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25.01.2022 'Digital security is a form of harm reduction. In this training we share tips and tools on how to lock down social media to make any revealing or personal information more difficult for malicious actors to find. If you get doxxed, it is NOT your fault. As we discuss in the training, everyone’s threat models look different. What works for some people, may not work for you! No one knows you, or your needs better than you. Please take what actions and advice work for you! What f...ollows is information and SUGGESTIONS based upon our experiences and research. What is Doxxing? Doxxing or Doxing is typically a cyber attack in which someone with malicious intent releases personal, private, or stigmatized information about someone without their consent, knowledge or control. Doxxing is a form of abuse and harassment in which information is collected and shared through a combination of web searches, reverse image searches, combing through social media, use of the way back machine, publicly available databases, hacking and social engineering. Doxxing rarely takes place because of information found on a single website. It is most often piecing together bits of information from all sorts of open source information found online. Doxxing can often leave an individual feeling fearful, vulnerable and alone. So we want to share some concrete tips on how you can take action to protect your private information online! All of this is covered more in depth in the training, but below are a few tips and resources if you are just browsing quickly.' https://hackinghustling.org/doxxing-prevention-harm-reduct/

24.01.2022 If the Sex Worker Relief Fund has shown us anything, it's that sex workers always look out for each other. Vic sex workers are unable to work and many cannot access government support. Do what you do best, share &/or donate now: https://t.co/SY2hTT3y22 https://t.co/osoFNxmtjI

23.01.2022 An excellent guide for media covering the decrim campaign in Queensland! https://respectqld.org.au//Sex-Work-Media-Guide-Respectful

21.01.2022 'In March, Scarlet Alliance, along with other Australian sex worker organisations, formed a working group known as the National Cabinet of Whores. Meeting every week, the Cabinet of Whores has developed advice around financial support, pandemic restrictions and back-to-work requirements. It has also developed harm reduction advice for in-person work, such as not working if feeling unwell, screening clients and washing hands after touching money. These materials have also be...en translated into Chinese, Thai, Korean and Vietnamese. The Cabinet of Whores has been crowdfunding to try and provide extra financial support for sex workers who have lost income and issued advice around transitioning to online, non-contact work. This includes webcam and phone sex work, offering social time on the phone or online and selling pictures and videos.' https://theconversation.com/how-the-national-cabinet-of-who

21.01.2022 'A rare opportunity to experience a short series of lectures by three of Australia's foremost Aboriginal thinkers, writers and academics.' https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/black-fire-a-taste-of-histo

21.01.2022 Feeling the Victorian lockdown blues? Looking for some info about emergency relief or referrals to free legal advice? Want to meet the Vixen Collective committee? ... Need a space to vent with people who get it? Dylan (they/them), Peaches (she/her), River (he/him) and Maria (she/her) will be available on Zoom from 3pm-5pm this Friday for a peer-support drop-in session! Pop in for a couple of minutes or stay the whole time. The choice is yours! Have something more private you would like to discuss? Jump into a private break out room with one of our peer support workers, Peaches and Dylan. This is a sex worker peer-only event. Please DM for details.

20.01.2022 Don't shop at Office Works today. Solidarity with retail workers

20.01.2022 Support CJ Palmer and get your hands on some of the freshest postcards in the southern hemisphere! Solidarity and style, what more could a whore ask for?

19.01.2022 Great news for sex workers in the ACT!

19.01.2022 '''Emotional labor has become a catch-all phrase for the work women tend to carry in relationships, from household chores, to offering therapy to their emotionally stilted partners. But Arlie Hochschild’s original definition in 1983 in her book Managed Heart, was designed to capture how service workers manage and suppress their own feelings to draw clients into the right mood to spend money. It’s the invisible and demanding work that fuels our economy. The mask capitalism we...ars to the world. Luring people into the state of mind to suspend doubts about consuming relies on the ability to control difficult and demanding customers. In his review on the function of emotional labor, Sushanta Mishra discussed how workers had an easier time mollifying their clients’ arduous emotions when they came off sociable, pleasant, and likable. Laborers accomplish this by deep acting, which Hochschild defined as the effort of changing how you feel so you display an emotion that will positively impact what target audience experience. As opposed to surface acting, or bluffing emotions that aren’t actually felt, deep acting is grueling, all-consuming labor that deteriorates the demarcation between real and feigned emotions. Bluffing an outward countenance at the call center and dive bar was tiring, but I kept a grip on my sense of self. I knew, for example, that I was exaggerating when I told the raucous regular at the dive bar how much I loved his haircut. In the same way, I was aware of the pangs of anguish and anger that I suppressed to calm down aggravated customers who were rightfully upset about their health care bills. In other words, there was a wall between me and work; a breathing space that allowed me to feel comfortable expressing a range of emotions outside of work, and thus, comfortable expressing a range of vulnerability needed to connect with people. Yet, with the lack of physical and emotional shield between me and my customers, it wasn’t enough to act on the surface.'

19.01.2022 Want to help support workers effected by Covid-19? Love sex worker storytelling? Join us and celebrate Sex Worker Pride September 14th at this on-line sex worker fundraiser. Don't miss this amazing line up of sex worker story tellers and performers! Buy your house a front row seat to this sex worker pride party. 100% of funds raised go to the emergency relief fund for sex workers during #covid19au ... Buy a $10/$20/$50/$100 + bf ticket for your household to listen & watch the show. Tickets & story tellers bios at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gloryhole-night-of-sex-worker-

19.01.2022 Want to help support workers affected by Covid-19? Love sex worker storytelling? Join us and celebrate Sex Worker Pride September 14th at this on-line sex worker fundraiser. Don't miss this amazing line up of sex worker story tellers and performers! Buy your house a front row seat to this sex worker pride party. 100% of funds raised go to the emergency relief fund for sex workers during #covid19au ... Buy a $10/$20/$50/$100 + bf ticket for your household to listen & watch the show. Tickets & story tellers bios at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gloryhole-night-of-sex-worker-

19.01.2022 Please share and sign! Sex workers will be especially vulnerable to eviction over the coming months as we are unable to work and many cannot access centrelink. How can we 'stay home' if we don't have a home to go to? 'Thousands of us are still being stalled in negotiating a rent reduction, and are facing eviction in coming weeks. At the end of September the much needed Jobseeker and JobKeeper payments will be slashed.... At the same time, the COVID19 Omnibus eviction moratorium is set to end. For those of us who were already struggling to stay afloat we will be expected to live on $3 a week. While we’re expected to stay home, we need to make sure we have a secure home to stay in. The COVID19 pandemic demands long term solutions. Deferring the problem only exacerbates the crisis. Time is running out.' #ExtendTheMoratorium #RentReliefNow #Nooneleftbehind

18.01.2022 Many anti-sex worker advocates use phrases like ‘abolition’ in regards to working to make sex work illegal. True prison abolitionists know that there is no prison abolition without the decriminalization of sex work. http://ow.ly/wFsL50BegZ7

17.01.2022 ***any gender experiencing violence

17.01.2022 Need help negotiating a rent reduction? Wondering what will happen when the moratorium on evictions ends? Want to know what your rights are as a renter? Get along to the Renters And Housing Union - VIC renters rights forum this Thursday! https://facebook.com/events/s/renters-rights-how-to-get-a-re/1171718506561333/?ti=cl

17.01.2022 Can you imagine if the government invested as much in cleaners as they have in police during the pandemic? Much like sex workers, many cleaners who have lost their jobs during lockdown have had no access to Jobseeker or Jobkeeper. Let's take care of cleaners so that cleaners can take care of us! ... Please sign!

15.01.2022 Let's get ACT sex workers back to work!

15.01.2022 Many of you would have seen that Daniel Andrews has announced a new round of restrictions. We will be investigating what this means for sex workers in Victoria in the coming days. We know this is going to be really tough for a lot of people. Don't hesitate to reach out if you need support

14.01.2022 We had a wonderful time in our peer support drop in session today! It was like a virtual brothel lounge, just without the bosses and clients. Thanks to everyone who joined us

14.01.2022 ***HAPPENING TODAY*** Feeling the Victorian lockdown blues? Looking for some info about emergency relief or referrals to free legal advice?... Want to meet the Vixen Collective committee? Need a space to vent with people who get it? Dylan (they/them), Peaches (she/her), River (he/him) and Maria (she/her) will be available on Zoom from 3pm-5pm this Friday for a peer-support drop-in session! Pop in for a couple of minutes or stay the whole time. The choice is yours! Have something more private you would like to discuss? Jump into a private break out room with one of our peer support workers, Peaches and Dylan. This is a sex worker peer-only event. Please DM for details.

10.01.2022 It’s official! The #covid19 #eviction moratorium has been extended! - This is a huge win for our collective efforts as a voice for #rentersrights - There’s a ...longer road ahead, and we now have more time. - If you’re facing rental stress, or problems with getting a reduction, contact us, we can help. If you’re a renter, join your RAHUnion! https://RAHU.org.au/

10.01.2022 TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW! Want to help support workers affected by Covid-19? Love sex worker storytelling? Join us and celebrate Sex Worker Pride September 14th at this on-line sex worker fundraiser. Don't miss this amazing line up of sex worker story tellers and performers! Buy your house a front row seat to this sex worker pride party. ... 100% of funds raised go to the emergency relief fund for sex workers during #covid19au Buy a $10/$20/$50/$100 + bf ticket for your household to listen & watch the show. Tickets & story tellers bios at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gloryhole-night-of-sex-worker-

10.01.2022 'After abolition: what next? Abolition is not just about tearing everything down, it’s about imagining and building new, revolutionary futures. Racial capitalism prevents us from the vital work of imagining different futures. But when we can find ways to create, speculate, envisage, together, the possibilities are endless. Art is one path of abolition and rebuilding, for our movements, our politics, our environments, our histories and ourselves. To imagine new worlds is to st...art creating them. Our final panel brings together artists and writers who work with alternate realities and revolutionary futures to ask: what sets us free? Hosted by Layla-Roxanne Hill, writer/curator-artist/organiser, our speakers will be: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, an artist whose work seeks to archive Black trans experience, using technology to imagine black trans lives in environments that centre our bodies; Francesca Sobande, lecturer, researcher and writer with a particular focus on digital culture, Black diaspora, feminism, creative work and popular culture; Morgan M Page, Canadian writer, performance and video artist, and activist currently based in London, who writes and hosts the trans history podcast One From the Vaults; Cory Cocktail, power exchange architect and escort, and a post disciplinary artist with an interest in the intersections of the body and technology; and Khaleb Brooks, multi- disciplinary artist and researcher exploring blackness, transness, the body and collective memory.'

09.01.2022 "The thing we hear time and time again when an event gets cancelled is that, 'We're being deplatformed' ... literally none of them would face up." Alice Snedden's BAD NEWS, episode 2 | Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists [TERFS]: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/bad-news

08.01.2022 From Street Health Overdose Prevention Site Responding to overdoses during COVID-19, evaluating high risk and low risk responses, and deciding what works for you - an infographic (call 000 not 911!) For a printable version visit http://bit.ly/NaloxoneCOVID Stay safe . #naloxone #overdoseresponse #harmreduction

08.01.2022 Dan Andrews will be making an announcement about Victorian COVID-19 restrictions this Sunday. Vixen Collective is in communication with the government and Victoria Police. We will let you know what all this means for Victorian sex workers as soon as possible! As always:

08.01.2022 Missed the panel discussion on decrim last week? Catch the recorded version here!

07.01.2022 'For starters, the new changes mean that some models now have to wait an entire month for their payouts, which used to only be held for one week for processing purposes. Obviously, this is frustrating at the best of times, but in the middle of a global pandemic, the extra three weeks could potentially put vulnerable people in really dire situations. Additionally, the new limits have massively restricted the amount of money sex workers can actually make on the platform. Consid...ering many sex workers invest time and money into PPV photoshoots that they’d usually sell for upwards of $500, this new change is expected to hit the community hard.' Real talk though: as much as SWer tourists like Bella Thorne suck, Only Fans is the real enemy. https://www.pedestrian.tv/se/bella-thorne-onlyfans-changes/

05.01.2022 "One of the three main demands of protesters is to Stop oppression, harassment and intimidation of the people. Sex workers in Thailand (and around the world) live and work in an atmosphere of harassment and intimidation created by criminalization of sex work. The police intimidating and arresting students are the same police who harass and arrest us. The police cells they are held in are the same cells we are held in. Empower stands with all those demanding an end to oppression. It must include the end of the oppressive Prostitution Act. Empower is collecting 10,000 signatures needed to have the issue of repealing the law raised in Parliament. Nobody’s Wrong ... Decriminalize"

04.01.2022 The Victorian Government has established an $80 million rental assistance fund to provide rent relief payments of up to $3,000 to Victorians experiencing rental hardship due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To be eligible for the grant you will need to have: - Registered a revised rental agreement with Consumer Affairs Victoria... - Have less than $10,000 in savings (excluding superannuation) - Have an income of less than $1,903 per week before tax Be paying more than 30% of your income in rent https://rentrelief.covid19.dhhs.vic.gov.au/

03.01.2022 '...everyone must commit to learning from sex workers about sex work and sex workers’ needs.' http://ow.ly/kF1550Behk1

03.01.2022 DON'T DRINK THE TAP WATER if you live in these suburbs! Stay safe pals!

02.01.2022 #stoppolicebrutality #stopblackdeathsincustody #justiceforwalker #istandwithyuendumu

02.01.2022 'In this house we like to celebrate SEX WORKER PRIDE DAY (14/9) by speaking to sex workers Anita & Lilly for a bit of a sex work 101! We also plug the Emergency Support Fund for Sex Workers in Australia. Also, Anita tries to correct me on what a real fin dom arrangement is because my Patreon seems to get it the wrong way around. They'll never understand what makes us special, daddy. SUPPORT SEX WORKERS PLS THX' https://poorcanfeedthebirds.podbean.com/e/019-sex-work/

01.01.2022 '...a range of draconian measures are being implemented under the guise of ‘public health and safety’, and these have deeply concerning implications, particularly if sunset clauses are not adhered to, and these rules eventually creep into permanence.' http://ow.ly/P9A550Beh2J