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Emi Koyama
Emi Koyama is a social justice activist and writer synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics. She cites her personal experiences within and among these identities as the starting point for her writing and activism. Much of her work has focused on transfeminism, including compilations such as The Transfeminist Manifesto, and discussions of feminist intersectionality. She characterizes her own gender as "not identify with any particular gender, but she does not so strongly identify with the state of having no gender to claim that as an identity either."

Education
Koyama attended Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. While in attendance, she founded the student group Raging Exotics: Women of Color Caucus at PSU Women’s Studies Department.

Career
Koyama worked for the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) from 2001-2002. From that work, she went on to found and become director of the Intersex Initiative in Portland, OR. She also co-founded the Japan-U.S. Feminist Network for Decolonization (FeND), a network of Japanese and American scholars resisting both colonialisms. She has most recently been working with Coalition for Rights & Safety for People in the Sex Trade, a network of individuals and organizations promoting self-determination, safety, well-being, and human rights of sex workers and people engaged in the sex trade through public education, policy advocacy, and other activities from empirical, harm reduction, and social justice perspectives.

The Transfeminist Manifesto
The Transfeminist Manifesto was written in October of 1999, during Koyama's work with Survivor Project, the 1997 non-profit agency dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Its writing stemmed from the transfeminist notion of the need for trans women (that is, by Koyama's definition, those who identify as women despite gender assignment to the contrary) actively joining the feminist movement. Topics included the Question of Male Privilege, Deconstructing the Reverse Essentialism, Body Image/Consciousness as a Feminist Issue, Violence Against Women, and Health and Reproductive Choice. In its 1999 printing, the manifesto was included in a publication alongside Koyama's autobiographical essay, "I Hated Being a Girl," a personal representation of the author's life that was accompanied by a note asking that readers not cite or quote the essay in future papers or articles.