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		<title>New zine about trauma and self-cutting available at Portland Zine Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cutting: A Diary is a brand new zine about trauma and self-cutting. It is released at Portland Zine Symposium this weekend, and is only available in person (with some exceptions&#8211;contact me) unlike my other zines. I don&#8217;t want any random person to download or order it online because it is very personal. Note: Reading this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/86</link>
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		<title>VICTORY: City of Portland funds &#8220;housing first&#8221; pilot program for women leaving prostitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was attending the Desiree Alliance conference in Las Vegas, there was a big news in Portland: YWCA of Greater Portland received a $900K federal grant to create a shelter for girls and women under the age of 18 who have been &#8220;trafficked&#8221; (and I put the word in quotation marks because the legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/79</link>
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		<title>New Zine Release &#8211; Surviving the Witch-Hunt: Battle Notes from Portland&#8217;s 82nd Avenue, 2007-2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the Desiree Alliance conference this week, &#8220;Working Sex: Power, Practice, and Politics,&#8221; which I am already starting to feel depressed about already by the way, I have published a new zine, &#8220;Surviving the Witch-Hunt: Battle Notes from Portland&#8217;s 82nd Avenue, 2007-2010.&#8221; Surviving the Witch-Hunt chronicles the resistance against the massive anti-prostitution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/73</link>
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		<title>City and County commissioners continue to broadcast smooth lies that comfort citizens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Wednesday, I attended the afternoon session of Portland City Council to hear its report on human trafficking—or rather, domestic minor trafficking (only one speaker, someone from Catholic Charities, spoke about a different form of human trafficking, that is the exploitation of migrant workers in labour trafficking). I knew what I was getting myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/71</link>
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		<title>Recommendations on Medicaid funding of surgeries for intersex individuals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recommendations for Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Re: Medicaid Funding for Remedial Surgeries for DSD Emi Koyama Director, Intersex Initiative My name is Emi Koyama and I am the director of Intersex Initiative, a national advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions, or disorders of sex development (DSD) as they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/67</link>
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		<title>I am going to attend Desiree Alliance conference after all.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an update to an earlier post about being awarded &#8220;merit based&#8221; &#8220;diversity&#8221; scholarship to attend Desiree Alliance conference, which actually wasn&#8217;t a scholarship at all. Recently while I was talking to some people in the sex worker advocacy field about my recommendations about sex trafficking on Craigslist, I was asked if I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/63</link>
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		<title>Unpacking the myth: &#8220;the average age of entry into prostitution is 13&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several years, I have been trying to correct the inaccurate notion that the &#8220;average age of entry into prostitution is 13&#8243; wherever I see it, but it is becoming increasingly overwhelming. This figure is in newspapers, official reports from City of Portland, and many websites and pamphlets claiming to confront sex trafficking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/62</link>
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		<title>Addressing Craigslist&#8217;s &#8220;trafficking problem&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week, someone from a national organization working to end violence against women contacted me and asked for my view about addressing the problem of sex trafficking on Craigslist. The inquiry is related to the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women&#8217;s planned protest at the headquarters of Craigslist, which is calling for Craigslist to prohibit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/61</link>
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		<title>How I am excited to receive merit-based scholarship to attend a diverse conference. Not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago, I sent in an application for &#8220;diversity scholarship&#8221; to attend this year&#8217;s Desiree Alliance conference for activists, scholars, and social workers involved in advocating for sex workers. The conference will take place in Las Vegas late July. Since I have recently become unemployed, and my grass-roots organizing in the sex worker&#8217;s rights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/60</link>
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		<title>Rejected workshop proposal for Oregon Disability Megaconference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a shame that they didn&#8217;t think this was important enough to include in this huge annual conference. Title: Organizing Support and Social Group for LGBTQ People with Developmental Disabilities within and beyond the Staley/Brokerage System Description: In January 2010, Bridges to Independence hosted a historic drag show featuring performers with and without developmental disabilities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eminism.org/blog/entry/59</link>
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