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 thru08/10/13 |
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 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 |