Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies · 2010 · 74 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesGender StudiesPolitical ScienceFeminist TheoryQueer StudiesQueer TheoryActivismLgbtq PoliticsQueer Political PerformanceQueer PoliticsQueer SpaceSexual PoliticsBathroom PoliticsCoalitional PoliticsPublic RestroomsQueer Collective ActionQueer Political TheoryQueer Social MovementsSexuality PoliticsSpatial Politics Of Movement
PISSAR (People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms) offers an instructive example about the possibility for critically queer and disabled politics. Using public bathrooms as a site of activism, PISSAR, through the consubstantiality of shame, demonstrates the mutually constitutive and performative properties of bodies interacting in space. PISSAR's actions provide pedagogical insight into the negotiation of coalitional politics, especially those politics inflected with queer concerns.