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  • Emi is available to speak at your organization, school, or classroom! Check out her profile, and contact her to inquire. Thanks!

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
08/08/13
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08/10/13
Forging Justice Conference, Detroit MI TBA plenary
TBA workshop
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
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 workshop
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
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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