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
The Filmmakers Behind ‘Criminal Queers’ Explain Why “Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition”
Toshio Meronek
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Trans Prisoners Fight Abuse
Trans prisoners and queer-rights groups protest unfair treatment behind bars.
Toshio Meronek
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.