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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 37–54.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Susan Stryker Abstract This series of elliptically interrelated autotheoretical vignettes offers a “wayward genealogy” of how the author came to be involved in the Stalled! public toilet redesign project and what that project entails. The article revolves around observations of the actions...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 4. Stalled! gender-neural public toilet project. Design concept for high-traffic areas such as airports. Courtesy of the Stalled! project. More
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Figure 5. Stalled! gender-neutral public toilet project, research methodology. Courtesy of the Stalled! project. More
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Figure 6. Public toilet, Helsinki Public Library, 2020. Photograph by Susan Stryker. More
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
... familiar sites of sexological persistence (the sex-segregated public toilet) but also less immediately obvious ones (the Moynihan report, redlining, the army base) as executing the unfinished business of the sexological project. This breadth of sexological diffusion makes its analysis a necessarily...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 167–177.
Published: 01 December 2014
... the Toilet” on LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play about homophobic violence, José offers a reading of the tragic outcome of The Toilet, noting that the powerful denouement comes only in the final stage directions, after dialogue had ceased. “Battered...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 155–160.
Published: 01 March 2018
... fully. Think about what it means to be a carer, to take a job as a carer, in a “First World” country. It means wiping white people’s butts. Logistics, the protection of supply chains and the defense of trade against competition, ensures that not only the toilet paper but also the person paid to do...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 87–107.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in God’s name did it emerge? © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 In the Men’s Room E. B. Tylor and the Will to Systematize John Lardas Modern Men passing in and out of the toilets, men zipping their flies as they turn from the trough and other men approaching the long receptacle...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 97–105.
Published: 01 December 2008
...: Stanford University Press, 2003). 23. José Esteban Muñoz, “Cruising the Toilet: LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Radical Black Traditions, and Queer Futurity,” in “Queer Temporalities,” ed. Eliza- beth Freeman, special issue, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13 (2007): 364. 24...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 121–147.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the COVID-19 pandemic was something I thought would occur in the United States only in times of severe natural disaster. The doomsday scenario of seeing grocery shelves stripped bare and hearing nervous talk about the scarcity of meat products and toilet paper reminded me of the panic buying I witnessed...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (3 (104)): 39–65.
Published: 01 September 2010
... you would put pigeons”;44 and sanitation, particularly the filthy state and disgusting smell of the portable toilets. Conversely, Marie Nicole St. Louis’s deposition is relatively brief but chronicles her distinct and extreme experiences...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 19–47.
Published: 01 June 2020
... I refused I was again taken to another room where I was made to lie on the floor with three persons holding me down. A tube was inserted into my anus and water poured inside. Afterwards I wanted to go to the toilet as I had a feeling as if I had diarrhoea. No toilet access was provided until four...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of his digital archive. Elahi has taken thousands of time-stamped images of each meal before he consumes it and of bathrooms that he visits after. Photographed looking down at the dinner table or the toilet, the images display his bodily perspective just before an action takes place. The subject...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 105–125.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to the kind of crisis that often begins with a plopping sound, as when an iPhone slips out of a pocket and into a toilet bowl. Harvey lost his copy of Capital in the days before the Internet, but it was a loss comparable to the loss of a smartphone or a jumpdrive—any one of the objects we use as containers...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 69–86.
Published: 01 September 2014
... tenuous economic circumstances. She worked as a domestic servant and was so overweight that she had problems doing the dishes for her employer and for her own family, nor could she squat on the toilet. Her husband was a night watchman (chowkidar...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 81–101.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to excrement and urine in informal settlements such as Khayelitsha is constant: where toilets are available, they are communal, underserviced, and rarely formally plumbed, making them perennially blocked, dangerously unlit, and foul. Mostly, residents are forced to relieve themselves outdoors, although...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (4 (97)): 31–50.
Published: 01 December 2008
... on the toilet, on sanitation. But to dwell on the scat of the sewer is to miss the way in which the call for electricity — from Marie-Sophie and Texaco and Geor- gia’s residents — is not a call for necessity or survival but for something else...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... entrance to toilets, access to domestic violence shelters, and participation in play parties all spin on normative narrations of who can experience sexual violence and expect it to be recognizable as such. I would say that any invocation of “predatory behavior” needs to be read with a trans studies...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 79–100.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of trucks, on toilet paper, and in countless other locations. His face was held up as an icon of enmity; an object to be destroyed, disfigured, or, synecdochically, defaced. His pictures were cleaned up and Photoshopped — almost beautified as if in preparation for their sacrifice...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 69–95.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of México branch at the Matamoros crossing prompted citizens that they were not only biopolitical subjects but macroeconomic subjects, collectively contributing to the balance of international payments. The design included a separate toilet for those who would be “detained,” a reminder of the force...
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