BUILD A BETTER WORLD.

EMPOWER GENESEO STUDENTS

FOR ACCESSIBILITY ACTIVISM!

Lets mobilize for visible, degendered, accessible public

bathrooms.
We have been taught to be ashamed of discussing our
bodies and their needs. We have been made silent
about bathrooms as sites of discursive, social, physical,
and sexual violence against transgender, genderqueer,
intersex, and disabled bodies.
Our world has delegitimized bathroom activism as crude,
but the signs denoting who can and cannot safely
access toilets have erased these communities from the
public sphere and diminished their life chances. Our
world has used gender-segregated bathrooms for the
surveillance and harassment of people of color and poor
people. Our world has imposed social restrictions of
gender, ability, race, and class on safe places to pee.
But how to build a better world?
We must go beyond handrails, wider stall doors, sharps
containers, tampon/pad dispensers, and diaperchanging tables in all public bathrooms. We need to
work with trans* and disabled communities to reimagine
the normative body, not as unimpaired and cisgender,
but as simply having biological needs.