Emi's Presentations in 2010-2014
Below is the almost complete list of Emi's workshops, lectures, etc. in 2010-2014. She is always seeking additional speaking engagements - please feel free to inquire by email.
| 2014 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2013 | |||
| 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] |
| 2012 | |||
| 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 | |
| 2011 | |||
| 11/20/11 | Transgender Day of Remembrance, Portland State University | Erasure of Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade: How Transgender Community, Sex Workers' Movement, and Anti-Trafficking Movement Fail Transgender Youth | keynote (see slides) |
| 11/04/11 | Justice in Transition: Serving the Transgender Community in Law and Practice, New York University Law | Erasure of Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | panel on transgender youth |
| 10/31/11 | Portland State University | Erasure of Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade | invited class lecture / test-run for 11/04 |
| 05/27/11 | San Francisco Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival | Real Feminists and Human Rights Activists Don't Buy Ashton: Sex Workers Responding to the Anti-Trafficking Panic | workshop for sex worker skillshare |
| 05/19/11 | University of Oregon Eugene OR | War on Terror & War on Trafficking | lecture |
| 05/12/11 | YWCA of Clark County Vancouver WA | Violence Against Sex Workers | in-service training |
| 05/02/11 | Sex Worker Outreach Coalition | Understanding the U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking Movements | peer training |
| 03/30/11 | Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI | War on Terror and War on Trafficking: How Irrational Panic over "Modern-Day Slavery" Harms Women | lecture |
| 03/18/11 | Portland State University Women's Resource Center | Women of Color Zine Workshop Series: Activism and zine-making | guest presenter |
| 03/16/11 | Santa Clara Law | Intersex and the Law | panel with Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice |
| 03/03/11 | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg PA | Intersex | lecture |
| 03/02/11 | Red & Black Cafe, Portland OR | feature performer, Unite for Sex Worker Rights | spoken-word |
| 2010 | |||
| 12/16/10 | Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center | Intersex | in-service training |
| 11/16/10 | Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY | Intersex/Disability/Queerness | |
| 11/15/10 | Yale University, New Haven CT | Transgender Inclusion? or Demilitarizing the Borderlands of the Binary Gender System. Oh, and No Means No. | part of Trans Week |
| 10/26/10 | University of Oregon, Eugene OR | Intersex Awareness Day 2010 | lecture |
| 06/14/10 | Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR | "Hermaphroditism," Intersex, DSD: Two Decades of Intersex Advocacy Movement and Its Impact on Treatment Today | part of Cultural Competency Lecture Series |
| 03/17/10 | Brown University, Providence RI | Demilitarizing the Borderlands of the Binary Gender System | workshop |
| 03/13/10 | Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, Portland OR | Disabling Assumptions: Disability and Sexuality | panel |
| 02/26/10 | Montana State University, Bozeman MT | Convergence of Xenophobia and (Pseudo-)Feminism Online: Japanese Internet Users' Responses to Mainichi Shimbun's Denigrating Depictions of Japanese Women and Girls | class lecture for Tomomi Yamaguchi |
| 02/23/10 | Washington State University, Pullman WA | Intersex | lecture |
| 02/20/10 | Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference 2010, Madison WI | (Introduction to) Intersex Actiism | workshop |
| Gay Imperialism and Its Alternatives | workshop | ||
| 01/19/10 | Gender Blender, 100.7 FM KBOO | Interview about LGBTQ people with developmental disabilities | live interview on radio |
| 01/11/10 | Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland OR | CELEBRATE! Drag Performances featuring Artists with Developmental Disabilities | producer and director for a benefit show for Bridges to Independence |