What Were You Wearing? Australia is an Indigenous, youth-led, not-for-profit organisation fighting to end sexual violence in Australia.

In 2021, Founder and CEO Sarah Williams, brought the “What Were You Wearing?” exhibition over to Australia. After receiving over 9000 story submissions and thousands of attendees, What Were You Wearing? Australia was created to help victim-survivors every day, not just once a year. Since then, a team of dedicated volunteers has helped the organisation grow and expand to multiple states, with influence in communities Australia-wide. In 2023, we amended RSA laws to include mandatory drink spiking prevention training for bar and security staff across NSW. In April 2024, we held nationwide rallies to fight against family, sexual, and domestic violence, with 40+ volunteers, and 100,000 attendees across 17 locations.

  • Advocacy

    Fight for change with us! We won’t stop until we live in a community safe from sexual violence.

    Advocacy with us involves working with institutions, schools, universities and the government on making our world safer.

  • Education

    We commit to providing education to the community on sexual violence, consent, sex, life after trauma, respectful relationships and much more.

    Education is one of the most important things we want to achieve at WWYW, as we believe that is the key to changing the perspectives on victim blaming.

  • Awareness

    From protests to panel events, our team creates events that bring much needed awareness to our key issues.

    With sexual violence being one of the biggest issues Australians are facing, we need to make change NOW.

We have teams in NSW, VIC, WA & QLD!

Current Governance Structure:
- WWYW is an Incorporated Association in NSW & ACT

ACT Association Number: A06453
NSW Incorporation Number: INC2300072

Frequently Asked Questions:

  • Our services run off of the generous contributions from the public.

    These funds go towards our services: Survivor Healing Groups, Festival/Venue Safe Spaces, Survivor Packs, and Advocacy Services.

  • Yes! Our survivor healing groups are led by mental health professionals, to ensure the safety of victim-survivors. If the professional is sick, or unavailable the group cannot go ahead. Our Festival/Venue Safe Spaces, when possible, have mental health professionals. Our future goal is to have funding to have an onsite counsellor present!

  • Please email feedbackwwyw@gmail.com and we can direct you to our feedback form!