emi koyama
@eminism.org
activist, writer, rogue intellectual
eminism.org | aileens.org | rightsandsafety.org | fendnow.org
seattle / portland
eminism.org | aileens.org | rightsandsafety.org | fendnow.org
seattle / portland
Love that everyone is already treating Katie as the Mayor-elect.
Going live now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_e...
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Love that everyone is already treating Katie as the Mayor-elect.
hey look, even a fortune cookie has sense of irony
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
hey look, even a fortune cookie has sense of irony
I didn’t know about this either. Risograph is something I fancy but never actually get to try, but the app’s layout and PDF features look super useful too.
New-to-me resource from the Zine Librarians unConference chat: spectrolite.app "Spectrolite is a free Mac desktop app by ANEMONE to make colorful 🌈 risograph prints and zines more easily."
Spectrolite
spectrolite.app
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I didn’t know about this either. Risograph is something I fancy but never actually get to try, but the app’s layout and PDF features look super useful too.
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A NYT's reporter embedding with LA Vice cops says everything you need to know about the NYT’s ethics.
This is a garbage piece from beginning to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
This is a garbage piece from beginning to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A NYT's reporter embedding with LA Vice cops says everything you need to know about the NYT’s ethics.
This is a garbage piece from beginning to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
This is a garbage piece from beginning to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
Dear journalists: please always identify National Coalition on Sexual Exploitation as a Christian fundamentalist religious right group formerly known as Morality In Media. Or better yet, don't legitimize them by mentioning them in any other context.
Friday Fizz: Latest Ballots Trend Toward Wilson, Barnes Moves Controversial Cop Out of East Precinct, Harrell Says Shaming Sex Buyers Works
Today's Afternoon Fizz.
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Today's Afternoon Fizz.
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Friday Fizz: Latest Ballots Trend Toward Wilson, Barnes Moves Controversial Cop Out of East Precinct, Harrell Says Shaming Sex Buyers Works - PubliCola
1. Some quick math on the latest ballot drop from King County Elections, which included another 56,118 votes in the Seattle…
publicola.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Dear journalists: please always identify National Coalition on Sexual Exploitation as a Christian fundamentalist religious right group formerly known as Morality In Media. Or better yet, don't legitimize them by mentioning them in any other context.
“Federal Way Downtown” consists of the park & ride. City Hall and other official functions are far away and barely accessible by public transit.
Even more than the fact that the trains don't go to these places yet, the new signage is confusing to visitors in that it might lead them to believe Federal Way has a downtown.
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Federal Way Downtown” consists of the park & ride. City Hall and other official functions are far away and barely accessible by public transit.
Attending Seattle book launch of “How to End Family Policing” with my baby Kitti at Seattle Central Library this evening.
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Attending Seattle book launch of “How to End Family Policing” with my baby Kitti at Seattle Central Library this evening.
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SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America"
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...
SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America" - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes celebrated earlier this week after an anti-drug trafficking operation recovered fentanyl,…
publicola.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
SPD Drug Arrests Were Part of Trump's Anti-Immigrant "Operation Take Back America"
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...
Police Chief Shon Barnes thanked "our federal partners" for facilitating the arrests of 10 accused drug traffickers, all with Hispanic surnames.
publicola.com/2025/10/31/s...
did any sex worker watch the new doc about aileen wuornos on netflix? tell me if i should watch or avoid.
November 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
did any sex worker watch the new doc about aileen wuornos on netflix? tell me if i should watch or avoid.
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 Logo with tagline "supporting & building community for women on pac hwy"]
Donate to Support
Our EMERGENCY RESPONSE
to the Food CRISIS on Pac Hwy
https://gofundme.com/aileens
detail on the following pages ➡](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g65t2ydon62e3nanfekyy73e/bafkreigmfyz4ybbjots2sctgu76ouuxqsuthxxfpkc57lf2qpje2v4fhou@jpeg)
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g65t2ydon62e3nanfekyy73e/bafkreidwzmthbglt64sb7z6wq3nsjvikh7zre5v22nmaqeqymddikiudty@jpeg)
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g65t2ydon62e3nanfekyy73e/bafkreifrtne5xwjol5ewdd7wknxkmmjknm6cou4odyihjjrc4mm5mwuum4@jpeg)
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g65t2ydon62e3nanfekyy73e/bafkreifpn6imlydfonqtojigefpbaxkhrpc2xm3u3crzmt7h7lzs2jybiq@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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.
Finished Rhacel Salazar Parreñas' new book, "The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers." It's brief, but is packed with examples and explanations of how culture, gender, laws, and savior complex combine to enable trafficking of domestic workers by regular folks. …
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Finished Rhacel Salazar Parreñas' new book, "The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers." It's brief, but is packed with examples and explanations of how culture, gender, laws, and savior complex combine to enable trafficking of domestic workers by regular folks. …
Mayor Harrell dismisses Katie’s long history of making changes through community organizing and policy advocacy by suggesting she didn’t change laws, legislators did. But it is people rising up to demand changes that have made the City better. Definitely one of the highlights of the rally.
Katie Wilson said she and Mayor Harrell see power differently. He has dismissed her accomplishments as an organizer, but she argued real power for change is bottom up, not top down.
October 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Mayor Harrell dismisses Katie’s long history of making changes through community organizing and policy advocacy by suggesting she didn’t change laws, legislators did. But it is people rising up to demand changes that have made the City better. Definitely one of the highlights of the rally.
Transexual Menace is actually spelled with one "s" by the way.
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Transexual Menace is actually spelled with one "s" by the way.
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October 26th is #IntersexAwarenessDay 💜💛 Did you know our movement started with a newsletter connecting intersex people for the first time in the 90s, a protest outside a Boston medical conference & later an internationally recognized day? @19thnews.org
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19thnews.org/2025/10/inte...
Intersex Awareness Day highlights a fight for rights that’s far from over
From a Boston protest to global recognition, the history of Intersex Awareness Day shines a light on decades of work to preserve bodily autonomy.
19thnews.org
October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
October 26th is #IntersexAwarenessDay 💜💛 Did you know our movement started with a newsletter connecting intersex people for the first time in the 90s, a protest outside a Boston medical conference & later an internationally recognized day? @19thnews.org
19thnews.org/2025/10/inte...
19thnews.org/2025/10/inte...
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Baltimore Police Swarm Student After AI System Mistakes Doritos Bag for Gun
Student Handcuffed When AI System Mistakes Doritos Bag fo...
Baltimore police handcuff a student when an AI system mis...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Baltimore Police Swarm Student After AI System Mistakes Doritos Bag for Gun
Over the years, Brown Recluse Zine Distro printed and distributed my zines further than I could ever reach on my own, along with zines made by many other BIPOC artists, writers, and zinemakers for BIPOC (and other) readers. Please support its continued existence. www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...
Donate to Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future, organized by BROWN RECLUSE
Secure Brown Recluse Zine Distro's Future!
We are seeking funds for the project to conti… BROWN RECLUSE needs your support for Secure BROWN RECLUSE's Future
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October 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Over the years, Brown Recluse Zine Distro printed and distributed my zines further than I could ever reach on my own, along with zines made by many other BIPOC artists, writers, and zinemakers for BIPOC (and other) readers. Please support its continued existence. www.gofundme.com/f/secure-bro...
Reading Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir "Nobody's Girl," I am surprised how universal her experiences were, considering her highly unusual group of rich and powerful perpetrators. Societal status of those who harmed her were certainly unusual, but…
October 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Reading Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir "Nobody's Girl," I am surprised how universal her experiences were, considering her highly unusual group of rich and powerful perpetrators. Societal status of those who harmed her were certainly unusual, but…
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.
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
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#ICYMI: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social, w/ @kuow.org
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social, w/ @kuow.org
Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.
Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#ICYMI: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social, w/ @kuow.org
By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
By @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social, w/ @kuow.org
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
October 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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
"Hindsight is truly a female dog." (from "So You Want to Own Greenland?" by Elizabeth Buchanan)
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"Hindsight is truly a female dog." (from "So You Want to Own Greenland?" by Elizabeth Buchanan)
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“But can’t we use the master’s tools just this once, as a treat??”
Here’s my talk about Lorde’s master’s tools, which got such a heartening reception in New York. Thanks to everyone who turned out—professors, students, poets, activists 🌱
Here’s my talk about Lorde’s master’s tools, which got such a heartening reception in New York. Thanks to everyone who turned out—professors, students, poets, activists 🌱
Using and Abusing ‘The Master’s Tools’ Caleb Ward's Audre Lorde Lecture
Audre Lorde’s statement that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” stands for uncompromising vision in the fight…
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September 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“But can’t we use the master’s tools just this once, as a treat??”
Here’s my talk about Lorde’s master’s tools, which got such a heartening reception in New York. Thanks to everyone who turned out—professors, students, poets, activists 🌱
Here’s my talk about Lorde’s master’s tools, which got such a heartening reception in New York. Thanks to everyone who turned out—professors, students, poets, activists 🌱
Why must Cory Doctorow dismissively misquote Audre Lorde in his new book? There’s no reason he needs to insert quotes from Lorde or MLK at the very end of the book in a way irrelevant to their original meanings.
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why must Cory Doctorow dismissively misquote Audre Lorde in his new book? There’s no reason he needs to insert quotes from Lorde or MLK at the very end of the book in a way irrelevant to their original meanings.
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Bruce Harrell makes his closing statement for why he should keep his job after his poor performance as Seattle Mayor and this line says it all.
"This is not the time to hope."
"This is not the time to hope."
October 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Bruce Harrell makes his closing statement for why he should keep his job after his poor performance as Seattle Mayor and this line says it all.
"This is not the time to hope."
"This is not the time to hope."