title: Derivative plumbing: redesigning washrooms, bodies, and trans affects in ds+r's Brasserie.
abstract: diller scofidio + renfro's Brasserie restaurant sets the scene for this article's overarching question: what are the stakes of absorbing "the washroom" into our affective habits as trans people? This article uses architectural theory to show that some hygienic models of transgender-such as "original plumbing"-are less about explaining our genders to ourselves and more about (1) communicating our "fuckability" to (presumably non-trans) others and (2) codifying subtle and often problematic beliefs about the relationship between architecture and the body.
authors.affiliation: a Simon Fraser University , Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada.
authors.forename: Lucas Cassidy
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Crawford
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D008297:Male; D012147:Restaurants; D012498:Sanitary Engineering; D014038:Toilet Facilities; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*