Toshio Meronek

1 month ago | 48hills.org | Toshio Meronek |Uta Tamate

Last year, a coalition of Japanese American activists and our allies, delayed the 2024 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Parade for 14 minutes to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Mar 30, 2024 | truthout.org | Toshio Meronek

At a recent pageant at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush emerged onto the stage in a chain mail-and-mesh dress. As Gaza’s museums lie in rubble from Israeli bombs, cultural spaces like this in the United States have become battlefields in their own way, in a war involving several factions: Zionist funders, free speech activists and pro-Palestinians artists, to name a few.

Jan 11, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Toshio Meronek |Tofu Estolas |Mama Ganuush

Mama Ganuush is an African Palestinian American drag artist living in San Francisco. Right now, they're combining direct action, performances, and Bay solidarity to combat Israel's campaign of cultural erasure and colonization - a campaign led locally by gay Israel subs Matt Dorsey, Rafael Mandelman, and Scott Wiener.

Dec 30, 2023 | podfollow.com | Toshio Meronek |Tofu Estolas

Clocking Copaganda f/ Abe Woodliff (@realbayareamemes) Abe Woodliff on how it's impossible to actually predict when a meme will hit, writing, and the shocking lack of negatives there are to existing authentically. Plus his recent piece on who wins and loses from fake narratives around crime rates.

Oct 27, 2023 | truthout.org | Zane McNeill |Wendy Elisheva Somerson |Stefanie Fox |Toshio Meronek

“None of us are free until all of us are free,” the Dyke Project said.