Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space

Signs prescribing our permission to enter or abstain from specific places, such as those on toilet doors, mark murky borders between quasi-public and private space have profound impacts upon lives identities. In this paper we draw research which centred trans, queer disabled people's experiences of in/exclusion explore how the signs doors shape access away home therefore their use public more broadly. We argue that International Symbol Access (ISA) both delivers a false promise accessibility maintains disability through (re)enforcing particular imaginary disability. note forced reliance toilets in institutional commercial settings when that, under capitalism, is persistently restricted by its potential be lucrative.