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emi koyama
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activist, writer, rogue intellectual
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seattle / portland
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hey look, even a fortune cookie has sense of irony
fortune from a fortune cookie: Your life will be happy and peaceful.
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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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”
November 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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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 ➡ 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.
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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"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."
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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WATCH FOR ICE (at UW)
yellow road sign saying "WATCH FOR ICE"
September 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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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
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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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.
September 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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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
August 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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We are here!
kitti the chihuahua reading a sign at olympia timberland library that says “event today” above a flier for the 25th year anniversary of rock opera The Transfused
July 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I’m going to the 25th anniversary celebration of the iconic indie rock opera, The Transfused tomorrow! Creators Nomy, Radio and Rachel (The Need) and other cast and crew will be on the panel!
flier for the 25th anniversary celebration of The Transfused to be held at Olympia Timberland Library on July 28, 2025. full info link on the post
July 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Candidates never stop campaigning when they go sing karaoke.
Responses from each candidate for Hacks & Wonks' question, "What's your go-to karaoke song?": Girmay Zahilay - "It's Gonna Be Me"; Glaudia Balducci - "I Will Survive"
July 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Block ICE not wheelchairs #blockICEnotWHEELCHAIRS 3/3
electric bike on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric bikes on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric bike on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk ramp electric scooter on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Block ICE not wheelchairs #blockICEnotWHEELCHAIRS 2/3
electric bike on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric scooters on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric scooters on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric scooter on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Block ICE not wheelchairs #blockICEnotWHEELCHAIRS 1/3
electric bikes on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric scooter on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk electric bike on "sharing" network blocking an accessible route to the entrance to a business electric scooter on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk ramp
June 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Here is a summary of a 2018 King County survey of people who use heroin, meth, or crack. It is a little dated but shows a sizeable population of people who use each substance say that access to free, clean smoking equipment would reduce injections.
summary of a survey asking users of heroin, meth, and crack if access to free, clean equipment for smoking would reduce injection. a sizeable portion of each group say yes.
June 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Two recently published books, "Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes" by Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne and "Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care" by Dr. Shelley Sella both remind us why it's important to listen to stories of people directly impacted and …
cover image of "Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care" by Dr. Shelley Sella cover image of "Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes" by Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne
June 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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at youth jail conference room today attending the “stakeholder meeting” about anti-trafficking campaign in preparation of FIFA 2026 that did not invite sex workers and people in the sex trade who are most directly impacted by their campaigns.
slide stats “Creating an Exploitation Free Seattle: A stakeholder forum on bringing The Ugly Truth, an award-winning anti-trafficking public service campaign, to Greater Seattle/King County.”
May 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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King County invites community to celebrate Black freedom at the YOUTH JAIL, which detains Black youth disproportionately (45% of detained youth are Black when only 7% of Seattle residents are Black) and which the County once promised to close back in the summer of 2020 and then backtracked.
flier for 11th Annual Juneteenth Event by King County Superior Court, June 18, 2025, 11:30am-1:30pm at Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family "Justice" Center at 1211 East Alder Street, Seattle, WA 98122. Free and all are welcome.
May 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Went to watch haters sing and dance about exterminating me and my friends at the City Hall, then went to hear @karenhao.bsky.social speak about her book "Empire of AI" at the central library (which has itself hosted multiple anti-trans hatefests in the last few years).
small group of anti-trans haters in front of the city hall protected by bunch of cops two women sitting on chairs facing the audience at seattle public library event. projector screen behind says "Karen Hao and Dina Bass discuss Empire of AI, Tuesday, March 27, 7p.m." photos of the book cover and Hao are on the screen as well.
May 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Laura Bates' new book, "The New Age of Sexism: How the Al Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny" (out now in UK) won't be published in the US until September, but Amazon might want to advertise something other than "How ot Flirt with Women" in its place in the meantime.
Amazon search result for "The New Age of Sexism: How the Al Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny" shows an advertisement for the book "How to Flirt with Women"
May 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I’m joining Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle on Sunday May 25th at 5pm.
Cover of the book “Enemy Feminisms” by Sophie Lewis on a bookstore shelf. Display says “Sun 5/25 In store, Sophie Lewis w/ Emi Koyama
May 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM