This is Scarlet Alliance’s Strategic Plan for 2021-2026. The document provides the strategic framework and direction for Scarlet Alliance’s work for the next five years. The Strategic Plan is the result of extensive input from Scarlet Alliance membership, staff, volunteers and Executive Committee members. The Strategic Plan describes our visions and provides goals, objectives, and strategies under each vision.

The 2021-2026 Strategic Plan

For the first time, Scarlet Alliance has included a statement about our values in the Strategic Plan. We believe that these values are at the heart of our organisation and underpin our work. It is important to recognise that while these values reflect our beliefs and ideals, in some cases they reflect where we aspire to be, and require investment to put them into long-term, sustained, everyday practice. It is our intention that our leadership, workplaces and the structure of our organisation all embody these values. Our values sit upon an underlying and intergenerational bedrock of knowledge in sex worker organising. Firstly, that sex workers are not simply working to reform the system but instead to dismantle it and generate our own alternatives. Secondly, that our experiences of whorephobia are entangled with multiple intersecting oppressions, and that anti-oppressive work involves solidarity with other social movements. Thirdly, that our movement needs to centre the lived experience and leadership of sex workers who have experienced cumulative marginalisation. Scarlet Alliance continues to have the mission of achieving equality, social, legal, political, cultural, health and economic justice for past and present workers in the sex industry, in order for sex workers to be self-determining agents, building our own alliances and choosing where and how we work. The Strategic Plan identifies our visions for the upcoming five years. Our values guide us through this terrain to achieve our mission and realise our visions together.

Values

Accountability

We are an organisation comprised of sex workers and accountable to sex workers.

Autonomy

We act to preserve our autonomy from funders, governments, research and corporations.

Collectivism

We remain community-connected and act collectively to ensure no sex worker is left behind.

Participation

Accessible participation, skill building and community development are central to our work.

Solidarity

We work alongside social movements to end intersecting oppressions and unjust systems.

Transformation

We strive to transform the current landscape to create a safe, inclusive and just world for sex workers.