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For the full version of this article, check out our free Substack post. On a trip years before Toilet Equity existed, our founder Paul Padyk found himself standing on a wooden platform over a creek in a high Himalayan valley. There were no trees to hide behind, only the river flowing below, and the uneasy relief of needing a bathroom and not having one. The smell, the exposure, the sound of water carrying everything away: it was a small, sharp lesson in vulnerability. A few weeks later, in a...

For the full version of this article, written by TE CEO Kaitlin Louise Pettit, PhD, check out our free Substack post. At Toilet Equity, we’re used to dealing with what falls through the cracks. We give people a place to poop—it’s basically our superpower. Unfortunately, our funding sometimes does the same thing. This year, I dreamed of doubling our toilet footprint in the Grand Valley. Instead, our plans had to shrink to match our budget, leaving hundreds of neighbors—unsheltered folks, gig...

For the full version of this article, written by TE Intern Mason Bunce, check out our free Substack post . Take a moment and think about...