Bathrooms as Battlegrounds for Equality Historically and Today
Professor Samuel Singer, University of Ottawa, is presenting the next New Feminist Research Lecture
Date: Monday, March 25
Time: 12-1pm
Location: MLT Aikins Lecture Theatre (Room 150), 15 Campus Drive
About the event
Bathrooms have long been battlegrounds for equality, including fights for women's access to bathrooms, for accessible facilities for people with disabilities, and against racial segregation. The right to use a bathroom safely and privately is fundamental to individual privacy, dignity, and bodily autonomy. Yet despite the decades-long recognition of trans people's rights to bathroom access under Canadian law, discrimination continues daily, and bathrooms remain sites of potential violence for many. At the same time, recent political efforts threaten the very foundation of these fundamental rights. This talk calls for us to move beyond ‘stalled’ progress to bathroom rights for all.
Samuel Singer (BCL/LLB, LLM) is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Professor Singer's research interests focus on tax administration and dispute resolution and the regulation of non-profits and charities. Professor Singer is also a scholar and advocate on trans legal issues.
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