Vixen is Victoria’s peer sex worker organisation, proudly run 100% by and for current and former sex workers. Our purpose is to advance the rights, health, safety, and well-being of all Victorian sex workers, ensuring sex worker voices and experiences are at the centre of everything we do.
Vixen is a member of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and the Victorian member organisation of Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, the national peak body for sex workers and sex worker organisations across unceded Australia.
Vixen operates on the stolen, unceded lands of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, and Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nations. We acknowledge their sovereignty, pay respects to Elders past and present, and stand in solidarity with First Nations communities in the ongoing fight for justice.
About Us
Our Work
Outreach: Providing peer support, and promoting bodily autonomy and harm reduction supplies and resources to sex workers in venues, private workspaces, online, and street-based settings.
Peer support: Drawing on our lived experience as sex workers, we offer advocacy and both emotional and practical support to sex workers. We support our community in navigating health, social, economic, migration and legal systems, fostering trust and understanding through shared experience, empowerment, resilience, and mutual respect.
Peer education: Sharing information, and facilitating workshops and skillshares that empower sex workers to navigate their rights and support each other.
Mutual aid: Encouraging the collaborative exchange of resources, information and services within sex worker communities, to reduce social, economic, and political barriers to meeting essential needs.
Community events: Facilitating peer-led spaces and organising social and advocacy-focused events to strengthen connection and solidarity within the sex worker community.
Advocacy: Leading campaigns and engaging in consultations to improve policies and legislation impacting sex workers in Victoria.
Resource development: Producing sex worker-specific materials addressing health, safety, and workplace rights.
Training: Delivering training to services and organisations to enhance awareness and understanding of sex worker experiences within the broader community.
Our Purpose
Advocating for the cultural, legal, human, and industrial rights of all sex workers in Victoria.
Providing peer support, education, outreach, and harm reduction services grounded in the lived experiences of sex workers.
Building community and solidarity through events, skillsharing, and resource development.
Challenging stigma, discrimination, and the social marginalisation of sex workers by promoting sex work as legitimate, skilled labour.
Engaging with policymakers, health services, and other organisations to ensure sex worker perspectives are included in decision-making processes.
Our Values
Peer leadership: Sex workers are the experts in our own lives. Our peer model and community consultation practices strive to ensure our services and advocacy reflect lived experience.
Human rights: We fight for the recognition of sex work as work and advocate for the industrial, legal, and social rights of sex workers.
Harm reduction and bodily autonomy: We prioritise the safety, health, and well-being of sex workers through evidence-based and community-informed strategies.
Diversity and inclusion: Vixen proudly represents and supports sex workers of all genders, cultural backgrounds, and working environments; including sex workers who use drugs, trans and gender-diverse sex workers, street-based sex workers, and migrant sex workers.
Self-determination: We operate on a “nothing about us, without us” basis, ensuring sex workers are at the forefront of any policy or narrative affecting our lives.