'Zines by Emi Koyama

War on Terror & War on Trafficking: A Sex Worker Activist Confronts the Anti-Trafficking Movement"

Published in May 2011, War on Terror & War on Trafficking is a product of Emi's extensive research into the mainstreaming and the militarization of the movement against domestic "sex trafficking" in the United States in which Emi argues that the movement that was once feminist has been taken over by Christian fundamentalists and the Prison- and Military-Industrial Complex. (Please also donate $$$ to help support research and activism!)
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Surviving the Witch-Hunt: Battle Notes from Portland's 82nd Avenue

This zine chronicles the resistance against the massive anti-prostitution panic in east Portland neighbourhoods between 2007 and 2010 where women trying to survive working on 82nd Avenue were targeted by baseball bat-wielding, camera phone-snapping, vigilante "community foot patrol" and other angry neighbours worried about their property value.
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Whose Feminism Is It Anyway? and Other Essays

Designed as an introductory "reader" on Emi Koyama, this new collection includes the two classic transfeminist articles (from "Transfeminism: A Collection," which this zine replaces) along with newer writings on such topics as the "new" fat-positive feminism, transracial and international adoption, and intersex.
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Disloyal to Feminism: Abuse of Survivors within the Domestic Violence Shelter System

"Disloyal to Feminism" is a paper about transforming the movement against domestic violence. Also included are the "power and control" wheel depicting the abuse of survivors by DV shelters, and several other documents.
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Emi is also responsible for these publications from Intersex Initiative, an organization she directs.

Instigations from the Whore Revolution: A Third Wave Response to the Sex Work "Controversy"

Archive of Emi Koyama's online battles with academic anti-prostitution feminists and more. Includes photos from the Sex Workers' Art Show National Tour 2002.
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Interchange #6

Two years after the issue #5, the sixth collection of Emi's online postings is back. Interchange #6 does NOT contain any mention of Michfest controversy, but instead it takes on trans activism, academia, moral panic, GenderPAC, and the anti-hate crime and anti-violence movements.
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Interchange #5

"Interchange #5" is the fifth in the series of 'zines made up of Emi Koyama's postings to various email lists and message board. Emi takes on self-congratulating liberal academics, sex positivity, pimp-friendly "sex workers'" clinic, and of course transphobia within feminism (as always).
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Interchange #4

"Interchange #4" is the fourth in the series of 'zines made up of Emi Koyama's postings to various email lists and message board. This time, Emi explores such touchy topics as activism vs. scholarship, male privilege and transwomen, lack of accountability in animal rights activism, gender identity disorder reform, international adoption, and cultural appropriation.
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