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emi koyama @eminism.org · 01/06/2026

Massage Parlor Organizing Project (of Seattle) which I helped to start 7 years ago has stylish new bilingual merch for fundraiser! www.instagram.com/p/DY-w_KfAZM... I’m buying the swallow totes for myself and Crush ICE shirt for my nephew. Get great designs and support migrant worker organizing!

merchandise fundraiser design page screenshot

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 28/05/2026

someone who draws a super cute picture of a chihuahua waiting for me at home while i remain at the hospital is a definition of a good friend. art by mihobaker on insta (not on bsky)

a very cute color pencil or pen drawing of a chihuahua sitting on a red pillow with white polka dots and staring at the viewer. it says “KITTI.”

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 28/05/2026

The minute Church of Harm Reduction (a 501c3 nonprofit tried to use Paypal Giving Fund as a way to accept donations for @aileens.org they permanently ban CHR’s Paypal account. No reason is given.

email at 11;55am today from paypal notifying that church of harm reduction’s paypal account was permanently deactivated.

email from paypal is formalistic and didn’t explain why. it says “After a review, we found unusual activity on this account that we can't support.”

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 26/05/2026

hey folks, i’ve been very sick. i’m currently in hospital, my fourth since getting diagnosed in january. despite that my prognosis is good, as most medical issues are arising from side effects of chemotherapy and not cancer itself. …

person (me) in fashionably chemo buzz cut smiling to a chihuahua (kitti) wearing red sweater

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 16/05/2026

The report cautions that actual overdose death rate among American Indians/Alaskan Natives are much higher, though it is hard to know how much. Various data sources count AI/AN differently and they are often miscarried.

chart showing how AI/AN category is researched and analyzed can influence resulting data, suggesting much higher AI/AN overdose deaths than simple reporting indicates

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 16/05/2026

King County’s new Racial Disparities in Opioid Use Outcomes report is out. cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king... Despite overall reduction in overdose deaths, racial/ethnic gaps persist, especially harming Black and American Indian/Native Alaskan communities.

overdose death rate breakdown by race/ethnicity in king county. 34.6 per 100k in king county vs. 92.7 among Black/African American, 54.3 among American Indian/Alaskan Native, 44.9 among Hispanic, 40.7 among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, 30.6 among White, 10.4 Asian.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 28/04/2026

amyone knows where I can get this zoom filter wig for real?

fancy pink rig filter i used to use during in pandemic. The background is the pumpkin field designed by Yaoi Kusa.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 15/03/2026

Getting ready for the vigil this morning @ Hing Hay Park in Seattle’s Chinatown/International District.

chihuahua watches as humans set up stage for 5th anniversary vigil for the 2021 atlanta spa shooting victims in a park

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 14/03/2026

Sorry, I misclassified one of the cases involving an actual minor as a CSAM verdict when it should have been labeled "lesser charge." In that particular case, the plea included Rape of a Child in the 3rd degree (C felony), which is statutory rape and is a lesser charge than CSAM (B felony).

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 14/03/2026

… I divide 22 cases into three categories: cases involving actual minors (4), cases involving detectives presenting themselves as minors in street stings (6). and cases involving detectives presenting themselves as minors online (12). Most cases end in lesser, and often fictitious pleas. …

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 14/03/2026

I obtained case files from CSEC (commercial sexual exploitation of children) charges filed by King County Prosecuting Attorney's office in 2023. Of 22 completed cases targeting defendants charged with CSAM (commercial sexual abuse of a minor) or attempted CSAM, but only 2 resulted in CSAM verdict. …

Slide from King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office titled "2023 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) charges filed: 38 charges in a total of 32 cases, 31 defendants." Shows Attempted CSAM (23), CSAM (6). Human Trafficking 2nd (5), and CSAM Promoting (4).

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 05/03/2026

I'm at the beginning stage of researching the impact of Seattle's chronic nuisance property ordinance that was expanded by the City last year. Historically, chronic nuisance property ordinace has been used against motels, strip clubs, and other venues where people perform legal and illegal sex work.

Presentation slide created by the Office of the Mayor and presented on June 14, 2025 as the City discussed expanding chronic nuisance property ordinance. Slide shows five most recent declarations of chronic nuisance property between July 2020 and April 2025, three of which involve prostitution among other things.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 05/03/2026

In December 2025, Seattle Police Department sent a "chronic nuisance property" enforcement letter threatening legal actions in part because someone called 911 to seek assistance for overdose. Penalizing businesses for seeking medical assistance disincentivizes it and causes preventable deaths.

screenshot from the list of "nuisance activities" at a business showing an incident on 5/17/2025 that says "SPD officers were dispatched to an overdose at REDACTED. The call reflected a male was OD'ing on ketamine and cocaine. When officers arrived, the fire department was administering aid to one person inside the club and one person on the sidewalk outside. THe person inside was pronounced dead at the scene."

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 02/03/2026

Updated version with data from all of 2025. Official numbers give the impression that only a small fraction of people who are charged with prostitution-related crimes in Seattle are BIPOC, but in reality 80+% are BIPOC in a city whose population is 60% "non-Hispanic whites."

Chart: Officially recorded race for individuals charged with prostitution-related crimes or had prostitution exclusion orders issued at Seattle Municipal Court in 2025. Large type pointing out "INACCURATE & MISLEADING"

Chart: Likely Race/Ethnicity (p>.85) for individuals charged with prostitution-related crimes or had prostitution exclusion orders issued at Seattle Municipal Court in 2025

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 24/02/2026

I don't doubt that there are some fraudulent sign-ins by opponents of the millionaire's tax, but the timestamps from these tens of thousands of sign-ins against the bill appear largely organic, pealking around lunchtime and dipping around 1-2am and also showing a different pattern for the weekend.

line graph showing cyclic pattern of people who signed in "con" against the millionaire's tax

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 13/02/2026

Just received another public record from King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

Full page PDF covered in black rectangle with the letters "1A" at the top

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 11/02/2026

when i show this pic of my chihuahua kitti when she was a baby, people used to say “she likes like a stuffie.” now people say “oh my god, she looks like AI-generated!”

tiny baby chihuahua held in someone’s hand

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 05/02/2026

Here's a spreadsheet showing the list of individuals who were charged with prostitution-related crimes in Seattle between 1/1/25 and 9/15/25 (we are in the process of obtaining newer data). Case numbers and names are blocked from view to protect privacy.

Spreadsheet showing the list of individuals charged with prostitution-related crimes, along with their officially recorded race, most likely race and ethnicity based on probablistic prediction, and probability assigned to that prediction. case numbers and names are blocked from view.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 05/02/2026

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.

Chart showing racial breakdown of individuals charged with prostitution-related crimes and/or issued prostitution exclusion orders at Seattle Municipal Court between 1/1/2025 and 9/15/2025. According to the official record, about half are white, followed by "Unknown" at 27%. Bold letter over the chat says "inaccurate."

Chart showing racial and ethnic breakdown of individuals charged with prostitution-related crimes and/or issued prostitution exclusion orders at Seattle Municipal Court between 1/1/2025 and 9/15/2025. In this chart, defendant's full name is used to make a probalistic prediction about their race and ethnicity, and uses the probable race/ethnicity over the officially recorded one if the probability is above 85%. This time it shows about half are Latino, and people of color make up more than 80% combined in a city that is about 60% non-Hispanic whites.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 27/01/2026

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.

Thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda and the entire King County Council, for your continued leadership in addressing human trafficking in our region, and for the opportunity to speak to you today.
My name is Emi Koyama and I am a survivor and longtime advocate. I am the director of Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade and a co-founder/co-director of Aileen’s, a peer-led community hospitality space, street outreach, and leadership development program by and for women working along the Pacific Highway in south King County, mostly operating in Federal Way and Kent/Des Moines area, Districts 5 and 7.
I am particularly pleased to see that this year’s proclamation calls attention to socioeconomic conditions that produce vulnerabilities to exploitation and abuse. We all know by now that Black and Indigenous children, youth and adult women, queer and trans folks, immigrants, and members of other marginalized communities are at vastly heightened risk of being exploited and abused, but we have not done enough to explore why this is so and how to remedy these underlying conditions, other than simply naming racism or transphobia. But nobody is born vulnerable: we are made vulnerable due to the organized abandonment and the failure of public policies.

We often talk about holding those accountable for the exploitation and abuse of another person, but we don’t hold ourselves accountable for the failures of our public policies to provide adequate food, housing, healthcare, jobs, education, childcare and eldercare, and equitable access to opportunities and dreams worth striving toward. We talk about how Black and Indigenous women are particularly vulnerable to trafficking and yet fail to consider reparations for centuries of publicly sanctioned possession and control over Black bodies from the Slavery to Black code and convict leasing to mass incarceration, or the actual, material restoration of indigenous land, resources, and sovereignty that indigenous peoples need to protect their own communities.
We at Aileen’s reach about a hundred women each year who regularly or on occasions engage in or have engaged in the sex trade. We know exactly what they want and need in order to protect themselves and their children, improve their lives, and go from simply surviving to thriving, but the resources are not there. No amount of policing and prosecution after the fact stops trafficking when we continue to ignore socioeconomic conditions that produce and unevenly distribute vulnerabilities in a predictable pattern.
So on this day of the King County proclamation of the Human Trafficking Prevention Month, I hope that its call to address underlying socioeconomic conditions to exploitation and abuse would lead to an honest self-reflection as to how our public policies have failed and made vulnerable members of specific communities, and a real realignment of where we expend enormous resources and powers of the government.
Thank you very much.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 27/01/2026

Thank you King County Council!

2026 king county proclamation for the human trafficking prevention month

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 27/01/2026

My public comment to the Seattle Public Safety Committee this morning before the pornified KCPAO presentation.

My name is Emi Koyama and I am the director of Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade and a co-founder/co-director of Aileen’s, a peer-led community space, street outreach, and leadership development project by and for women working along the Pacific Highway in south King County. We reach about 100 mostly homeless, majority Black and indigenous women. I am testifying to provide an alternative perspective in anticipation of KCPAO’s presentation on sex trafficking.

Prosecutors operate within an adversarial criminal justice system, which focuses on winning convictions and cutting plea deals rather than truth-seeking, genuine remorse and contrition, and restoration of survivor and community wholeness. They also bring this adversarial approach to policymaking, which does disservice to our city and its residents.

In the slides KCPAO has prepared for the committee, you will see prosecutors throw any and all arguments to see what sticks, regardless of representativeness or soundness of their sources. They use a mix of images including stock photos, screen capture from a fictional drama film, image provided by surveillance data analytics vendor Palantir that provides a faulty special app for ICE agents to geolocate and recognize faces of citizens and immigrants, photo stolen from online advertisement of someone who still works as an escort, and a series of photos of brutalized, bloodied women that show their faces, in complete disregard for their safety, privacy, or dignity.

They instrumentalize Black and Indigenous women’s particular vulnerabilities to abuse and exploitation without offering any remedies addressing socioeconomic conditions that produce those vulnerabilities. They selectively quote and weaponize survivor testimonies that are useful in ceding further power for the law enforcement, while neglecting how the law enforcement is also a source of violence in the lives of many women we know. They silence voices of survivors who do not agree with the prosecutors’ ideas of how we protect and empower the most vulnerable among us.
Policymaking should not be adversarial. Efforts should be made to gather those most impacted by any given issue whether they align with the law enforcement or not, and amplify the voices of the most vulnerable without preconceived agenda. Prosecutors have a role to play in these conversations, but their dominance is unwarranted and disrespects survivors.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 24/01/2026

… Following the incident, the legislature considered a bill designed to protect victim-witnesses from being directly questioned by the defendant, but the bill failed. It has been 15 years since and it is long overdue that this legislation is finally enacted. …

Clipping from January 12, 2011 edition of The Seattle Times. Article titled "Protecting victims in court" discusses a legislation proposed by Rep. Goodman

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 24/01/2026

… Back in 2010, a young woman panickily climbed up to the rooftop of the King County Courthouse in Seattle and almost jumped off after she realized that she would be cross-examined directly by a man alleged to have sexually abused her, her sister, and other young girls during the 1990s. …

Clipping from Seattle Times article on November 4, 2010:

Threat to jump off roof may derail case
November 5, 2010 | Seattle Times, The (WA) | Jennifer Sullivan | Page B1

A 21-year-old child-rape victim who was set to confront her alleged attacker in a Seattle courtroom Thursday afternoon, made her way onto the roof of the King County Courthouse and spent about three hours threatening to jump before she was led to safety.

With hundreds looking on from below, the distraught woman dangled her legs from the courthouse, leaning precariously toward the crowd that shouted for her not to jump. At one point, the woman leapt several feet down to the top of a skybridge that links the courthouse with the King County Jail.

Just before 4:30 p.m., the woman was led to safety by Seattle police negotiators, who had spent hours talking with her. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center for a mental-health evaluation, said Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel.

Traffic around the courthouse was disrupted for several hours as police and fire vehicles crammed into area streets.

The woman was reportedly distraught about taking the witness stand against Salvador Aleman Cruz, who is accused of raping her when she was a child in the mid-1990s. Cruz, who is acting as his own attorney, would have had the right to question the alleged victim while she was on the stand, said Dennis L. McGuire, an attorney assigned to help Cruz with his defense.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 21/01/2026

kitti says legislative hearings are boring (i’m sitting in house community safety committee in olympia rn)

chihuahua in red sweater curled up and sleeping

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 18/01/2026

Top 5 Communiy Demands to Stay Alive for Mayor Katie Wilson www.instagram.com/p/DTogqZpD3m... (2/2)

#3 Stop the Sweeps and Exclusion Zones

• No sweeps during winter
• No sweeps during extreme weather
• No sweeps during inclement weather, like heavy rain or high wind
• Stop funding sweeps and do not spend money allocated for sweeps in the 2026 budget on sweeps
• End the 72 hour parking rule
• Rescind the exclusion zone around the stadiums
• Expand RV safe lots and end revocation of title requirements

#4 Stop Criminalizing Vulnerable, Informal Workers
• End the crackdown on street vendors
• Deprioritize policing and targeting of workers involved in informal economy
• Shift funding toward providing services and resources for workers involved in the informal
economy
• Deprioritize drug possession, public use, prostitution, and SODA and SOAP enforcement
• Convene a task force to create an Informal Workers' Bill of Rights similar to the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights

#5 Stop Jail Bookings
• No jail for protesting ICE
• No jail for protesting any Federal immigration enforcement activities
• No jail for protests during FIFA
• No jail for misdemeanors

Progress cannot be made on your vision of an affordable, equitable Seattle while the city is harming its people. These items are the floor for what the city needs to do to stop actively making it harder for people to survive.

Take Action
• Call the Mayor's office: 206.684.4000
• Tell the Mayor at the MLK Jr. march on Monday
• Tell your friends and get at least 3 of them to commit to
contacting the Mayor this week
• Let the Mayor know you support the Top 5 to Stay Alive at every opportunity you get!

Logos of: Stop the Sweeps, Solidarity Budget, Stop Surveillance City, Whose Streets Our Streets, Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade, Be:Seattle

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 18/01/2026

Top 5 Communiy Demands to Stay Alive for Mayor Katie Wilson www.instagram.com/p/DTogqZpD3m... (1/2)

New Mayer Same Needs: Community Demands — Top 5 to Stay Alive

Dear Mayor Wilson,

You were elected on a message of affordability, public safety, and environmental justice. Many of us hope you are able to carry out your vision of creating more shelter, more transportation, more housing, and increasing community investments. We know this vision will take time to carry out. We also know that many Seattle residents are in survival mode right now and that current city policies make it harder for our neighbors to stay alive. Here are five actions your administration could do today to increase the survival odds of our most vulnerable neighbors:

#1 Stop the Surveillance.
• Cancel the contract for SPD's Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR), closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, and Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC) systems; and uninstall/ remove the technology (both software & hardware)
• Protect Seattle residents by performing a comprehensive Racial Equity Toolkit (RET) and Forensic Audit of all municipal data collection, processing, retention, and sharing
• Remove SDOT's traffic monitoring cameras (aka SDOT's CCTV)

#2 Stop Enabling Federal Cops
• Ban staging and operations of federal civil immigration enforcement activities on City property
• Withdraw SPD and any other city departments from the Joint Terrorism Task Force
• End SPD's and any other city departments' participation in the Washington State Fusion Center
• Ban all city departments from sharing any data with any Federal agencies that take part in immigration enforcement unless there is a lawful court order or judicial warrant
• Immediately send out warnings to the community including the time and location anytime city employees confirm civil immigration enforcement activity taking place in the city

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 10/01/2026

The protest organized by Massage Parlor Organizing Project Friday morning brought together migrant workers, labor organizers, Asian American community leaders, and advocates. It was amazing and powerful. If you missed the protest, you can watch the recording www.instagram.com/p/DTTg0qZEs0_/ (part 1)

Group of people gather in front of a hotel protesting

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 10/01/2026

Yes it is absurd that people think homelessness is a drug problem, like affordable and low-barrier housing is abundant for anyone willing to work for it. We need to keep spreading the mantra, "homeless is a housing problem."

cover phot of "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns" by Gregg Colburn & Clayton Page Aldern

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 09/01/2026

from the protest. i apologize for not being able to include alt text for what’s printed on fliers on the spot.

sign on to support mpop: qr code displayed

worker solidarity chants including some chinese ones

mpop protesters holding banners in english and chinese as chihuahua in red sweater watches

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 05/01/2026

At the inauguration for newly elected Seattle City Attorney Erica Evans, State Attorney General Nick Brown jokingly complained about Erica hiring away one of his top attorneys, who turns out to be Jenna Robert, formerly Assistant City Attorney under Pete Holmes. Robert heads the criminal division.

washington state attorney general nick brown speaking at the lectern as newly elected seattle city attorney erica evans waiting to be introduced

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 04/01/2026

I registered for the "summit" because it was originally publicized to "bring together diverse agencies." But they retroactively canceled the registration of advocates for workers and survivors, including staff of Asian American agency contracted by the State to support trafficking survivors.

screenshot: 2026 Washington Human Trafficking Summit
January 9, 2026 | Hotel Murano Tacoma | Tacoma, WA

The Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) in collaboration with the Washington Board of Massage Therapy and Department of Health invites you to the 2026 Washington Human Trafficking Summit, a one-day educational event dedicated to advancing collaborative efforts to eliminate human trafficking.
This summit brings together diverse agencies — including regulatory boards, law enforcement, educators, and victim service providers — to share insights, build connections, and strengthen strategies in the fight against human trafficking.

screenshot of email from FSMTB on 12/8: Thank you for registering for the Washington Human Trafficking Summit, taking place in Tacoma, Washington on Janurary 9, 2026.

The event will be held from 9 am-3:30 pm at the Hotel Murano (1320 Broadway Plaza
Tacoma, WA 98402).

We look forward to a day filled with educational opportunities and collaboration.

screenshot from Elise Baine of FSMTB on 12/18: Dear Emi,

We hope this message finds you well. Thank you for your interest in the Washington Human Trafficking Summit in Tacoma, and your commitment to addressing this critical issue.

Due to the specific focus of this year's program, the Summit has been designed exclusively for law enforcement and regulatory professionals. As a result, we regret that we are unable to extend an invitation to you to attend this event.

We sincerely appreciate your understanding and your continued dedication to this important work. Thank you again for your interest.

Sincerely,

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 31/12/2025

Farewell message from outgoing Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson (who lost to Dionne Foster in a landslide) is unintentionally hilarious: "caricatures of me with devil horns aside […] when the Stranger writes my political obituary […] it should be titled: 'Sara Nelson: She’s Not That Bad."

screenshot: I hope that after reading this you’ll conclude that, caricatures of me with devil horns aside, my focus on small business, jobs, drug treatment, affordable housing, public safety and other important issues, was aimed at doing the most good for the greatest number of people — especially people who need the most help. Because, for example, they don’t have the luxury of not needing the police or because they can pay for their rehab themselves because they have private insurance (like I did, and everyone deserves the same chance at recovery that I had). That’s why I think that when the Stranger writes my political obituary — which they’ve been drafting for four years! — it should be titled: “Sara Nelson: She’s Not That Bad” (but I'm not holding my breath, lol).

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 06/12/2025

…and the very first broken elevator at the federal way downtown light rail station, within less than an hour since the very first train departed. this is what sound transit’s link light rail is known for.

photo of an elevator on the train platform with bright vested employees standing in front

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 06/12/2025

i’m on the very first train out of federal way “downtown” station on this opening day.

photo looking out of the window of a train at a station. sign says federal way downtown

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 04/12/2025

I'm reading a prefiled bill and came across the phrase "In a county with a population of $250,000"—apparently there are counties in Washington State where residents are dollars not human persons.

Bill text https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2094.pdf?q=20251204105740 page 2 lines 12-20

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 12/11/2025

hey look, even a fortune cookie has sense of irony

fortune from a fortune cookie: Your life will be happy and peaceful.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 09/11/2025

oh wow cool it’s true! there are now five issues—another one (#3) on queer and trans books, #4 on sexual violence, and #5 on trans philosophy, trans narratives, and anti-trans fascism store.eminism.org/japanese.html

screenshot of library catalog search at barnard college showing the first two issues of “dare toku dokusho houkoku”

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 04/11/2025

Attending Seattle book launch of “How to End Family Policing” with my baby Kitti at Seattle Central Library this evening.

Chihuahua in red sweater spring in front of a copy of the colorfully illustrated book cover of How to End Family Policing

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 31/10/2025

Please help @aileens.org respond to the FOOD CRISIS on Pac Hwy. We will be there supporting our women and children like we rose up to the challenge in 2020 when COVID lockdown led other groups to suspend their services. Also: winter clothes, boots, socks, tents, blankets, etc. needed too.

Aileen's is a peer-led community organizing and hospitality space by and for women working along the Pacific Highway in south King County, Washington.

[Screen shot of the film WE ARE AILEENS] [QR code for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlRcjZHO9q4 ] watch our film on youtube!

Like millions of Americans, our women and their children are worried and scared about the coming food crisis as SNAP benefits are suspended amid government shutdown.

When COVID lockdown resulted in massive loss of access to food and services in 2020, peer leaders of Aileen's came forward to distribute food and other necessities out of a parking lot for folks in need.

[photo of food distribution site in parking lot] [photo of food stuck full on table and inside fridge]

And we are once again scrambling to address this crisis now, until SNAP benefits are fully restored.

We will begin handing out gift cards to grocery stores starting Nov. Ist, but will switch to running our own pantry and/or preparing food ourselves as well if the situation persists beyond a couple of weeks.

[QR code for https://gofundme.com/aileens ]

We know that lots of people are suffering right now, but please, if you can, consider supporting our peer-led mutual aid efforts by donating via QR code above.

To donate via other methods, or if you have cute winter clothes, boots, socks, tents, blankets, and other items to donate, please contact admin@aileens.org.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 21/10/2025

Thank you University of Washington Department of Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies for the winter donation drive benefiting @aileens.org! New and gently used cute and cozy winter clothes, coats, shoes and boots, blankets, and tents accepted at GWSS office at UW until November 7th.

WINTER DONATION DRIVE
OCTOBER 21 - NOVEMBER 7

As cold and rainy weather returns, GWSS is organizing a fall donation drive to support a hospitality space for women in the South Sound that provides showers, hygiene and harm reduction supplies, and a warm place to hang out and find community.

We're collecting new and gently used cute and cozy winter clothes, coats, shoes and boots, blankets, and tents — anything that can help women and gender-diverse people stay warm, dry, and comfortable through the season.

• Donation Period: October 21 - November 7
• Drop-Off Location: GWSS Main Office, Padelford Hall, B110

All items will be delivered directly to the hospitality space shortly after the drive ends, ensuring they reach people as the weather turns colder.
Thank you for helping us share warmth, comfort, and care this season.

- GWSS

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 17/10/2025

at @aileens.org today we are watching MAJOR! as part of the weekly staff meeting/training in honor of the life and legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

watching movie on a projector/screen in a small room

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 13/10/2025

"Hindsight is truly a female dog." (from "So You Want to Own Greenland?" by Elizabeth Buchanan)

screenshot from an ebook: "The US position was that the 1951
Defense Agreement did not specifically ban the basing or storage of nuclear weapons. In fact, it made no reference to the nuclear question at all. Hindsight is truly a female dog."

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 08/10/2025

Actual screenshot from Doctorow’s “Enshittification”:

screenshot of an ebook: Audre Lorde was far smarter than I am about nearly everything, but when she wrote
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," she was manifestly wrong.
The master's tools were used to build that house in the first place—that makes them the ideal tools to take it to bits and rebuild it to shelter us.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 10/09/2025

After City Council, I headed to Elliott Bay bookstore to hear Kshama Sawant, now running for US House. Same fiery energy and uncompromising message as before. She wasn’t my favorite and I could never work with her when she was on the Council, but I respect her for pushing the Council to the left.

panel including Kshama Sawant on stage at Elliott Bay Book Company

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 09/09/2025

my testimony today. text in alt text.

Seattle City Council Testimony 9/9/25

This is Emi Koyama representing Coalition for Rights & Safety and a former member of the Community Task Force on Criminal/Legal System Realignment that was tasked to make recommendations to the City Council.

One of the recommendations we made four years ago was to use extreme caution on the use of surveillance technology and algorithmic decision-making that are known to have disparate negative impact on communities of color and other marginalized communities.

Contrary to the recommendations sought by the Council and for which we spent a whole year deliberating in earnest, this council seems to be rushing toward further expansion of criminalization tech without even investigating its efficacy or harms, and at the very moment the federal forces are threatening to step in and override local laws and policies protecting immigrants and other members of our community from abusing it.

The stake cannot be higher and I ask the council to wait on the surveillance bills at least until studies have been conducted on the pros and cons of existing pilot, and until courts have sorted out limits of federal executive power and local sovereignty.

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emi koyama @eminism.org · 28/08/2025

Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families is using a graphic from Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral, an abolitionist group seeking alternatives to the mandatory reporting system, in its presentation about how (amazingly) mandatory reporting system works.

a screenshot of slide from DCYF's presentation on mandatory reporting, which contains a graphic made by Shannon Perez-Darby for Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral project on harms of mandatory reporting system

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