Emi Koyama
Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice slut who synthesizes feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, slut, intersex, genderqueer and crip politics. Emi is the founding director of Intersex Initiative Portland and has presented extensively on intersex activism, working-class sex worker feminisms, and the domestic violence "industry."
Emi is also the founder of Confluere and is responsible for putting the "emi" back in feminism via Eminism.org.
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Selected Presentations
- "Integrating Intersex Health Into the LGBT Health Movement." Plenary panel, LGBTI Health Summit, Boulder CO (August 2002).
- "Shelter as a Tool of Social Control: Is there a domestic violence industrial complex?" Keynote, Women's Herstory Month at New York University (March 2002).
- "Coalition Politics and the Intersex Movement." Keynote at "True Spirit" conference, Washington DC (February 2002).
- Plenary panel, "Queerness and Disability" conference at San Francisco State University (June 2002).
- Plenary panel, "Beyond Visibility: Queer People of Color Shattering the Single-Issue Politics" conference at Yale University (February 2002).
- "Emergence of the Intersex Medical Reform Movement: Where We Are Now?" Columbia University (March 2002).
- "Implementing Survivor-Centered Mechanisms to Hold Service Providers Accountable." National Coalition Against Domestic Violence conference, Orlando FL (August 2002).
- "Moving Beyond the Theoretical Impasse: Working-Class, "Pro-Sex" Activist Prostitutes on Poverty, Homelessness, and Violence." National Women's Studies Association conference, Las Vegas NV (June 2002).
- "The Whore Revolution: Articulating the Working-Class Sex Worker Feminisms." "Gender and Sexuality" conference, Evergreen State University (May 2002).
- "Informed Consent and the Intersex Youth: Who Owns Our Bodies?" "Children from the Shadows" conference, Hartford CT (March 2002).
- "Building a Harm Reduction based Advocacy Movement for Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence." "Color of Violence" conference, Chicago IL (March 2002).
Selected Performances
- FarGirl Speaks! A Celebration of Size, Self and Sexuality" (2003)
- Olympia Sex Workers' Art Show (January 2002; February 2003)
- Toured with Sex Workers' Art Show National Tour (November-December 2002)
- Sluts Against Rape: An Evening of Performances to Reclaim and Celebrate Our Bodies and Sexualities (November 2002)
- Rated XXXY: An Evening of Performances Reflecting Intersex Experiences Benefiting Intersex Society of North America (October 2002)
- Intercourse: A Sex and Gender Spoken-Word Recipe for Revolution (Northwest) (May 2002)
- Intercourse: A Sex and Gender Spoken-Word Recipe for Revolution (June 2001)
Selected Publications
- "Disloyal to Feminism: Abuse of Survivors within the Domestic Violence Shelter System." The Color of Violence: INCITE! Anthology ed. by Andrea Smith, Beth Richie & Julia Sudbury. 2006.
- "From Social Construction to Social Justice: Transforming How We Teach About Intersexuality" (co-authored with Lisa Weasel). Women's Studies Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2002.
- "The Transfeminist Manifesto." Catching A Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century ed. by Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier.
- "I Hated Being a Girl (Or, How I Became a Transfeminist)." Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, iss. 69.
- "Born Queer: Intersex People Resist Medicalization." GLMA Report (Gay and Lesbian Medical Association). Fall 2001.
- "A Fest in Distress" (roundtable) in Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Summer 2002.