@decrimwa.bsky.social
A collective of current and former s*x workers, working towards the full decriminalisation of SW in Western Australia.
Seggs wjerkers, clients, health promo advocates and Borloo based queers, head over to @decrimwa.bsky.social & give them a follow <3
18.12.2025 04:55 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
PASSIONATE ABOUT SEX WORKER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT? We’re looking for a Project Manager to lead our Lutruwita/Tasmania Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP TAS).
Tasmania Project Manager Part time role | 22.5 hours per week Based in Lutruwita/Tasmania | with flexible options SCHADS Level 6 Permanent position Generous salary sacrifice benefits and extra annual leave over New Year period. This is a dedicated role for a past or present sex worker. We strongly encourage applications from sex workers from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.
As the project manager, you'll coordinate all aspects of SWOP TAS – from writing funding proposals and managing budgets to supervising outreach workers and engaging directly and providing peer support and education with sex workers across Hobart, Launceston, and regional areas. You'll work collaboratively with sex workers, community organisations and health services, and advocate to government to advance evidence-based policy, challenge discrimination, and advance the health, rights and wellbeing of sex workers in Lutruwita / Tasmania.
This role is perfect for someone who: Is passionate about sex worker rights and peer-led community development. Thrives on juggling project management, community engagement, advocacy, and strategic thinking. Can build trusted relationships with diverse communities and navigate complex stakeholder environments. Wants to lead meaningful work that creates real, lasting change. Has lived experience of sex work.
Are you a current or former sex worker passionate about engaging with your community? We're looking for a new Project Manager to lead the Lutruwita/Tasmania Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP TAS). For more information visit www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/Scar...
07.01.2026 04:17 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
OLD CENSORSHIP TACTICS, NEW BRANDING. In an article for Overland, Scarlet Alliance CEO Mish Pony explores a censorship legacy that was the forerunner to Australia’s online safety codes.
“When Senator Brian Harradine handed Prime Minister John Howard a box of pornographic tapes in 2000, he set in motion one of Australia's most enduring censorship legacies. The censorship reforms, which excluded fetishes, kink, and non-mainstream sex acts from the definition of X-rated pornography, were based not on any evidence, but on the personal discomfort of two deeply conservative men.” Scarlet Alliance CEO Mish Pony
“When regulatory frameworks embed vague, ideologically-loaded definitions and enforce them without adequate safeguards, the collateral damage falls on the sex workers, LGBTQIA+ communities, health educators, and young people...” Scarlet Alliance CEO Mish Pony
“Behind the public-facing online safety agenda, are a wide variety of disparate forces: conservative Christian activists, anti-pornography feminists, youth educators, and international organisations ...they share a regulatory instinct: that sex, pornography, and gender diversity are problems to be contained.” Scarlet Alliance CEO Mish Pony
In an article for Overland, Scarlet Alliance CEO Mish Pony explores a censorship legacy that was the forerunner to Australia’s online safety codes. Read the article via overland.org.au/2025/12/howa...
08.12.2025 02:29 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
OUR HUMAN RIGHTS SHAME On this International Human Rights Day, join us in resisting Australia’s detention expansion. The image shows a black background and metal handcuffs. The Scarlet Alliance logo is in the bottom right hand corner.
Australia’s human rights record is currently undergoing review by the UN Human Rights Council. During a joint submission with other non-government organisations, the organisations listed in this post noticed something troubling: many groups in unceded Australia weren't willing to challenge our reliance on detention and incarceration.
When we accept locking people up as normal, unceded Australia keeps building more cages. This expanding system is expensive, ineffective, and violates human rights, without delivering justice or improving community safety.
It traps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, children, people with disability, migrants, LGBTQI+ people, and other criminalised communities in ongoing cycles of poverty, joblessness and violence.
This International Human Rights Day, the National Network of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls, Sisters Inside, the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group and Scarlet Alliance have joined forces. Read our demands at linktr.ee/scarlet_alliance and stand in solidarity with us.
09.12.2025 23:00 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
A black image with bold red and white text shown diagonally. The white text highlights the words End Violence Now. The Scarlet Alliance logo is a red umbrella with white text and it is in the bottom right hand corner.
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We honour all sex workers who have been subjected to violence, murdered or died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. These acts of violence are hate crimes. We honour them by: fighting policy failures challenging all unjust laws exposing the violent actions of governments maintaining the legacy of community-led activism built around the peers we have lost, campaigning to end the violence of Border Force against Asian migrant sex workers. Strength and solidarity from Respect Inc, SWOP NT, SIN, SWOP NSW, Magenta, SWEAR, SWOP ACT, Scarlet Alliance, Touching Base, ATSISWAG and AMSWAG
State violence actively harms sex workers.Criminalisation of our work creates barriers to justice and impunity for offenders committing violence against us. Border Force raids cause profound and lasting trauma for sex workers, workplaces, and communities. Racial profiling of Asian migrant sex workers at the border results in immigration detention. It exposes migrant sex workers, particularly trans women, to significant risks of physical and sexual violence, including denial of medical care and deportation to danger. Street-based sex workers in every jurisdiction except NT and QLD continue to face arrest and ‘move-on’ notices. Working privately with a friend for safety and support is still criminalised in the ACT, SA and WA.
We cannot end this violence without dismantling colonialism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and patriarchy, and ending poverty and the criminalisation of drugs.
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. We honour all sex workers who have been murdered or have died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. Read our briefing papers at linktr.ee/scarlet_alliance
16.12.2025 23:01 — 👍 23 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1
MIGRANT JUSTICE NOW Australia must sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
Today is International Migrants Day. It commemorates the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The Convention states: “…the rights of migrant workers and members of their families have not been sufficiently recognised everywhere and therefore require appropriate international protection.”
![Article 7 of the Convention:
“[Countries must] respect and ensure to all migrant workers and members of their families within their territory…the rights provided for in the present Convention without distinction of any kind such as to sex, race, colour, language, religion or conviction, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, nationality, age, economic position, property, marital status, birth or other status.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:txzu5yis23e2zbx6ziqdnskh/bafkreihvw4r65iyethmtkiozjy6n52veolkxt7hged6gwnyglv7r3k2ghy@jpeg)
Article 7 of the Convention: “[Countries must] respect and ensure to all migrant workers and members of their families within their territory…the rights provided for in the present Convention without distinction of any kind such as to sex, race, colour, language, religion or conviction, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, nationality, age, economic position, property, marital status, birth or other status.”
The convention entered into force in 2003. Australia has still not signed it. Further, actions by Australian government agencies have defied Article 7. Border Force’s ‘Operation Inglenook’ (2022-2024) refused 208 people entry into Australia. Most were women under 30 years old. Almost all were from Asian backgrounds. Racist targeting and gender-based profiling of Asian-background trans women at the border results in our community being detained, unable to access gender affirming care, without legal support or dignity.
This International Migrants Day we call on the Australian Government to sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families. We demand justice for all migrants in unceded Australia.
17.12.2025 22:30 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Red or black?
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Devil girl with big grin
This year I’m going to focus hard on making art every day and not locking any of it behind paywalls.
It would, however, be nice to afford food and medications, so I will be posting my kofi more with little previews of whatever I’m workin on.
ko-fi.com/fiveonefive
I have to conclude after 6 hours of walking around with a petition to Sanction Israel that Perth Western Australia as of today is overwhelmingly in favour of Sanctioning Israel for war crimes. We got 8 refusals to sign, 5 disinterested and 3 Zionists. ( none of the ppl refusing to sign were Jewish )
03.01.2026 04:06 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0When Trump decides he will 'acquire' Western Australia because they need it strategically, & for mineral resources of course, will @albomp.bsky.social get past 'monitoring events'?
#auspol
For #PurpleFriday the beautiful Elythranthera brunonis purple enamel orchid, endemic to the south west of Western Australia.
#flowers #bloomscrolling
DecrimWA wishes our community a safe and restful holiday period. Our team will be offline from today, returning on Monday 12 January 2026.
Wishing all of the sex worker community and our allies a safe and happy holiday period. We look forward to campaigning with you in 2026!
19.12.2025 01:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Decriminalise sex work in WA for Safety and justice. The bottom left hand corner shows the Decrim WA logo which is text with a red umbrella
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers It was started in the US in 2003 by the Sex Workers Outreach Project, to remember sex workers targeted by a serial killer in Washington State in the 1980s and 1990s. Their deaths were ignored by police. Every 17 December, we remember and honour sex workers who have been killed or hurt by violence.
WE DEMAND SAFETY AT WORK Laws that criminalise sex workers, our safety strategies and our workplaces increase our vulnerability to violence and reduce our access to justice. Criminalisation makes it easier for perpetrators to target us.
Criminalisation is consistently linked to increased experiences of physical and sexual violence against sex workers
Today is International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers. We remember and honour all sex workers who have been murdered or have died as a result of criminalisation, stigma, and discrimination. Decriminalisation means safety and justice!
17.12.2025 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Are you living or working in Boorloo (Perth)? Edith Cowan University is producing a panel event titled "De-stigmatising s*x and p#rn: fantasy, reality & the inbetween".
Thursday 7 August 2025 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+08) at The Alex Hotel
Limited tickets at: www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
