Toshio Meronek

Toshio Meronek is coauthor of the book Miss Major Speaks and host of the podcast Sad Francisco; they have reported on housing and queer politics for Truthout since 2013.

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Human Rights

Meet the Drag Artists Using Their Platforms to Combat the Genocide in Gaza

Drag artists are defying corporate media censorship to uplift the Palestinian liberation struggle.

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

March 30, 2024

Interview

LGBTQ Rights

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

May 14, 2023

News Analysis

LGBTQ Rights

In a Violent Year for LGBTQ People, These Are the Ways We Coped and Fought Back

A year-end round-up of LGBTQIA+ news and cultural shifts.

By: Toshio Meronek &; Eric A. Stanley ,; Truthout

December 29, 2022

Interview

LGBTQ Rights

New Book Explores Why “Inclusion” Can’t Bring an End to Anti-Trans Violence

“Atmospheres of Violence” argues that the U.S. political system depends on violence against trans people.

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

May 30, 2022

Interview

LGBTQ Rights

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, We Mourn Those Killed. What About the Living?

Several trans justice organizations have decided to also honor the people who survive against the odds.

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

November 20, 2021

News Analysis

LGBTQ Rights

The Year of COVID, Elections and Police Brutality Also Saw LGBTQ Activism

This year has reaffirmed that queer and trans liberation is inextricable from the liberation of all marginalized people.

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

December 31, 2020

News Analysis

LGBTQ Rights

Abel Cedeño and Queer Youth of Color Are Still Caged for Self-Defense

U.S. courts routinely imprison queer people of color who defend themselves against anti-queer, anti-trans attackers.

By: kyliemax grove-peattie &; Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

August 1, 2020

Op-Ed

LGBTQ Rights

LGBTQ Activists Took on ICE, the Corporatization of Pride, and More in 2019

2019 was a year of incredible protests and radical responses from LGBTQ communities to injustices around the world.

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

December 31, 2019

News Analysis

Prisons & Policing

Cities Across US Are Stripping Homeless People of Their Autonomy

Politicians in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego are attacking the self-determination of homeless people.

By: Toshio Meronek &; Tory Becker ,; Truthout

February 10, 2019

News Analysis

LGBTQ Rights

Eight LGBTQ-Led Social Justice Struggles the Corporate Media Missed in 2018

Queer and trans people organized in 2018 to curb capitalism, end deportations and challenge police violence.

By: Toshio Meronek ,; Truthout

December 28, 2018

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