No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs - Softcover

Lowe, Lezlie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552453707 ISBN 13: 9781552453704

Verlag: Coach House Books, 2018

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Adults don't talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public bathrooms is problem- and politics-free. No Place To Go reveals the opposite is true.
No Place To Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place To Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways — momentous and mockable — public bathrooms just don't work. Like, for the homeless, who, faced with no place to go sometimes literally take to the streets. (Ever heard of a municipal poop map?) For people with invisible disabilities, such as Crohn’s disease, who stay home rather than risk soiling themselves on public transit routes. For girls who quit sports teams because they don’t want to run to the edge of the pitch to pee. Celebrities like Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen have protested bathroom bills that will stomp on the rights of transpeople. And where was Hillary Clinton after she arrived back to the stage late after the first commercial break of the live-televised Democratic leadership debate in December 2015? Stuck in a queue for the women’s bathroom.
Peel back the layers on public bathrooms and it’s clear many more people want for good access than have it. Public bathroom access is about cities, society, design, movement, and equity. The real question is: Why are public toilets so crappy?

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Lezlie Lowe is a freelance journalist and journalism instructor based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has been recognized for her long-form journalism by the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Atlantic Journalism Awards. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King's College, where she also teaches in the Journalism department. No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs is her first book

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It's easy to pretend public bathrooms don't need any fixing when no one talks reasonably about their problems. North American toilet talk boomerangs between clinical and bust-a-gut. We can spill to our doctors about our toilet habits. We can toss out potty jokes. But we don't have the language to deal with the everyday. Your kid had to squat behind a shrubbery and wipe with purse-bottom-mottled Kleenex? You shit your pants in line at Starbucks because you had to buy something to get a bathroom key? La-la-la ... I can't hear you .... Meanwhile targeted ads follow us around the Internet pushing plush toilet paper and wet wipes. The glossy mags I browse at the library paint clean scenes of fluffy towels and svelte toilets, like the elliptical, tube-shaped Kohler Purist Hatbox commode. It's not difficult to see where the toilet sexiness line is drawn ― toilet advertising is all about improving the private bathroom experience, not bettering public conveniences and simple public access. After all, what's there to sell in a public bathroom besides social justice and public health?

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Coach House Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1552453707
• ISBN 13: 9781552453704
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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