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

Islands in the Sand

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Last Exit

San Francisco Magazine

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

The Invisible Punishment of Prisoners with Disabilities

The Nation

Trans protest scene from the 1960s.

Be Killed or Be Caged

The Advocate

SELECTED WORK

Toshio Meronek

I’ve written about housing and houselessness, queer culture, and race for outlets including Al Jazeera, In These Times, and The Nation. My work also features in anthologies such as 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: Militant Queer Strategies.

Miss Major Speaks, a collaborative book project with the Black, trans activist icon Miss Major will be published in spring 2022.

Read more of my past work here, and get very occasional updates via email and on Twitter.