Kathryn Anthony Interviews

Kathryn Anthony’s publications have sparked media attention on CBS Sunday Morning and in CNN, National Public Radio, Time, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, ESPN.com, The Guardian, The New York Times, Radio New Zealand, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Sandi Klein’s Conversations with Creative Women, Toronto Star, and elsewhere. She has testified before Congress regarding gender equity in public restrooms.

Check out her podcast with BWBR:

“Equity in the Built Environment.” Episode 19 for “A Side of Design” Podcast with Host Sophia Good. BWBR. (November 9, 2021). https://www.bwbr.com/equity-in-design-creating-thoughtful-and-inclusive-spaces/

Check out her interview on Radio New Zealand:

Check out this front page cover story from The San Diego Union Tribune (July 13, 2017): “Kathryn Anthony didn’t set out to become the princess of potty parity. The Illinois professor and sometime San Diegan has made it her life’s work to study and write about how the design of products and places shapes our everyday lives.”

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/sd-me-design-anthony-20170713-story.html

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The fight for potty parity: how sports venue toilets value men over women

A controversy over bathrooms at Edmonton Oilers playoff games had the team’s female fans in an uproar.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/11/edmonton-oilers-womens-bathrooms-female

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Dove’s soap bottles sell plastic female ’empowerment’. Don’t buy it.

http://www.macleans.ca/society/dove-is-selling-plastic-female-empowerment-dont-buy-it/

Dove Soap msn.com

The soap-maker gives an unintended lesson in how female ’empowerment’ is exploited for profit and political currency

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University of Illinois News Bureau’s press release about Defined by Design

https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/481228

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It doesn’t matter how you’re built or what your gender is — one size never fits all, but most consumer products are made with the assumption that one size will fit most.   http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/03/18/sorry-design-just-hates-you/JO2uBxNNYlZ5cdbfN80PuN/story.html

How Stores Are Designed To Fat Shame Store layouts often discriminate against plus-size shoppers, writes professor Kathryn Anthony. What can be done about it? https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068975/how-stores-are-designed-to-fat-shame

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A line for the women’s restroom at the Imperial Theater, where “Les Misérables” played last year, extended down the hallway and staircase and into the lobby at a performance.Credit Hilary Swift for The New York Times

Paulson, Michael. “Broadway’s Bathroom Problem: Have to Go? Hurry Up, or Hold It.” The New York Times (Feb. 7, 2017). https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/theater/broadways-bathroom-problem-have-to-go-hurry-up-or-hold-it.html

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Lopez, German. Texas’ anti-transgender bathroom bill, explained. Texas’ lieutenant governor is leading the charge for a new bathroom bill—by touting a big myth.” Vox.com (January 5, 2017).  http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/5/14173882/texas-transgender-bathroom-law-lgbtq

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Heckel, Jodi. “Universal podium design helps keep the focus on a speaker’s message.” Illinois News Bureau.  (June 1, 2016). https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/369247

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“Kathryn Anthony Addresses Gender-Neutral Bathroom Design.”  College of Fine and Applied Arts News, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  (May 27, 2016). https://faa.illinois.edu/news/kathryn-anthony-addresses-gender-neutral-bathroom-design

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“Transgender bathrooms: An architectural perspective.” My Science.org. (May 26, 2016). https://www.myscience.org/wire/transgender_bathrooms_an_architectural_perspective-2016-illinois

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Heckel, Jodi. “Transgender bathrooms: An architectural perspective.” Illinois News Bureau. (May 26, 2016). https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/366402

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Lopez, German. “Anti-transgender bathroom hysteria, explained.” Vox.com (May 20, 2016).http://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11592908/transgender-bathroom-laws-rights

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Sutter, John D. “Transgender rights. ‘We need a restroom revolution.’” CNN.com (May 9, 2016). http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/opinions/sutter-gender-neutral-restrooms/index.html

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La Ganga, Maria L.  “From Jim Crow to transgender ban:  the bathroom as battleground for civil rights.”  The Guardian. (London, UK) (March 30, 2016).  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/transgender-ban-bathrooms-north-carolina-civil-rights

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Ferris, Laurie.  “Where are they now? Kathryn Anthony.” I-House:  Where UC Berkeley Meets the World. (June 29, 2015). https://ihberkeley.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/where-are-they-now-kathryn-anthony/

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Bliss, Laura. The Lack of Equal Bathroom Access for Women is a Global Design Flaw.” The Atlantic. Citylab. (November 7, 2014). http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/11/the-lack-of-equal-bathroom-access-for-women-is-a-global-design-flaw/382418/

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Delap, Josie.  “Sexual equality and sanitation:  Flushing away unfairness.”The Economist. (July 10^th – 16^th 2010), p. 60. http://www.economist.com/node/16542591

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“Potty Parity’ Bill to End Some Long Ladies’ Room Lines ”  ABC News , abcnews.go.com       (May 12, 2010). http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-considers-potty-parity-bill-women/story?id=10624844

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“Hearing Held on Gender Parity in Federal Building Restroom Facilities.”  Ms. Magazine.Ms.Magazine.com (May 13, 2010).  http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=12398

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Dwyer, Devin.  “’Potty Parity’ Bill to End some Long Ladies’ Room Lines:  Congress Sees Lingering Gender Discrimination in Unequal Toilet Facilities for Women.”  ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (May 12, 2010). http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-considers-potty-parity-bill-women/story?id=10624844&page=1

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Branch, John.  “Ballpark Statisticians Follow A New Count, the Toilet Ratio.”  The New York Times. (Monday, April 13, 2009), pp. A-1, A-14.  Kathryn Anthony selected as Quotation of the Day, p. A-3.   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/sports/baseball/13potty.html

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Daugherty, Paul. “No easy call in trying to plan a potty break at the ballgame.”  USA Today. (April 15, 2009).   http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/daugherty/2009-04-15-potty-waiting_N.htm

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