Thread by @_daeshi_

How womens restrooms can be made more inclusive: a thread 🧵

1. Remove bathroom locks - locks in bathrooms create a sense of hostility and may make many folk feel unwelcome. This is particularly important for people who want access to join someone else in their cubicle. (cont..)

The removal of locks would transfer bathrooms from isolationist spaces (with notions of neoliberal individualism) into collective, social spaces, creating a better sense of community and solidarity amongst women, & facilitating more effective organization for womens liberation.

2. Challenge the cisheteronormativity of womens bathrooms - Transwomen should be included and welcomed to womens bathrooms. The definition of women, in relation to bathrooms, should go beyond the dominant cisheteronormative framework.

3. Allow gay and queer men in womens bathrooms - Gay men often face harassment in mens bathrooms which are violent patriarchal spaces. A good practice of allyship would be for us women to allow them into our bathrooms.

(A subpoint in relation to the two above points, that goes without saying, is that womens restrooms must include urinals. This is to accomodate intersexual women, women who have p/nses as well as gay and queer men)

4. Include cocaine tables in cubicles - Many women, particularly those of certain backgrounds, may suffer from drug addictions or just want to consume drugs safely. In an effort to destigmatize drug usage as well as facilitate its usage. Cocaine tables should be included.

5. Cater to womens urges better: As women have a natural urge to cook, there should be a mini-kitchen area in the restroom to satisfy that urge. Similarly, cleaning products should be available throughout the restroom as women often have a random urge to start cleaning.

6. Make toilets bigger - Women are fatter than ever, this progression in body size must be taken into account when designing toilets as they should be made in bigger sizes for plus-size women to shit effectively (but not too small for thin women to drown in them)

7. Challenge speciesist presumptions - As we progress as a society, many people may not identify as human, restrooms must cater to people who may wish to relieve themselves in non-human ways, such as litterboxes or cat-identified people.

8. Religious accomodations - As Allah is very impatient when it comes to prayers, muslim women often have to pray very quickly or suddenly. A prayer mat & quran should be included in restrooms to accomodate muslim women and allow them to practice their religion safely and easily.

I'd like to clarify that this is not an exhaustive list, just some recommendations I have put together.

I welcome any additions or even criticisms - after all, I try to make my feminism as intersectional as possible, so inputs are appreciated.

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