Toshio Meronek
At a Glance:
Toshio Meronek has been a Project Contributor since November 2010, has written 24 entries and currently lives in San Francisco, CA.
Bio
Toshio Meronek is a San Francisco-based writer whose work has appeared in Austin Chronicle, Bitch, Dwell, Huffington Post, SF Weekly, and many other publications. He edits The Abolitionist (the journal of Critical Resistance, a collective dedicated to fighting the prison industrial complex), blogs about disability and pop culture at Where's Lulu, and makes computer music.
Toshio Meronek: Recently Filed
May Day Activists Spotlight the Cece McDonald Case
Filed by Toshio Meronek | May 02, 2012 12:00 PM |CeCe McDonald's trial started April 30, but her supporters have been working for months to get the Minnesota judge overseeing her case to drop it. Yesterday, activists brought Ms. McDonald's fight to the May Day protests.Read More
Hole's Drummer Patty Schemel on Her New Bio-Documentary
Filed by Toshio Meronek | April 26, 2012 11:00 AM |Today she walks dogs for a living and has a family, but the movie focuses on the Hole years, which turned dark due to addiction and music-industry sexism. Patty came out publicly as lesbian in a 1995 issue of Rolling Stone.Read More
Positive Thinking as a Cure for AIDS?
Filed by Toshio Meronek | March 29, 2012 3:30 PM |At events she dubbed "Hayrides," Louise Hay raked in thousands of dollars from AIDS-afflicted audiences who paid her to help them heal using her meditation and positive-thinking techniques. Days, weeks, and months later many of these followers were dead.Read More
Director Evan Roberts on His Short Film about Length
Filed by Toshio Meronek | February 10, 2012 3:00 PM |Director Evan Roberts's short film "33 Teeth" focuses on Eddie, a 14-year-old who creeps on his neighbor Chad while he's in the bathroom measuring himself with a comb. Evan and I talked recently about moviemaking, teen angst, and size obsession.Read More
A New Place for Queer Homeless Youth in Atlanta
Filed by Toshio Meronek | December 21, 2011 12:00 PM |Rick Westbrook and his Atlantan Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are helping some queer youths facing a problem that affects the LGBTQ community more than almost any other segment of the population: homelessness.Read More
