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☂️ National peak body for sex workers & sex worker organisations in unceded Australia. Fighting for our rights, health & safety since 1989. 💪
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Beyond disappointing to hear the P-word used no less than 3 times by
@10NewsFirst
. It’s 2021,
@vanOnselenP
, if you’re going to use us for shock factor at least get our job title right.
#10News
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Today sex workers in NT & Australia celebrate the passing of the Sex Industry Bill 2019 in NT Parliament. This bill fully decriminalises sex work providing sex workers with access to the same workplace health & safety protections as other Territorians.
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We've been alerted to this project by a right-wing journalist making a documentary about SW. We warn our NSW sex worker followers against involvement and encourage anyone approached by Lauren Southern to simply refer her to us or to the NSW sex worker peer organisation
@SWOPnsw
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We're very happy to announce that the Northern Territory has this week become the first place in the world to explicitly protect sex workers from discrimination by naming 'sex work' and 'sex worker' as protected attributes! 🎉
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You can't have womens rights without
#sexworkers
rights!
On
#iwd
stand with sex workers & support decriminalisation of
#sexwork
#IWD2017
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Congratulations Victorian SW - we're on the way! There's still a lot of work to do from here, but this announcement from the Andrews government is a very important step:
@VixenCollective
and Scarlet Alliance response at
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INTERNATIONAL WHORES' DAY: On 2nd June 1975, more than 100 sex workers and their allies began an 8-day demonstration at the St Nizier Church in Lyon, France to protest criminalised and exploitative working and living conditions.
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Today Is International Sex Workers' Rights Day. Started in 2001, when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a festival despite efforts from prohibitionist groups. Sex worker groups across the world have subsequently celebrated the date annually on the 3rd of March.
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BREAKING NEWS!
@VictorianLabor
commits to destroying the sex work registration records by May 10th, 2022. We and
@VixenCollective
will stay on it to ensure this happens! And hold
#sexworker
celebration party when it does! 🍾🎉💃🏻🕺💃🏻
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Just a reminder what sex workers who participated in the Louis Theroux documentary had to say about it.
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#Decriminalisation
of Sex Work Bill 2021 has passed in VIC 24-10! More work to be done but will be critical and necessary start. Thanks
@VictorianLabor
@AndyMeddickMP
@SamanthaRatnam
@fionapatten
and all others who supported the rights health and safety of sw
@VixenCollective
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Did you catch us last night on SBS? Thanks to all of the
#sexworkers
who marched with us in all of your finery! We’re on a
#whorepride
high today. Thanks also to No Pride in Detention and Homos Against Scomo for having us along in their float!
#sydneymardigras
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Today, Sunday 17th December is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Sex workers and allies observe this day annually to recognise and remember sex worker victims and survivors of violence globally.
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It's International Sex Worker Rights Day! We know that for our peers and fellow sex worker orgs, that's every day, but today we celebrate and remember the historical 2001 gathering of 25,000 sex workers in Kolkata. Strength and solidarity to our movement across the world!
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Queer sex workers and allies
#solicitingsolidarity
and asking for a little respect with Scarlet Alliance and
@SWOPnsw
at
@sydneymardigras
last night.
Thankyou to all who worked so hard to put our float together and to all who came to show their support!
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It's a good news day! Thanks to the advocacy of Scarlet Alliance and our member organsations, sex work businesses, including brothels and strip clubs, are NO LONGER longer required to remain closed in stage 3 in the Federal roadmap!
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We want full decriminalisation of sex work
We don’t want “Legalisation” or licensing regimes
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The Nordic model is a huge flop. That's it, that's the tweet.
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Today we say goodbye to our CEO since 2016, Jules Kim.
A brave and outspoken voice for sex worker rights, she has fearlessly led us through the pandemic and been part of countless campaigns to achieve decriminalisation and anti-discrimination protections across Australia.
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Scarlet Alliance and
@SWOPnsw
invite our sex worker community and friends to pay our individual and collective respects to Michaela Dunn tonight. We will be laying flowers and holding vigil space for the loss of a beloved woman, friend and colleague.
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THREAD:
many of the issues being faced by workers in this (so-called "new" or "emerging") "
#gigeconomy
" are issues that
#sexworkers
have been collectively organising around & talking about for decades (while finding ways to negotiate/resist/protest/collectively bargain & survive)
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🎯 NT has decriminalised sex work
🚀 VIC announced an Inquiry
🔥 SA is only a matter of time
⚡️ACT amended its laws in 2018
💥 QLD last month announced a Law Reform Commission Inquiry
Could it be that policy is finally catching up with the insurmountable evidence on decrim?
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Okay ladies now let's get in formation! 🙌 Help us block the harmful Bill that would criminalise sex work before South Australian Parliament by signing our petition now:
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A Bill that would fully decriminalise sex work is currently being considered by the South African Parliament.
If passed it would make it only the third country in the world to decriminalise sex work (which makes this kind of a big deal!). 🧵
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Lots of
#sexworkers
are mums/parents. The media trope of sex workers not being good parents or children who are traumatised because one of their parents was a
#sexworker
is re-played over & over each day in mainstream media.
The
#stigma
&stereotype is pervasive yet far from true.
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New Zealand sex workers have just been included in their stage 2 return to work. In Australia Saunas and bath houses are permitted to open in stage 3, but sex industry premises are not. This is not about public health, this is outright discrimination.
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May today be the day that Victoria acknowledges that sex work is work.
Our CEO Jules Kim with VIC sex workers, members of
@VixenCollective
, and bill supporters
@SamanthaRatnam
@FionaPattenMLC
@AndyMeddickMP
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🚨 Somebody sound the SWERF siren 🚨 because a Bill has just been introduced to the South Australian parliament that would criminalise clients of sex workers with cash fines and imprisonment as penalty for paying for sex.
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Sex Workers. We remember the sex workers who we have lost to violence. We commemorate their lives and vow to keep fighting for equality.
There is still so much work to do in Australia to make that a reality.
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This
#InternationalWhoresDay
we want to change the way society sees
#sexworkers
. We are human just like everyone else. We want respect.
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Nordic model bill (that criminalises sex worker clients, landlords, dependents and partners) has been introduced by South Australian Upper House Liberal leader Nicola Centofanti. South Australia out of step with the rest of Australia and the evidence!
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We're saddened to learn that Dr Jana, founder of Kolkata sex worker organisation
@Durbar11
has lost his battle with COVID-19. You can learn more about the important history and work of Durbar through their website,
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No more bad sex worker research! Scarlet Alliance is developing National Research Ethics Guidelines, and we want to hear from you. Head to
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Sex workers have been repeatedly betrayed
by the media, by “feminist” orgs, by governments & policymakers, by researchers & by health workers
Our experiences have been used against us, cherry picked and decontextualised by ppl who insist on claiming they are helping us
#IDEVASW
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We congratulate
@VixenCollective
and Victorian sex workers on the passage of the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill in the lower house. Still more to do to improve the bill in the upper house, but this is a key step in the process to getting the laws sex workers want and deserve!
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By explicitly naming the attributes the Bill that just passed NT Parliament recognises the unique stigma we experience as sex workers in our chosen line of work and clearly demonstrates that we are valued members of the community, deserving of rights and protection.
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UPDATE ON THE ONLINE SAFETY BILL for SWs and allies. We need to act fast - check the link and the comments below for more details. RT heaps!
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decriminalising
#sexwork
does not mean removing criminal penalties for exploitation, forced labour, violence, trafficking or sexual assault
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We are briefly reopening the Scarlet Alliance Emergency Relief Fund to Victorian SWs only. We will keep it open as long as COVID-19 restrictions impact Victorian SWs. To receive funds next week, get your application in by 12pm Tuesday 1 June.
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Sex work is not the only kind of work people have historically and/or currently tried to argue should not be paid work.
This has never stopped workers from organising and demanding fair work conditions, safety, respect and pay in other industries.
It won't stop sex workers either
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Today on
#InternationalWhoresDay
we celebrate the work our community does together to fight for law reform. Today & every day we will stand together - for the labour and human rights we all deserve.
#sexworkers
#IWD18
#decrim
#NoBadWhoresJustBadLaws
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Happy Sex Worker Pride to all wh0rez and our allies. Scarlet Alliance is a proud peer organisation and we are celebrating the past and future achievements of the seks worker rights movement today ❤️
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Unions and Sex Workers united for decriminalisation in VIC! Thank you for your support
@VicUnions
@VixenCollective
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Sexworkers have stated for years that the
#Nordic
or
#Swedish
#laws
harm
#sexworkers
.
Research has now documented the impacts.
Anyone calling for these laws must now admit they do so knowing the impact on sex workers.
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Congratulations to all of the sex workers, activists and community members who have fought to win this campaign. This is a momentous day for all of us and wouldn't be possible without your tireless work over many, many years.
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Happy International Sex Worker Pride Day! We stand proudly in solidarity with all sex workers as we celebrate today.
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SHAME on
@ABCaustralia
and
@amberig
for publishing such an inaccurate, incredibly unbalanced, and detrimental piece of media about Victorian sex workers, at a time when we are already under so much strain. We and
@VixenCollective
await contact from you to undo this damage.
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#NordicModel
reality=
client pays a
#sexworker
& respects all boundaries?
=CRIME
sex workers share apartment
=CRIME
sex worker has housing
=CRIME if SW isnt evicted
experience of abuse, assault or violence at work
="thats what happens with sex work U need to stop"
#no2nordic
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If we decriminalised sex work we'd all be happier, healthier, safer and hotter. Thanks for coming to our TEDTalk.
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Sex workers around the world call on governments to remove the conditions that engender violence against sex workers, including criminalization of sex work.
Sending love to sex workers everywhere, today and every day and honouring those who are no longer with us.
artist unknown
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Joint statement from
@scarletalliance
&
@VixenCollective
"Time and time again sex workers become the quick, easy and disposable targets for blame. The ‘vectors of disease’ is an old, tired cliche pulled out too often and too conveniently."
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Yesterday
@LiberalVictoria
supported harmful
#sexwork
laws as state party policy.
The Nordic Model does not reduce trafficking or
#sexwork
, but it increases sex workers’ risk of violence and is detrimental to our
#health
,
#safety
&
#humanrights
.
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Taking Over Oxford Street with
@prideinprotest
!
The only good cops are strippers in costume.
#DecrimSexWork
#MardiGras2021
#DefundThePolice
#NoPrideInDetention
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What is something that you have learned from a sex worker?
(We are addressing this to everyone, whether you have done sex work yourself or not, and it could be from a co-worker, form a sex worker activist, from your friend or family member who is a sex worker or as a client!)
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The Decriminalising Sex Work Bill was voted in by the Queensland Government on 2nd May 2024 🎉 A heartfelt thank you to the many sex workers, allies and supporters who have gotten behind the DecrimQLD campaign to remove harmful laws and achieve decriminalisation in Queensland!
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[cw: death] It is with deep sadness that we let you know that Bella Green, a sex worker, comedian, author, and cherished friend passed away last week.
We extend our condolences to those who knew and cared for her, and all of our community who are impacted by this awful news.
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#trans
#sexworkers
want the right to live and work as our authentic selves, without fear, criminalisation or discrimination.
#internationalwhoresday
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"The fact that sex work is work does not mean that it is good work, or empowering work, or harmless work. However, sex work is not inherently harmful, but criminalization and stigma do make sex work circumstantially harmful."
Sex workers should have the same right to safe working environments as all other workers.
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Good morning to everyone except those who oppose the full decriminalisation of sex work. 😊
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Invasion Day is not a day for celebration.
It is a day of mourning for Indigenous people. A day that marks the beginning of their land being invaded and of over 200yrs of colonisation and genocide by white settlers.
That many celebrate today is nothing short of disgraceful.
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SWERFS and TERFs are actually just misogynists in disguise, (you can't) change our mind. ✨
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MEDIA RELEASE: NT introduces Decrim Bill today! “All Territorians deserve to be safe at work, including sex workers. Being a sex worker is a recognised profession in the NT. We applaud Govt for recognising every Territorian's workplace rights." Jules Kim
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Shameful day in US politics as a Bill thinly disguised as
#trafficking
prevention but clearly aimed at
#criminalising
#sexworker
#advertising
platforms (that enable
#sexworkers
to work independently, share
#safety
info & build community) passes 97-2 (No votes Wyden & Paul)
#SESTA
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Street art by
#sexworkers
+
#mothers
from Ammar
(
#sexworker
org in Argentina)
#mothersday
#sexwork
is work
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When sex workers say sex work is work ...its coz that's our experience and its coz these terms make sense to us.
To claim that "prostitution is not a job" means denying the experience and knowledge of sex workers- as if we don't know what we are doing
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Sistergirl sex worker and Chair of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group Rosa reminds us that sex workers are part of the community!
#DecrimNow
#HIV2020
#SolicitingForChange
#SexWorkisWork
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NICE WORK EVERYONE! NSW brothels, parlours and strip clubs return to work from TOMORROW! Happy whoring everyone!
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Media Release: Decriminalisation of sex work review announced in QLD today.
The QLD Law Reform Commission tasked with consulting & drafting decriminalisation legislation to support the work, health & safety of sex workers
Read our media release here:
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We’re proud to announce Janelle Fawkes as our Scarlet Alliance Whore of the Year.
Janelle is a life-long activist, sex worker, former CEO of Scarlet Alliance and all around legend who is currently leading the campaign to decriminalise sex work in Queensland.
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One sex worker - Jane-spoke about the protest being “a great opportunity to educate (
#amyschumer
) about effects of the law that she lobbied for has had on our lives and our families lives,”
#fosta
#sesta
#letussurvive
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Today is pioneering sex worker, activist, artist, author and performer Carol Leigh's birthday (1951-2022).
A fearless whore and powerful force to be reckoned with, she was instrumental in paving the way for the many wins our movement has fought to secure in recent decades.
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South Australian sex workers worked tirelessly to change laws to support sex worker work health & safety. Members of the lower house ignored the evidence and voted down the Decriminalisation Bill (19 for -24 against). A shameful day for SA parliament. It’s not over.
#SANF19
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"The data clearly shows that criminalizing consensual adult s--ual services causes severe harms, which fall mainly on the most marginalized groups—women, POC, transgender & NB workers, workers' with disabilities, & economically marginalized workers"
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Restrictions remain for sex workers in Victoria and sex workers have been targeted for fines and penalties. The police are not health care professionals and fines are not health care solutions. Please help us provide a safety net for our community.
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@AUSTRAC
We are the national peak body for sex workers and sex worker organisations in Australia. We sit on the national trafficking roundtable & have been representing sex workers on this for decades. We were not contacted or consulted at any point in the production of this document.
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Important notice, pls RT
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, has become aware of a Victorian business using a name that attempts to link or confound their commercial association and our not-for-profit peer organisation. There is no affiliation. Statement in pic:
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Nicola Centofanti’s harmful Bill that would have introduced the Nordic
Model to regulate sex work in South Australia was voted down in SA’s
Legislative Council on May 1 with a count of 10:9.
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As sex workers we stand in solidarity with workers in other industries fighting for rights including their right to
#strike
#changetherules
If the rules say it's unsafe to stop
#sydneytrains
for a day but not unsafe to work train staff to exhaustion with ongoing overtime, morning & night, we need to
#ChangeTheRules
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Your daily reminder that there are no bad whores. Just bad laws.
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N ...not legalisation thx
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Today, we celebrate! Happy IWD to each and every one of you 💕
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When people argue that some sex workers are also survivors of child sexual abuse...& that this somehow means sex work is not a real decision (?)
do they think survivors of abuse are incapable of any decision making?
Or only if the decision is to do work that others disapprove of
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Today we pay our respects to Carol Leigh (1951 - 2022). A brave, bold and pioneering sex worker, activist, artist, author and performer whose contributions to our movement we will forever be indebted to. (1/3)
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It is with great sadness that we inform our community of the passing of our beloved sister girl Laura Ignatius Orsto "Holden". We will be paying tribute to Laura and her life in Darwin, Sydney and on the Tiwi Islands.
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No matter what community you're from
#InternationalWhoresDay
is a chance to share empathy and hope- and remind us of what's possible when we leave no one behind.
#sexworkers
#ISWD
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