Publications

Handy Publication/Media Links

• ARA Co-founder Dr. Steven Soifer, Ph.D. highlighted in the US Guardian: “Rushing to McDonald’s, sneaking into Trump Tower: the desperate struggle to find a public toilet in New York” – 6-8-24 – The Guardian
• A comprehensive look at Colorado’s public restroom challenges with quotes from ARA Co-founder Dr. Steven Soifer: “When you gotta go, where to go? The crappy state of Colorado’s public restrooms” – 4-7-24 – The Colorado Sun
• Recently rescued from the ARA Archives: Co-founder Bob Brubaker in the Wall Street Journal – “Small Merchants May Run Afoul Of Rules on Restroom Access” – 7-26-05
• Points of Light Foundation spotlights ARA Board Member Amith Saligrama in “Massachusetts Teen Advocates for Public Bathroom Accessibility” – 12-7-23
• “Where to go when nature calls? Seattle has a public restroom problem” – The Seattle Times – 10-8-23 (Dr. Steve quoted)
• “Public bathrooms are vital for everyone” – Bangor Daily News – 9-7-23 (editorial board in support of their 7-28-22 article, see below)
• Where did our public toilets go? – The Nation – 8-29-23 (ARA Co-Founder Dr. Steven Soifer’s work highlighted)
• “Cities struggle to solve the public restroom problem” – RouteFifty.com – 8-28-23 (Board Member Megan Welsh Carroll and ARA Co-Founder Dr. Steven Soifer)
• Mixed reviews for Seattle’s new multiuser all-gender airport restrooms – WORLD News Group – 8-14-23
• Chicago considers installing public restrooms with revenue from company that manages bus stops – Medill Reports – 5-10-23 (See the companion video with Dr. Steve’s comment here starting at 4:00)
• First come, first served: There is an art, and an etiquette, of queues | Connecticut Public (ctpublic.org) 5-9-23 podcast featuring Dr. Steve at 42:00
• “California cities don’t have enough public bathrooms. Here’s one solution” – LA Times – 5-8-23 from ARA Board Member, Megan Welsh Carroll
• “Why are public restrooms still so rare?” – New York Times – 3-22-23 
• Listen to ARA Board Member Chad Kaufman, President of the Public Restroom Company, discuss restroom privacy on the inaugural “Really? No, Really?” podcast with Seinfeld star Jason Alexander. 2-7-23
• “Starbucks under pressure to keep restroom open to public” – The Guardian – 11-18-22
• “Toilet Travails Flush Out City’s Inability to Just Get Things Done” – SF Standard – 10-24-22
• “First come, first served: There is an art, and an etiquette, of queues” – Colin McEnroe Show, Connecticut Public Radio – 9-22-22 (Dr. Steve at 40:00)
• “Where are all of Kansas City’s public restrooms? Here’s where to go when you need to go” – NPR-Kansas City – 9-17-22
• “Can Downtown Grow Without an Upgrade to Public Restrooms?” – Pittsburgh Magazine – 9-16-22
• “Disconnected and ‘dehumanized’: How thousands across Phoenix survive without running water” – azcentral – 9-11-22
• Bangor Daily News 7-28-22 – “Public bathrooms are essential, yet cities struggle to provide them” (subscription req.)
• “America is Not Made for People Who Pee” – New York Times – 3-6-21 and the matching published Letter to the Editor from ARA Secretary, Brad Polsky. (subscription may be required)
• ARA Press Release – WTD 2021
• CBS Sunday Morning (video) 7-26-20 “Revisiting the public restroom” featuring ARA VP Kathryn Anthony
• ARA Press Release – School Re-Opening – July 14 2020 final
• ARA Press Release 11-17-19 World Toilet Day
• Private Toilets at Pompeii: Appearance and Operation
• Projecting and building the Cloaca Maxima
• Deposition of Bacteria and Bacterial Spores by Bathroom Hot Air Hand Dryers – American Society for Microbiology, 2/9/18
• The Art of Urination – New Yorker, 2017
• Oldest Toilet in Denmark found – Ars Technica, June 2017
• Reinventing the Toilet, 2017
• Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time
• Void Where Prohibited Revisited:  The Trickle-Down Effect of OSHA’s At-Will Bathroom-Break Regulation
• Managing Incontinence – Cheryle Gartley, Jameson Books, 1985
• Forced Retention of Bodily Waste:  Overlooked, Child Maltreatment – L.A. Couture, M.Ed.
• Using the Bathroom Is Your Right Not a Privilege! (for kids) – L.A. Couture, M.Ed., 2001
• Bathroom Business: OSHA’s Restroom Rules
• Restrooms for All: A Plan to Expand Gender Neutral Restrooms in NYC
• How Bathroom Stick Figures Became Universal Symbols
• The Genius of Toilet Signs
• Personal Space Invasions in the Lavatory