Emi's Presentations
Below is the almost complete list of past and future workshops, lectures, etc. that Emi has presented or will present. She is always seeking additional speaking engagements - please feel free to inquire by email.
You can also view some of the slides from Emi's presentations on various topics.
Date | Venue | Title | Notes |
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06/04/15 - 06/05/15 |
UCLA Trans-Pacific Workshop | What researches on contemporary sex trafficking inform us about historical "comfort women," or vice versa | panel |
05/03/15 | Intertwined: Women of Color Conference, Eugene OR | Rejecting Victim/Survivor Dichotomy: From Individual Mandate to Collective Action | workshop |
05/02/15 | Rethinking Responses to Youth in the Sex Trade | workshop | |
04/18/15 - 04/19/15 |
Queer Students of Color Conference, Portland OR | Building a Queer BIPOC Coalition to Unravel "Three Pillars of White Supremacy" | workshop |
03/28/15 | Color of Violence conference, Chicago IL | Rejecting Victim/Survivor Dichotomy: From Individual Mandate to Collective Action | workshop |
03/27/15 | Don't believe the hype about sex trade in popular media | workshop with Kelli Dorsey and Native Youth Sexual Health Network | |
Anti-trafficking Policies and the Deputiation of Social Service | workshop | ||
01/29/15 | University of Oregon Eugene OR | "Intersexion" Film Screening | guest speaker following film [facebook] |
12/14/14 | Seattle Annual Sex Worker Symposium | Rights Not Rescue | panel w/ Maggie Mayhem, Kristen Di'Angelo, Eileen Corcoran |
11/14/14 | University of California, Los Angeles | Confronting Japanese Right-Wing Organizing in Southern California | a FeND workshop [info] [facebook] |
10/11/14 | FallOut Art Festival, Portland OR | Negativity and Survival | lecture featuring poems and stories |
10/10/14 | cutting: a diary (intro) | performance | |
09/13/14 | Northwest Reproductive Justice Summit, Seattle WA | Anti-criminalization: A reproductive justice approach to empowering and advocating for people in the sex trade | lecture |
05/09/14 | Queer Students of Color Conference, Portland OR | Negativity, Survival, and Bottom-Up Feminism | keynote |
04/21/14 | Claremont Colleges, Claremont CA | Disability Justice, Transgender Justice, and Intersex Rights | lecture [facebook] |
Zine-Making in My Activism and Research | lecture | ||
03/31/14 | Freedom Network Conference | Anti-Trafficking Movement and the State Violence | pre-conference panel |
Deputization of Social Services in the Era of Anti-Trafficking Movement | pre-conference gathering | ||
03/26/14 | University of Washington School of Medicine | System Failure Alert!: Building Power for Street Youth and Others Navigating Social and Medical Services | "diversity cafe" talk |
03/14/14 | University of Vermont Student Conference on Race, Gender and Sexuality | On Becoming a Bottom-Up Feminist | keynote |
03/07/14 | Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, Portland OR | Gender and Disability | panel |
03/05/14 | Western Washington University | Rescue is for Kittens: Rethinking Responses to Youth in the Sex Trade | lecture |
11/27/13 | Oregon Department of Human Services, District 2, LGBTQ Youth Working Group | trans/queer youth and the sex trade | invited talk |
10/28/13 | Social Justice class, Portland State University | Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | in-class presentation |
10/16/13 | Syracuse University, Syracuse NY | Disability Justice and Intersex Rights | LGBT & Disability Coming Out Month |
10/11/13 | Gallaudet University, Washington DC | The Uses of Negativity: Survival and Coping Strategies for Those of Us Who Are Exasperated by the Empty Promise of "It" Getting "Better" [full text] | National Coming Out Day keynote |
09/27/13 | St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Detroit MI | Negative Survivorship: Reclaiming "Victim" and Embracing Unhealthy Coping | hosted by Fender Bender and HAVEN [facebook] |
09/26/13 | International Human Trafficking, Prostitution, and Sex Work Conference, Toledo OH | Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | workshop |
08/20/13 | KBOO radio | On Queer/Feminist Theory Reading Group | interview |
08/17/13 | Ivanice Harris March for Justice, Portland OR | SWOC Rep Speech | brief remark (text) |
08/08/13 | Forging Justice Conference, Detroit MI | Being Intersectional: How Intersectional Analysis Informs an Alternative Framework to Empower People in the Sex Trade | opening plenary |
07/18/13 | Desiree Alliance Conference, Las Vegas NV | Fighting Criminalization: Beyond "Legalization" vs "Decriminalization" | workshop |
07/17/13 | Trafficking Panel: What's Really Going On? | panel | |
07/11/13 | API Chaya | Working with People in the Sex Trade | in-service |
06/26/13 | Multnomah County STD Clinic | Sex Workers & Harm Reduction | in-service |
06/15/13 | Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference | API Trans/GNC Voices | panel |
05/22/13 | San Francisco Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival | Anti-Trafficking and the Carceral State | lecture & discussion |
05/23/13 | Oral Services: Sex Worker Spoken Word | spoken word | |
05/14/13 | Beyond Carceral State: Queer, Feminist, Anti-Racist Critiques and Interventions, University of Washington, Bothell | Resisting War on Trafficking: Toward a Coalition Against Criminalization | keynote |
03/27/13 | Washington State University, Vancouver Campus | Film "Intersexion" | film screening and Q&A |
03/10/13 | SMYRC, Portland OR | Cast in "More Than Two Monologues" | [facebook] |
02/09/13 | MBLGTACC 2013, Lansing MI | Negative Survivorship: Discussion | workshop |
02/08/13 | The Uses of Negativity: Survival and Coping Strategies for Those of Us Who Are Exasperated by the Empty Promise of "It" Getting "Better" | keynote | |
01/10/13 | University of Washington Q Center, Seattle WA | "War on Trafficking"? Resisting Criminalization as Solution to the "Modern Day Slavery" | lecture [facebook] |
12/17/12 | International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Portland OR | Decriminalization vs. Anti-Criminalization | related blog entry |
11/17/12 | TransConnect, Portland Q Center | Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | workshop [slides] |
11/18/12 | Harm Reduction Conference, Portland OR | Youth vs. the Social Service Industrial Complex: How Anti-Trafficking Hysteria is Dismantling Harm Reduction Movement | panel on sex work and the law enforcement [slides] |
Portland Bad Date Line: Limitations and Challenges | panel on bad date lines [slides] | ||
11/16/12 | Negative Survivorship: Reclaiming "Victim" and Embracing Unhealthy Coping | part of Addressing Violence panel [slides] | |
Unpacking the Media Spectacle of Sex Trafficking | part of Trafficking Wars panel 2 [slides] | ||
11/15/12 | Confronting the "War on Trafficking": Empowerment-Based Alternatives to Anti-Prostitution Policing and Prosecution | part of Trafficking Wars panel 1 [slides] | |
04/21/12 | Northwest Women's Studies Association, Portland OR | Reclaiming "Victim" and Embracing Negative Survivorship: Exploring Alternatives to the Heteronormativity and Neoliberalism of the Trauma Recovery Industry | paper |
03/14/12 to 03/16/12 |
Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium | Embracing Negative Survivorship and Unhealthy Coping: Resisting the Compulsory Optimism and Hopefulness of the Trauma Recovery Industry | see abstracts |
Media Spectacle of Sex Trafficking and the Invisible Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | |||
03/11/12 | TRANSforming Gender Conference, University of Colorado | Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | keynote |
03/08/12 | Montana State University, Bozeman MT | Rethinking the "Comfort Women" Discourse in Japan and the U.S.: An Observation from an Activist in Sex Worker, Asian American, and Anti-Trafficking Movements | invited lecture, Gender Issues in Contemporary Japan course |
Intersex Representation in Japanese Comics: Possibilities and Limitations | invited lecture, Pop Culture in Japan course | ||
03/07/12 | Intersex at the Intersection of Disability and LGBT Movements | lecture for Bozeman LGBTIQ Resource Center | |
03/03/12 | Northwest SWOP, Seattle WA | International Sex Worker Rights Day | panel |
02/18/12 | Sex Trafficking in the U.S. conference, Corvallis OR | The Neglected Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade: How Mainstream Anti-Trafficking Discourse and Media Spectacle Invisibilize Trans Youth |