Photo of Delbert Wakinekona on the beach on his home island of Hawai'i.

Islands in the Sand

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Aunt Charlie's Lounge sign and entrance.

Last Exit

San Francisco Magazine

That protest scene from the 1960s featuring trans people.

Be Killed or Be Caged

The Advocate

President Barack Obama signs some papers, with a token person in a wheelchair nearby

The Invisible Punishment of Prisoners with Disabilities

The Nation

Group of queer homeless youth and allies in San Francisco's Tenderloin district (ca. 1968), called Vanguard, amidst a 'Street Sweep' action in response to attacks by city and corporate interests that worked to rid the city of queer houseless people

All Trash is Before the Broom

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ABOUT

Toshio Meronek is based in San Francisco and writes about housing and queer politics.

Preorder Miss Major Speaks, a collaboration with the iconic Black trans activist, from any bookstore. for outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Nation, and Truthout.

Toshio’s work features in the anthologies Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex; Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance; Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, and the forthcoming Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies.

Read past work here, and get very occasional updates via email and Twitter.