Decolonise Sex Work AU

Why mutual aid is so important? 🗣️ Mutual aid is the heartbeat of a compassionate and supportive community, where care is a collective effort. Mutual aid is crucial as it fosters community support and resilience, ensuring everyone has access to necessary resources and assistance. Mutual aid is essential for building strong communities, ensuring everyone gets the help they need. It empowers people to support each other, combats inequality, and fosters trust and solidarity. Through mutual aid, we can create a more caring and connected world! (go boost the last mutual aid slide on our page!! comment an emoji and share 🎀🩷🌹🌸)

Our mutual aid fund urgently needs your support! ❤️ Got $5 to spare? Recently, due to finding a rental after almost 12 months of houselessness and moving, I had been unable to contribute full time to facilitating mutual aid efforts including fundraisers and mutual aid tiles for the past few weeks. Despite these challenges, we’ve continued to assist those in need through our mutual aid fund. However, after fulfilling numerous requests over the past few weeks, our resources are now critically low! We’ve had multiple members of our community reach out for help this week and we have not been able to assist them ASAP at this time without posting mutual aid tiles. Your donations are vital to sustain this lifeline for our community and ensure that we can keep supporting all our community members during their times of need. We are a grassroots org that is unfunded and relies solely on community donations so please consider contributing today to help us maintain our crucial mutual aid efforts for our Blak sexwork community! DSW mutual aid fund - DSW BSB: 944600 Асс: 001904089 BeemIT- DecoloniseSW

An official statement regarding the crisis of violence against women happening in so called Australia right now. We, at Decolonise Sex Work AU, strongly condemn the ongoing violence against women in so called Australia, particularly the abhorrent treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Recently, a deeply troubling incident has come to light involving a police officer who shared nude images of an Aboriginal woman in a police group chat. Despite the severity of this violation, the officer in question has not lost his job. This is a glaring example of the systemic racism and misogyny that continues to permeate our institutions. In Australia today, the crisis of violence against women continues, with Aboriginal women facing disproportionately high rates of violence. Among those most vulnerable are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers, whose voices are often sidelined in movements. Indigenous sex workers are among the most marginalised voices in our community. Our experiences, data, and statistics are consistently silenced and overlooked. This erasure not only diminishes the severity of the violence we face but also perpetuates a cycle of neglect and abuse. Decolonise sex work has documented numerous instances where Indigenous sex workers’ pleas for help have been ignored or inadequately addressed by authorities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers in so called Australia Also experience violence at disproportionately high rates compared to our non-Indigenous counterparts. Indigenous sex workers are significantly more likely to be victims of physical and sexual assault, often perpetrated by clients, law enforcement, and even intimate partners. Despite these alarming figures, the true extent of the violence remains underreported due to systemic silencing and mistrust of authorities, highlighting an urgent need for comprehensive data collection and supportive measures tailored to Blak sex workers. continued in comments -

CLOSED ‼️S*X W*RKER OUTREACH - THIS FRIDAY 24th & SATURDAY 25TH, Gadigal-Dharug Land‼️ FREE SW, safer s*x and PPE supplies~ discreet delivery~ individual and establishment drop offs ✅ TIME: 1pm till late evening ✅AREAS: Western Syd, Inner West and King Cross locations only DM @lastbitchofthecross (Louisa) or myself (Paz) if this applies to you or a peer and please share safely. With love ♥️☂️

We’ll be out and about across Magandjin/Meanjin (Brisbane) and surrounding areas on March 1st doing outreach with free safe sex and harm reduction supplies for mob. Come grab what you need and have a yarn ❤️ We’ll be based in the Fortitude Valley area but can travel to wherever mob need us! You can contact us here or DM Pris directly (@prissiles ) to organise supplies or a check in!❤️

Our mutual aid posts are being removed under Instagram’s “human exploitation” policy saying it “may exploit others for profit.” It’s sad and very disheartening especially as we’ve previously been invited to Meta First Nations events for using our platform in exactly this way. To support our community, mobilise care through mutual aid and show up for our mob. This same work that was once recognised by Meta is now being censored and punished. This kind of censorship directly harms our mutual aid networks and grassroots organising. If you see mutual aid posts, ours or anyone’s, please share, boost and save them. Every repost helps rebuild reach and keep urgent support moving. Mutual aid is community care, survival and love. ❤️

We’re back! ❤️ This is the third time this year our account has been suspended. It’s frustrating and exhausting to keep fighting for space on a platform we’ve used for years to support and protect our community. Censorship like this directly affects our ability to support our Blak sex work community. When our platform disappears, so does access to resources, safety information and the networks that keep our Blak Sex work community supported. Please be sure to share and boost the current mutual aid on our page as losing access to our account again has made it extremely hard for the current request to reach goal.

🚨OUTREACH DONATIONS NEEDED🚨 We’re calling on community as we urgently need outreach supplies to keep our Blak sex work community safe and supported. We’re currently running low on essential items like Condoms, Lube, Sponges, PPE, Period Products, Work Outfits, Harm Reduction Supplies, Phone Credit, and Beauty & Self Care products. 📦 Supplies can be posted to - P. Iles Parcel Collect: 10140 74983, Shop 6/12 O’Sullivan Road, Leumeah NSW 2560. Monetary contributions welcome via - BSB: 944600 ACC: 001904089 Ref: OUTREACH or Beem It: @decolonisesw Help us get vital resources where they’re needed most! Every item, every dollar, every share counts! ❤️

ITS NAIDOC WEEK! 🖤💛❤️ Here at Decolonise Sex Work, we’re using this NAIDOC Week to honour our Blak sex work community, who have always been central to community care and survival. This year’s theme, “The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy,” reflects the work that our Blak sex workers have always done to hold, nurture and protect community. Whether it’s through mutual aid, survival work or caring for kin when systems don’t, Our Blak sex work community have been a powerful and necessary part of our collective story. This labour is legacy. This work is strength. This care is visionary. At DSW, we honour the legacy of those who came before us and uplift those who continue the work today. Those whove carried others through discrimination, poverty, state violence and survival, all while navigating criminalisation, stigma and erasure. You’ve made safety where there was none. You’ve done what the system never could. You are not invisible here. Your work is seen. Your strength is sacred. We’ve always been here and we’ve always been part of the story. ❤️ ✨ This NAIDOC, we’re also raising funds through mutual aid to support a Blak trans sistagirl to access long overdue, life saving gender-affirming surgery. This is urgent care that she has been shut out of for years. ✨ If you can donate or organise alongside us please do! Please be sure to BOOST AND SHARE! 📌 BSB: 944600 📌 ACC: 001904089 📌 Ref: Gender affirming care 📌 BeemIt: @DECOLONISESW

VIA @respect.qld - Are you a s*x w*rker in QLD who has experienced discrimination? We can help. S*x w*rk was decriminalised in Queensland on 2 August 2024. As part of this law reform, the protections for s*x w*rkers under the Anti-Discrimination Act have been expanded to cover a broader range of s*x w*rkers when compared with protections that existed prior to 2 August 2024. https://www.qhrc.qld.gov.au/your-rights/discrimination-law/sex-work-activity

Today is International Sex Workers Rights Day. International Sex Worker Rights Day began in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India at a festival organised by a Calcutta-based group called Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Unstoppable Women’s Synthesis Committee). In 2002, Durbar invited organisations from around the world to join them in commemorating Sex Worker Rights Day on March 3rd. Since 2002, sex workers and advocates around the world have organised protests, gatherings, film screenings, art shows, and lectures on and around March 3 to raise awareness about human rights abuses sex workers face. Today I want to send my love to all my fellow Blak and POC SWers, seems like we are always going to be fighting to survive in this colony. Just a reminder as well that lot of whorephobia is actually rooted in classism and racism. Full decriminalisation needs to happen so we can ensure our safety. We need to continue to fight hard. End Whorephobia and end the whorearchy. Being Blak and a Sex worker in this colony, we fear losing our homes, being classed as unworthy parents, having our children taken away from us, losing our family, friends, social capital, being discriminated against for healthcare, housing, community support orgs, car loans, personal financing, losing our resources. Not to mention the police brutality we are exposed to. Not only because of being Indigenous but for what we do for work and how we support ourselves and our families. Support SWers Rights today and EVERYDAY!! If you wanna tip/donate to our mutual aid fund today here are details!!! - DSW BSB: 944600 Acc: 001904089 Beem It - @DecoloniseSW 🤍Pris

VIA TrystLink (Sadly cannot tag in captions!) - With the current state of the world economically, socially and politically: there really is no reason to see shows of any kind that ONLY feature white, thin, able-bodied, cishet performers. Before you start lighting the torches and grabbing your pitchforks, let’s really break this down. Firstly, while I am aware that a vast majority of my audience is American, I am not. I currently reside in Melbourne, Australia, so there are some cultural differences to be aware of. While I’ll do my best to flag them as I go, you don’t know what you don’t know… yaknow? Secondly, I am not white, nor am I able bodied, thin, cis, or heterosexual. I am what I like to call a bit of a diversity bingo – so my perspective is going to be from that of a marginalised intersectionality with the one exception. I am very proudly Aboriginal – Wiradjuri/Gamilaroi – and of Scottish heritage. Which means that I am a pale-skinned blakfulla (blak and blakfulla being terms we use to describe all those who are Aboriginal from the many mobs/tribes across so called Australia regardless of actual skin colour), pale enough that I could (if I chose) pass as white. So why bring up my identity when talking about line ups and diversity? For the simple reason that I, as a full time performer and sex worker, am keenly aware of the line ups I am booked in. I have never been able to ignore or pretend not to see the overwhelming cookie-cutter standards of all white, slim, able bodied, cishet line ups I’ve been on. Back when I was first starting as a fetish performer, at the tender age of 18, I remember looking around and feeling sick to my stomach at never seeing a body or features like mine. Worse, when I looked around I couldn’t even see anybody who looked different from what society tells us is ‘beautiful’. I grew up in the age when “heroin chic” was the HEIGHT of fashion – tall, almost skeletal, white models with deep bruising under their dead-eye glare. New from @kitty_obsidian ❤️ Read the full article on the Tryst Link blog! Link in bio Xx Art by Luna Princeton