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Articles on Shared toilets

September 27, 2023

Bathrooms are political: how gender-inclusive toilets can combat indignity and violence

Jarred H Martin, University of Pretoria and Pierre Waldemar Brouard, University of Pretoria

Studies show unisex toilets don’t lead to violence – and they create a safer space for gender diverse people.

June 22, 2018

Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

Sit v squat – the big public toilet stand-off.

June 11, 2018

Charlotte Jones, The University of Edinburgh and Jen Slater, Sheffield Hallam University

What it’s like trying to use a public loo when they aren’t designed for you.

April 12, 2018

Sheillah Simiyu, Great Lakes University of Kisumu

Shared toilets have been shown to be linked to poor health outcomes.

Jen Slater
Reader Disability Studies and Education, Sheffield Hallam University
Primrose Freestone
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
Sheillah Simiyu
Lecturer, Great Lakes University of Kisumu
Charlotte Jones
Postdoctoral research fellow in the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Jarred H Martin
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Pretoria
Pierre Waldemar Brouard
Acting director of the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS & Gender, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria