#which is not to say all library bathrooms fulfill those criteria and of course there's still policing of the library space

[thepoisonroom]

did anyone else read that book about the distribution and gendering of public bathrooms in mumbai and how that infrastructure is an indirect means of policing who’s allowed to exist in public because like. i think that coffeeshop owners should have to read it.

#as a librarian i've gained a huge appreciation for what libraries provide just by having freely accessible public bathrooms #which is not to say all library bathrooms fulfill those criteria and of course there's still policing of the library space #but it's certainly something i think about a lot #the way that urinetown technically was very on the nose as a dystopian vision especially with like #public indecency laws and the way they're used in conjunction with offender registries #personal nonsense