Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space
<p class="first" id="d30026e73">Signs prescribing our permission to enter or abstain from specific places, such as those on toilet doors, mark murky borders between quasi-public and private space and have profound impacts upon our lives and identitie...
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| description | <p class="first" id="d30026e73">Signs prescribing our permission to enter or abstain from specific places, such as
those on toilet doors, mark murky borders between quasi-public and private space and
have profound impacts upon our lives and identities. In this paper we draw on research
which centred trans, queer and disabled people's experiences of toilet in/exclusion
to explore how the signs on toilet doors shape disabled people's experiences of toilet
access away from home and therefore their use of public space more broadly. We argue
that the use of the International Symbol of Access (ISA) both delivers a false promise
of accessibility and maintains the borders of disability through (re)enforcing a particular
public imaginary of disability. We note the forced reliance on toilets in institutional
and commercial settings when away from home and argue that, under capitalism, accessibility
is persistently restricted by its potential to be lucrative.
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| spelling | doaj.art-f8715dee2b6a415c81d166e37ffa56442023-05-03T16:32:53ZengPluto JournalsInternational Journal of Disability and Social Justice2732-40362732-40442021-10-0111507210.13169/intljofdissocjus.1.1.0050Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to SpaceJen SlaterCharlotte Jones<p class="first" id="d30026e73">Signs prescribing our permission to enter or abstain from specific places, such as those on toilet doors, mark murky borders between quasi-public and private space and have profound impacts upon our lives and identities. In this paper we draw on research which centred trans, queer and disabled people's experiences of toilet in/exclusion to explore how the signs on toilet doors shape disabled people's experiences of toilet access away from home and therefore their use of public space more broadly. We argue that the use of the International Symbol of Access (ISA) both delivers a false promise of accessibility and maintains the borders of disability through (re)enforcing a particular public imaginary of disability. We note the forced reliance on toilets in institutional and commercial settings when away from home and argue that, under capitalism, accessibility is persistently restricted by its potential to be lucrative. </p>https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/intljofdissocjus.1.1.0050 |
| spellingShingle | Jen Slater Charlotte Jones Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space International Journal of Disability and Social Justice |
| title | Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space |
| title_full | Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space |
| title_short | Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space |
| title_sort | toilet signs as border markers exploring disabled people apos s access to space |
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