diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2d3d31c7..be2aed48 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # [unreleased]
 
+# 0.16.1
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+* Change `PartialEq` implementations to compare IDs with string literals from `str` to `&str`
+  * This is technically a breaking change, but the previous implementations were extremely
+    unlikely to actually be used
+
 # 0.16.0
 
 Breaking changes:
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e9c35ce6..d19f2d69 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 name = "ruma-identifiers"
 readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/ruma/ruma-identifiers"
-version = "0.16.0"
+version = "0.16.1"
 edition = "2018"
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
diff --git a/src/macros.rs b/src/macros.rs
index b823ff20..881f5292 100644
--- a/src/macros.rs
+++ b/src/macros.rs
@@ -83,15 +83,15 @@ macro_rules! common_impls {
             }
         }
 
-        impl ::std::cmp::PartialEq<str> for $id {
-            fn eq(&self, other: &str) -> bool {
-                self.full_id == other
+        impl ::std::cmp::PartialEq<&str> for $id {
+            fn eq(&self, other: &&str) -> bool {
+                self.full_id == *other
             }
         }
 
-        impl ::std::cmp::PartialEq<$id> for str {
+        impl ::std::cmp::PartialEq<$id> for &str {
             fn eq(&self, other: &$id) -> bool {
-                self == other.full_id
+                *self == other.full_id
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/room_version_id.rs b/src/room_version_id.rs
index 603a5085..02cd7bf4 100644
--- a/src/room_version_id.rs
+++ b/src/room_version_id.rs
@@ -218,15 +218,15 @@ impl TryFrom<String> for RoomVersionId {
     }
 }
 
-impl PartialEq<str> for RoomVersionId {
-    fn eq(&self, other: &str) -> bool {
-        self.as_ref() == other
+impl PartialEq<&str> for RoomVersionId {
+    fn eq(&self, other: &&str) -> bool {
+        self.as_ref() == *other
     }
 }
 
-impl PartialEq<RoomVersionId> for str {
+impl PartialEq<RoomVersionId> for &str {
     fn eq(&self, other: &RoomVersionId) -> bool {
-        self == other.as_ref()
+        *self == other.as_ref()
     }
 }