Peer Education

Scarlet Alliance practises affirmative action in all of its staffing, volunteer and leadership positions. This is an important part of our commitment to peer education. If you are a sex worker seeking to get more involved in your local sex worker organisation, check the position vacant section of our website, sex workers please apply!!!

Scarlet Alliance Webcast - See Peer Education In Action!

Link to Scarlet Alliance National Forum WebCast

See presentations from Crimson Coalition and United Sex Workers North Queensland, Sex Industry Network South Australia, Tasmanian Sex Worker Activism, US Sex Worker Organising, Thailand, Australia and the Pacific.

Be sure to fill in the polls attached to each presentation

Link to related documents, media release, symposium papers by Elena Jeffreys, “Migrant Sex Workers Research in Australia” and Alina Thomas, "Advocating for sex work organisations, Tasmania."

Policy Discussion About Sex Worker Peer Education

Entering and Exiting Sex Work - A personal perspective

Mistress J personal perspective, download PDF
Mistress J with her bags packed

Users News "The Road Well Travelled" 2009

Julie Bates played a leading role in Australia’s early response to HIV/AIDS and has spent the past three decades working to improve the legal and human rights of marginalised people, specifically sex workers, injecting drug users and people living with HIV/AIDS. Julie was a foundation member of ADIC (the AIDS Drug Information Collective, the forerunner to NUAA) and was the first coordinator of NUAA. Today, Julie heads up Urban Realists, which provides advice and support to the sex industry. In this interview with User’s News editor Gideon Warhaft, Julie talks about the early days of HIV in Australia, specifically its impact on injecting drug users.