Emi's Presentations in 2015-2019
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.
| 2019 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/16/19 | Portland Institute for Contemporary Art | Why Decrim? Why Now? | panel with Kat Salas and Tamika |
| 11/06/19 | 5th Annual Portland Sex Workers' Art Show | From Prostitution Panic on the 82nd Avenue Ten Years Ago to Right-Wing "Neighborhood" Organizing in North Seattle Today | keynote lecture |
| 09/23/19 | Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Annual Conference | Enhancing Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade | workshop |
| 09/16/19 | Seattle Women's Commission | Impact of City's Policies on Sex Trade & Trafficking | invited presentation |
| 08/08/19 | Seattle, WA | Supporting Migrant Women Working at Seattle's Massage Parlors | a Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade workshop led by Elene Lam |
| 08/08/19 | Seattle City Hall | Rescue Hurts: real-life consequences of SPD's raids on massage parlors & how to actually support migrant women workers | presentation led by Elene Lam and joined by local activists |
| 07/10/19 | Reproductive Justice Lawyering Webiner Series | Criminalizing Bodies: How Punitive Regulations Harm Immigrant Communities and Sex Workers' Rights | webiner with Kelly Flannery and Rosann Mariappuram |
| 05/09/19 | Mirror Memoirs Salon, Portland OR | Speaking as a survivor & Mirror Memoirs founding board member | brief remark |
| 05/02/19 | Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs 2019 Annual Conference | Enhancing Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade | workshop |
| 05/01/19 | Survival at any means: A harm reduction approach to survivor advocacy | NOTES | |
| 03/28/19 | Washington State Senate Committee on Law & Justice | Testimony re HB 1382 & HB 1383 | |
| 03/25/19 | Washington State Senate Committee on Labor & Commerce | Testimony re ESHB 1756 | |
| 03/13/19 | Seattle University | From Decriminalization to Anticriminalization | guest lecture for Dean Spade's Gender and Law class |
| 02/14/19 | Washington State Senate Committee on Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation | Testimony re SB 5744 | |
| 02/14/19 | Washington State House Committee on Labor & Workplace Standards | Testimony re HB 1756 | |
| 02/08/19 | Washington State House Committee on Health Care & Wellness | Testimony re HB 1551 | |
| 2018 | |||
| 12/08/18 | Northwest Film Forum, Seattle | "The Apology" Film Screening and Panel | a FeND event featuring panel with Chong Eun Ahn, Tomomi Yamaguchi, Nina Wallace |
| 12/03/18 | Seattle City Hall | QTPOC Sex Worker Perspectives | panel |
| 11/19/18 | University of Washington at Bothel | Enhancing Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade | guest lecture |
| 11/15/18 | Art Share L.A. | Japanese Americans Demand Justice for "Comfort Women": "The Apology" Film Screening and Panel | a FeND event featuring panel with Kathy Masaoka, Setsu Shigematsu, Tani Ikeda, and Tsukuru Fors |
| 11/13/18 | Multnomah Central Library, Portland OR | "The Apology" Film screening and discussion | a FeND event |
| 10/18/18 thru 10/21/18 |
Harm Reduction Conference, New Orleans | Promoting the Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade: Finding A Common Ground Beyond the "Prostitution Debate" | workshop |
| Survival and Coping by Any means: A Harm Reduction Approach to Survivor | workshop | ||
| 09/24/18 | Briefing for US-based funders on Sex Worker Rights, New York | Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade in Seattle/King County | on panel |
| 09/13/18 | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University | Feminisms Now! | panel w/ Fatimah Asghar, Dana Bolger, Melissa Febos, and Kimberly Foster |
| 07/23/18 | Sex Work and Trafficking Policy Impact Committee, San Francisco Department of the Status of Women | Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade in Seattle/King County | brief presentation |
| 07/23/18 | Strategy Meeting for Decriminalizing Sex Work, San Francisco | Differentiating sex work and sex trafficking? It's a bit more complicated | brief presentation |
| 05/02/18 | Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs conference, Kennewick WA | Enhancing the Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade: Finding A Common Ground Beyond the "Prostitution Debate" | workshop |
| 05/01/18 | Embracing Survival and Coping by Any Means: A Harm Reduction Approach to Survivor Advocacy | workshop | |
| 03/22/18 | Invisible No More Symposium at UC Berkeley | Policing Gender, Reproduction, Sex, and Sexuality | panel w/ Monica Jones, Jill Adams, Xandra Ibarra (mod.) |
| 03/20/18 | Comfort Women Justice Coalition, San Francisco | Update on Japanese Right-Wing's Attacks on "Comfort Women" | lecture |
| 03/13/18 | University of Oregon | The Transfeminist Manifesto Revisited: 20 Years Later | lecture |
| 03/02/18 | Seattle Annual Sex Worker Symposium | Coming Together: Intersectional Activism in the Sex Worker Rights Movement | panel w/ Angela Keaton, Christa B. Daring, Maia Oliver, and Noa Suprimbe |
| 02/24/18 | Missing Persons symposium, University of California at Riverside | Negative Survivorship talk | keynote |
| 02/23/18 | University of California at Riverside | Japan's "Comfort Women" and the Historical Denial in the U.S. | lecture |
| 01/30/18 | Washington State House Committee on Early Learning and Human Services | Testimony re HB 2857 | for Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade |
| 01/25/18 | University of Washington | Defending Human Rights of Sex Workers and People in the Sex Trade | guest lecture |
| 01/16/18 | Washington State House Committee on Public Safety | Testimony in support of HB 2631 | for Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade |
| 01/11/18 & 01/12/18 |
Gay City, Seattle | Krip Resistance: To Exist is To Resist | multi-genre art show w/ Ayom Ament, Tara Hardy, Naima Niambi Lowe, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
| 2017 | |||
| 10/17/17 | Intl Conf on the Redress Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Queens College, Flushing NY | Japanese far-right activities in the U.S. and at the United Nations: Conflict and coordination between Japanese government and fringe groups | paper |
| 09/22/17 thru 09/24/17 |
Breaking Silences, Demanding Crip Justice Conference, Dayton OH | Intersex at the Intersection of Disability and Gender Justice | keynote |
| Embracing Negative Survivorship and "Unhealthy" Coping | breakout session | ||
| 08/14/17 | Washington, DC | Japanese History Revisionism Overseas: What is Japan's "alt-right" doing in the U.S.? | policy seminar |
| 08/10/17 | Sex Worker Community Summit on Criminal Justice Reforms, Washington DC | Multiple Criminal Justice Reform Strategies: Reaching the Decriminalization of Sexual Labor and Survival | panel |
| 08/09/17 | California Coalition Against Sexual Assault | Embracing Negative Survivorship and "Unhealthy" Coping: Harm Reduction and Survivor Advocacy | a Mirror Memoirs workshop |
| Sex Work Can Help Us Survive | a Mirror Memoirs panel | ||
| 05/17/17 | LGBTQ Allyship | Disability Justice and Economic Justice | training for LGBTQ worker education |
| 05/10/17 | Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs | Transgender Justice Beyond "Bathroom Access" | workshop |
| 05/09/17 | Embracing Negative Survivorship and "Unhealthy" Coping | workshop | |
| 03/03/17 | Seattle Annual Sex Work Symposium | The "Harms" of Prostitution | panel with Ceyenne Doroshow, Elene Lam, and Tobi Hill-Meyer |
| 2016 | |||
| 12/17/16 | Portland Q Center | Speech for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers | cancelled due to inclement weather |
| 11/17/16 | American Studies Association, Denver CO | Transphobia in Bed, Bath, and Beyond | invited panel with Susan Stryker and Aren Zachary Aizura |
| 11/10/16 | Indiana University, South Bend | Rescue is for kittens: state violence and the impact of anti-trafficking policies on queer and trans youth in the sex trade | lecture |
| 11/04/16 | National Harm Reduction Conference, San Diego CA | "Stop Throwing Condoms at Us!" Survival, Risk-Management, and Lived Realities of Trans Women of Color and Others in the Sex Trade | workshop |
| Embracing Negative Survivorship and Unhealthy Coping: A Harm Reduction Approach in the Movement Against Domestic and Sexual Violence | workshop | ||
| 05/19/16 | Belltown Community Center, Seattle | Transgender Rights: A Feminist Issue | panel |
| 05/15/16 | El Centro de la Raza, Seattle | Queer & Trans API #RethinkSafety | panel |
| 04/18/16 | Gay City, Seattle | National Transgender HIV Testing Day | panel [read] |
| 04/03/16 | Association for Asian Studies, Seattle | The "Comfort Woman" Controversy and Historical Revisionism in Japan and the U.S. | panel with Hirofumi Hayashi, Yukiko Hanawa, Katsuya Hirano, and Tomomi Yamaguchi |
| 02/22/16 | Women of Color Network Regional Gathering, Seattle | Re-Centering Justice: Innovative Advocacy for Survivors | panel with Susan Burton and Janetta Louise |
| 02/19/16 | Outreach Cross-Training, Seattle | Intersectionality | training |
| 01/09/16 | Gay City, Seattle | (More than just) Trans 101 | in-service training |
| 2015 | |||
| 12/19/15 | Gay City, Seattle | Stigma Kills | panel sponsored by Sex Workers Outreach Project [facebook] |
| 11/04/15 | California Institute of the Arts | Transfeminism | in-class guest lecture over Skype |
| 10/27/15 | Barnard College, New York City | Against Japanese 'Comfort Women' Denialism in the U.S. | lecture [facebook] |
| 10/26/15 | Ramapo College, Mahwah NJ | Intersex Awareness Day/Queer History Month | keynote [facebook] |
| 08/27/15 & 08/28/15 |
San Franciso City Hall | "Comfort Women" Issue in the U.S. | policy briefing |
| 08/06/15 | "Comfort Women" Justice Coalition, San Francisco | Confronting Jpanese Right-wing Revisionism in the U.S. | workshop |
| 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] |