The discrimination we face and the services we need to exit: after years in the sex industry, Sabrinna speaks out for the first time

‘Women enter the sex trade for money and the trade makes promises of loads of cash that it never delivers....

Exposing kids to porn makes healthy respect based relationships impossible Collective Shout tells Senate inquiry

‘The proliferation and globalisation of hypersexualised imagery and pornographic themes has led to destructive ideas about sex and makes healthy...

28 Apr 2016

Sex industry survivors to address Gold Coast Prostitution Narratives launch Friday

Media Release Four women who spent years in the sex industry in Australia, New Zealand and the UK will share...

‘I had nearly 20 men brought to me that first night…after the first few I just became a robot’: Sex industry survivor’s powerful video

‘Who will speak for my friends who took their lives because they could see no other way?’ The most powerful...

‘These pages are chiselled from the pain of your lives’: MTR speech at Prostitution Narratives launch in Melbourne

A written testimony of suffering, pain – and resilience Our new book, Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex...

Sex trade survivor’s open letter to the men who paid for her

Tanja’s letter in Prostitution Narratives reprinted on News.com Former prostitute takes aim at her clients in scathing letter Dear sex...

‘It was like experiencing a car crash every weekend’: Prostitution Narratives contributor Jade on life in the sex trade

This news.com.au feature by Emma Reynolds today is the first mainstream media piece on our new book Prostitution Narratives: Stories...

Announcing first national gathering of sex trade survivors this weekend – Media Release

April 6, 2016 CATWA condemns threats of violence at sex trade conference See also: Anti sex trade conference, survivor stories...

Anti sex trade conference + survivor stories book launch Melbourne April 9-10

‘World’s oldest oppression’ the first ever gathering of sex industry survivors and abolitionists in Australia, will be held at RMIT...

6 Apr 2016

A brief history of the General Sexism of General Pants

[View the story “General Pants co.” on Storify] See also: This week’s dose of ugly sexism bought to you by...

This week’s dose of ugly sexism bought to you by General Pants, Calvin Klein & Burger Urge

Governments and regulatory bodies continue to ignore the culture drivers fueling sexist attitudes and behaviours This week we’ve had big...

An intrusive non-consensual act of sexual harassment played for entertainment: MTR on Madonna and the teen she abused

Madonna turns her back on the cause of women In exposing the breast of a 17-year-old fan, Madonna sets back...