closure, Affect, and the Continuing Queer Potential of Public Toilets” 
  Dharman Jeyasingham
  South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 115, issue 4
  October 2016

These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.