Pissed off with Toilets?

Are you a committed toilet activist trying to make the loo a better place? Or someone who’s angry about the politics of toilets and fed up of struggling to piss in peace? Maybe you haven’t got active in campaigning yet, but it’s only a matter of time? Would you like to meet others who want to revolutionise our toilet spaces too?

The Around the Toilet project has grown out of an activist history led predominantly by trans people, disabled campaigners and feminists, who have been arguing for greater toilet access for years. We know we’re not the only ones who are fighting this battle, so we would love others with similar political goals to attend our final event on Friday 27th November in Z-arts in Manchester. The event is free to attend but registration is recommended. There are limited funds to cover travel and/or childcare. Please get in touch with j.slater@shu.ac.uk if this would be useful to you. More information available here.

Please spread the word with anyone who shares our aims for better toilets for everyone, let’s do this together!

Photograph your toilet!

To celebrate the launch of our blog and our arrival on Twitter, we’d like to invite you to get involved in our toilet research! Have you seen a toilet which you’ve found interesting, frustrating, surprising or funny? If there’s a toilet you’d like to share with us then please join us on Twitter using #cctoilettalk and share a photo or a story of your encounter. We’re particularly interested in hearing about or seeing toilet encounters which concern issues of inclusion/exclusion, access and identity. Get involved!

If you’d like to get involved but you don’t have Twitter then feel free to share a short story in the comments of our blog – just click the grey speech bubble above.

Please note: The nature of Twitter and social media means that we have no control over the Tweets that are sent. We expect lots of the pictures taken will be of toilet signs, buildings and so on. However, when you are taking pictures, please be respectful and mindful of others who may be using the facility, and do not include pictures of people unless you have their direct permission.