Ladybug (Ambassador Grant)

Breaking the Silence around Gendered Abuse Online

Ladybug is standing up to harassment by empowering young women and young men to confront online hate.  

In 2021, Team Ladybug surveyed 208 young women to gather their experiences and perspectives of gendered hate speech and harassment online and organised a series of workshops on how to best respond to it. They created an online empowerment platform that acted as a safe space for young people affected by this issue.

As Ambassadors, the team built on its success, expanding its audience to include men from the community. They held joint workshops with women and men to improve their abilities to respond to online harassment, and launched a male-targeted social media campaign to expand their awareness raising efforts.