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.
| 2025 | |||
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| 07/04/25 | Socialism 2025 conference, Chicago | Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance | panel w/ Yves Tong Nguyen, Chanelle Gallant & Elene Lam |
| 06/20/25 | Puget Sound Sage & CID Coalition, Seattle | FIFA World Cup and Sex Trafficking Moral Panic | part of "FIFA Neighborhood Teach-In" |
| 06/10/25 | Massage Parlor Outreach Project, Seattle | Massage Laws in the U.S.: Options for Worker-Centered Policy Advocacy in Washington State | research report back |
| 05/25/25 | Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle WA | Enemy Feminisms | conversation w/ Sophie Lewis |
| 02/27/25 | Freedom Network USA Annual Conference | Advancing Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade | workshop |
| 02/11/25 | University of Washington Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies | Toward Intersex Futures (a.k.a. Intersex Against Cisness) | panel w/ Sean Saifa Wall & Amanda Saenz |
| 2024 | |||
| 02/24/24 | University of Chicago | Harm Reduction | invited speaker |
| 02/24/24 | NUCHR Annual Conference, Northwestern University | What Survivors Want (and Won't Get from the Criminal Legal System) | workshop |
| 02/23/24 | Abolition Democracy and Sex Work Decriminalization | keynote | |
| 02/22/24 | University of Chicago | Sex Worker Movements | invited speaker |
| 2023 | |||
| 11/05/23 | Mirror Memoirs Abolition Book Club | Liberatory Harm Reduction and "Saving Our Own Lives" by Shira Hassan | invited speaker |
| 04/27/23 | Third Wave Fund | Sex Worker Giving Circle Movement Strategy Session | facilitation |
| 04/15/23 | Montrose Center / University of Houston | No Saviors, No Prisons: Sex Workers Speak! | panel |
| 04/14/23 | University of Washington | Communities of Care for Disability in the Academy and Beyond | Geography Colloquium panel w/ Audra Mitchell & William Carter |
| 04/01/23 | Transgender Day of Vengeance (CANCELED), Washington DC | Taking Vengeance Seriously | invited speech |
| 03/30/23 | Dickinson College, Carlisle PA | Revisiting the Transfeminist Manifesto | lecture |
| 03/16/23 | Hing Hay Park, Seattle | Massage Parlor Outreach Project vigil for Atlanta shooting victims | invited speech |
| 02/20/23 | National Survivor Network | Radical Nonjudgement in Survivor Advocacy: Harm Reduction in Practice | panel with Rose Kalemba, Sinnamon Love, and Chibundo Egwuatu |
| 02/14/23 | White House Gender Policy Council | Consultation through Freedom Network | |
| 2022 | |||
| 12/14/22 | Multnomah Central Library | "WE ARE AILEEN'S" Screening | honoring International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers |
| 12/17/22 | Aileen's | ||
| 12/13/22 | Bluestockings Books, New York | Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction | panel with Shira Hassan, Kiara St. James, and Viva Ruiz |
| 10/12/22 | Legal Aid Services for Human Trafficking Survivors | Supporting People in the Sex Trade | OVCTTAC Training |
| 2021 | |||
| 10/28/21 | University of Texas, Austin TX | Intersex Justice and Disability Justice | panel w/ Sean Saifa Wall |
| 10/19/21 | Montana State University | The Transfeminist Manifesto Revisited | lecture |
| 09/24/21 | City of Seattle Public Safety and Human Services Committee | Centering Impacted Voices: Community Task Force Report on the Criminal Legal System | report to the Council |
| 05/26/21 | University of Washington, Bothell | Strategies for supporting Immigrant and survival sex workers | Part of Labor in the 21st Century colloquia, w/ Kari Lerum |
| 03/28/21 | KAOS GL International Feminist Forum, Istanbul | The Transfeminist Manifesto Revisited | lecture |
| 03/22/21 | Massage Parlor Outreach Project | Seattle Vigil for Atlanta Massage Workers | |
| 03/18/21 | Red Canary Song | Vigil for 8 lives lost in Atlanta shooting | representing Massage Parlor Outreach Project |
| 03/04/21 | Third Wave Fund Sex Worker Giving Circle | Creating Community Is a Threat to Power: Three Years of Resourcing Revolution and Liberation at the Sex Worker Giving Circle | panel, representing Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade |
| 02/24/21 | University of Washington Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies | Massage Parlor Outreach Project Teach-In | with Massage Parlor Outreach Project |
| 2020 | |||
| 11/18/20 | University of Washington, Bothell | Sex Work Policy Activism: Centering Trans & BIPOC Leadership | panel with Tobi Hill-Meyer |
| 11/13/20 | Seattle Goodwill | Supporting Sex Workers & People in the Sex Trade | in-service training with Aileen's |
| Harm Reduction Basics | |||
| 05/23/20 | University of Washington, Bothell | Strategies for supporting Immigrant and survival sex workers | part of Labor in the 21st Century series |