Toshio Meronek is San Francisco-based writer who has reported for Al Jazeera, The Nation and Vice. His work also appears in Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison-Industrial Complex and The Long Term: Surviving and Resisting Life in Prison. He is a former editor of The Abolitionist, the newspaper of the anti-prison industrial complex organization Critical Resistance. Follow him on Twitter at @tmeronek.
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YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis
Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash.
Toshio Meronek
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Toshio Meronek
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Trans Prisoners Fight Abuse
Trans prisoners and queer-rights groups protest unfair treatment behind bars.
Toshio Meronek
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