emi koyama
activist, writer, rogue intellectual
seattle / portland
rightsandsafety.org • aileens.org
more links: linktr.ee/emikoyama
- i was invited to speak on a panel about transfeminisms but i think im going to speak about cisfeminisms instead.
- Reposted by emi koyamaSeattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:
- I’ve filled records requests, wait for a couple of years, and then I had to cancel them because they became too old to be relevant and they kept newer request from even being taken up. We need to move public records office out of SPD, the only city department with its own records system.
- Seattle Police systemically undercounts BIPOC people who are arrested and charged with crime. Among people charged with prostitution-related crimes, most people who are marked as "white" and "unknown" are likely Latinos, and 80% of total are BIPOC in a city that is 60% non-Hispanic whites.
- HB 2526 #waleg endangers people in the sex trade further. If you live in 33rd LD (all or part of Kent, Des Moines, Seatac, Tukwila, Renton, Burien) or 38th LD (Everett, Marysville) especially, please ask your reps to oppose 2526 RIGHT NOW before committee vote Tuesday. app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2526
- Fred Korematsu is my kind of hero. Unlike principled resisters like Gordon Hirabayashi or Minoru Yasui who openly defied the EO to invite prosecution, Korematsu changed his appearance, name, and identity to escape. He only became a fighter after he was arrested anyway and visited by ACLU lawyers. …
- Thinking of my Japanese American elders today, their resistance, their bravery in the face of state violence. “Were you afraid of being arrested?” Fred Korematsu: “No, I wasn’t because I didn’t feel that I did anything wrong. If anybody did wrong, it was the law.” www.instagram.com/reel/DUJAjhC...
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- I checked. And yes he did say OfferUp.
- They say you can't make sex work safe so the only option is to abolish it. I say you can't make police and prisons and borders safe so the only option is…?
- Reposted by emi koyamaCounty Prosecutors Give Lurid Presentation on Sex Work Featuring Unredacted Images of Brutalized Women to Seattle Council Committee The point of the prurient presentation: “You can’t make sex work safe,” one deputy prosecutor said. publicola.com/2026/01/28/c...
- We Participate in King County’s 2026 Human Trafficking Prevention Month Proclamation / Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade rightsandsafety.org/we-participa...
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- Prosecutors say that it was ok to use these photos because they are already public in some obscure court records somewhere. You know what that means? Prosecutors are telling survivors that if they prosecute our traffickers and abusers, …
- … photographic evidence including photos of our highly revealing brutalized, bloodied, tortured bodies with our faces intact are fair game for them to use in any way they see fit. Who will trust them to protect us, like ever? I’m telling you, I’m not going to let this go.
- And she’s running for reelection this year.
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- i spoke out against KCPAO’s exploitative and gratuitous use of a series of photos of brutalized and bloodied women survivors in my public comment before the presentation even started, because I saw them posted on the city’s website before the meeting. i thought perhaps …
- Thank you the commenter and thank you @councilmember-amr.bsky.social @alexis4seattle.bsky.social
- Also I can’t be certain that I didn’t mishear but did CM Saka actually say anything about people being trafficked on OfferUp? Maybe he was talking about used Wayfair furnitures?
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- And here’s the text of my brief remark at my acceptance of the 2026 Human Trafficking Prevention Month proclamation at King County Council this afternoon.
- After King County prosecutors described me as someone too traumatized to think correctly (i.e. agree with them), I’m about to accept the Human Trafficking Prevention Month proclamation at the King Council Council Chamber and give a brief remark. Watch live kingcounty.gov/en/independe...
- Thank you Erica @ericacbarnett.bsky.social for the step by step reporting of this highly offensive and sickening presentation by King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office this morning.
- KCPAO slide suggests that we need to pass the legislation increasing penalty for sex buying to prepare for FIFA World Cup. But the World Cup will be long gone by the time any bill passed in this legislative session goes into effect.
- That’s a meeting organized by Rep. Goodman’s office that was supposed to be about listening to why we oppose the bill. But they chose to hold it at the KCPAO office (not a friendly place for us) and invited bunch of pro-criminalization groups to drown us out.
- They. Don’t. Respect. Survivors.
- My public comment to the Seattle Public Safety Committee this morning before the pornified KCPAO presentation.
- Reposted by emi koyamaThe King County Prosecutor's Office is currently doing an exceptionally exploitative presentation about sex trafficking to the Seattle City Council that includes slides of identifiable bloodied, brutalized women and identifiable women who are nude or nearly nude.
- Reposted by emi koyamaMayor Wilson — turn off the cameras.
- i forgot how to sleep or eat
- Monday in #waleg: I'm supporting SB 6017 app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/... which establishes procedure for judge to appoint a legal representative for defendant representing themselves in sexual and domestic violence cases to prevent victim-witness from being cross-examined directly by the defendant. …
- i fucking hate how survivors supporting and opposing the bill both are made to feel compelled to share their trauma stories one after another in an effort to influence legislators emotionally in an open forum that is the legislative hearing. isn’t there a better way?
- Last call #waleg : sign in CON to stop HB 2526 further criminalizing sex trade: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
- kitti says legislative hearings are boring (i’m sitting in house community safety committee in olympia rn)
- Last call #waleg : sign in CON to stop HB 2526 further criminalizing sex trade: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
