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Honour Consulting was founded in 2008 by Trisha Baptie after she served as an experiential journalist in the Robert Pickton trial for which she won the prestigious "Courage to Come Back" award. Honour offers an abolitionist perspective based on Trisha's fifteen year experience in Vancouver's sex industry a city which, with the Robert Pickton case still in our memories and the 2010 Winter Olympics looming, has been buzzing with conversations around brothels and decriminalization/legalization of prostitution. Honour Consulting has been in dialogue and works along side many different interest groups such as academic institutions, feminist groups, faith-based groups, governmental officials, unions, media outlets and women's groups. Trisha was recently a voice in "Flesh Mapping: 16 Days of Dialogue" hosted by Vancouver Rape Relief at the Vancouver Art Gallery which brought an international panel together to discuss the conditions of women, marketing of women, the nature of pacific trade and the connections between prostitution in Vancouver and international trafficking in girls and women. Trisha is a presenter, supporter and organizer of the "Buying Sex is Not a Sport" campaign which seeks to promote awareness about the intrinsic link between prostitution and human trafficking and how the demand for paid sex fuels it. Honour Consulting is also a proud signatory of the One Is Too Many declaration and is an active participant in all the actions this diverse group undertakes. Trisha is also the founding member of EVE- formerly Exploited Voices now Educating - a group of former sex industry women who challenge the idea of sex as work and views the demand for paid sex as violence against women and prostitution as the product of the systemic oppression of women and children. As a member of EVE Trisha sits on the Vancouver Abolition Coalition and is a strong ally with the groups represented in the coalition. Honour and EVE are non-profit grassroots organizations that want to see Canada adopt the Nordic Model of Prostitution Law and communicate with the world that Canadian women are not for sale. |
Honour's History


