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I Need To Pee!

Lloyd Center Mall, Portland, OR. 06-2024
Conducted as part of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice Program annual Assembly, I installed an all user restroom in the family bathroom at Portland’s Lloyd Center Mall for one day on June 8th, 2024. I remade the mall signage to better instruct users on how to access the “family restroom,” the only non-gendered restroom in the mall, which also required a security guard to open. Accompanying the signage change, which was quickly removed by mall security, were paper towels that asked the questions “where is the center of your body?”, “what do you need right now?”, and “what does safety feel like in your body?”, and a zine detailing the project. I also arranged basic needs supplies in the bathroom, such as pads and tampons, narcan, water, and candies to make the bathroom more inviting and accessible for the many different kinds of people who might use it. After some back and forth with security, I was asked to removed the supplies, begging the question: what threat does an accessible restroom pose? 

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kudos to Lillyanne Pham’s website for introducing me


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