emi koyama

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activist, writer, rogue intellectual seattle / portland rightsandsafety.org • aileens.org more links: https://linktr.ee/emikoyama

merchandise fundraiser page screenshot
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.”
email at 11;55am today from paypal notifying that church of harm reduction’s paypal account was permanently deactivated.
person (me) in fashionably chemo buzz cut smiling to a chihuahua (kitti) wearing red sweater
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
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.
fancy pink rig filter i used to use during in pandemic. The background is the pumpkin field designed by Yaoi Kusa.
chihuahua watches as humans set up stage for 5th anniversary vigil for the 2021 atlanta spa shooting victims in a park
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).
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.
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."
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"
line graph showing cyclic pattern of people who signed in "con" against the millionaire's tax
Full page PDF covered in black rectangle with the letters "1A" at the top
tiny baby chihuahua held in someone’s hand
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.
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."
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.
2026 king county proclamation for the human trafficking prevention month
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.
Clipping from January 12, 2011 edition of The Seattle Times. Article titled "Protecting victims in court" discusses a legislation proposed by Rep. Goodman
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.
chihuahua in red sweater curled up and sleeping
#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
New Mayer Same Needs: Community Demands — Top 5 to Stay Alive
Group of people gather in front of a hotel protesting
cover phot of "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns" by Gregg Colburn & Clayton Page Aldern
we need stable livelihood not ICE or police raids
flyer from mpop protest.
washington state attorney general nick brown speaking at the lectern as newly elected seattle city attorney erica evans waiting to be introduced
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: 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).
photo of an elevator on the train platform with bright vested employees standing in front
photo looking out of the window of a train at a station. sign says federal way downtown
Bill text https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2094.pdf?q=20251204105740 page 2 lines 12-20
image of t-shirt with the iconic photo of Aileen Wuornos holding up her handcuffed wrists in front of her neck, with acronym “WWAD” and the sentence “What would Aileen do?”
fortune from a fortune cookie: Your life will be happy and peaceful.
screenshot of library catalog search at barnard college showing the first two issues of “dare toku dokusho houkoku”
Chihuahua in red sweater spring in front of a copy of the colorfully illustrated book cover of How to End Family Policing
[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 ➡
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
watching movie on a projector/screen in a small room
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."
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.
yellow road sign saying "WATCH FOR ICE"
panel including Kshama Sawant on stage at Elliott Bay Book Company
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.
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
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
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
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"
electric bike on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk
electric bike on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk
electric bikes on "sharing" network blocking a sidewalk
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.
cover image of "Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care" by Dr. Shelley Sella
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.”
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.