Publications
Handy Publication/Media Links
- “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
- “Eat This with Yara” – Al Jazeera 8-22-22 – “Why is it SO HARD to find a public bathroom in the U.S.?” Don’t blink or you’ll miss an uncredited(!) Dr. Steve at 11:26
- Newsy 8-16-22 – “Why Public Restrooms are So Rare in America”
- Bangor Daily News 7-28-22 – “Public bathrooms are essential, yet cities struggle to provide them” (subscription req.)
- ARA Press Release – World Toilet Day 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.
- The Infrequent Voider – Radiology, 5/1969 Vol 92 P1177
- 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
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