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?
