Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Trisha Baptie

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Nationality
  
Canadian

Home town
  
Vancouver

Role
  
Activist


Name
  
Trisha Baptie

Citizenship
  
Canadian

Organization
  
EVE

Trisha Baptie httpspbstwimgcomprofileimages1757321818im

Occupation
  
Anti-prostitution activist

Website
  
www.honourconsulting.com

Prostitution abolitionist trisha baptie


Trisha Baptie (born 1973) is a Vancouver-based citizen journalist and activist for the abolition of prostitution.

Contents

Permitting prostitution former prostitute trisha baptie 426 3


Biography

Baptie was first forced into prostitution at the age of 13. This was the beginning of her 15-year period in the sex-industry, both indoor and outdoor, most of which was spent in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside area.

At the age of 28, Baptie took the opportunity to exit prostitution.

In 2007, Baptie became a citizen journalist for Orato, an online newspaper, to cover the murder trial of Robert Pickton, most of whose victims were picked up from the Downtown Eastside. Many of Pickton's victims were known to Baptie.

In 2009, Baptie co-founded EVE, a volunteer, non-governmental, non-profit organization of former sex-industry women dedicated to naming prostitution violence against women and seeing its abolition through political action, advocacy, and public education.

In 2009-2010, Baptie was a community mobilizer in the Buying Sex is Not a Sport campaign in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver. She was a focal speaker in the Langara Dialogues, a public forum in which the subjects of prostitution, human trafficking, community responsibility, abolition, legalization, and their ties to the Olympics were discussed and debated.

In 2010, Baptie appeared in a documentary film, "Our Lives to Fight For". She also joined Christine Barkhouse, Natasha Falle, Katarina MacLeod, and Bridgett Perrier in Toronto, in picketing the repeal of prostitution laws. All five women are survivors of human trafficking who had been forced into prostitution in Canada.

Baptie's life and work are central in the 2013 film "Buying Sex", directed by Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason and facilitated by the Canadian National Film Board.

Honors and awards

In 2008, Baptie won the Courage to Come Back award.

References

Trisha Baptie Wikipedia