00:00Gloria Awoba from Kenya,
00:02Supriya Srinath from India,
00:04and Miriam Bregman from Argentina.
00:07The three politicians have all experienced hate speech on social media
00:10and know just how personal it can get.
00:13You should rape your son.
00:15You should kidnap your son and, you know, rape him,
00:17chop him off in bits and pieces.
00:20Those really affect me.
00:22Gloria Awoba is a senator in the Kenyan parliament.
00:25She's faced a lot of hate online,
00:27especially during her recent pregnancy.
00:42It's an experience Supriya Srinath knows all too well.
00:46She's the spokesperson for India's largest opposition party.
00:49Hate speech, particularly targeting women,
00:52is never hate speech.
00:54It's always hate mixed with sexual violence.
00:57A woman is never trolled for her ideology, mostly.
00:59The first few things that the troll writes is,
01:02they will body shame you,
01:03they will talk about, you know,
01:06they will talk about physical, sexual violence against you,
01:09they will go after your children.
01:12For Supriya Srinath,
01:13online trolling targeting women reflects how they are treated in society.
01:18Hate speech aims to undermine women in leadership roles.
01:21The goal is to constantly degrade you,
01:23to make you feel terrible so that you stop expressing your opinions.
01:26They are especially bothered by women's opinions.
01:30Miriam Bregman is a prominent left-wing political figure in Argentina.
01:33A few years ago, her cell number was leaked in far-right online groups.
01:38She soon began receiving threats.
01:41For Miriam Bregman, the fight against hate speech
01:44isn't just about surviving it.
01:45It's about changing the way we think about hate speech.
01:48Gloria Owobo urges women and girls to stand their ground.
01:51She wants to promote a cultural shift and silence offenders.
02:19Supriya Srinath takes all the hate and threats
02:22and uses them to fuel her fight.
02:26Being in public life, you've got to have a tough skin.
02:29And I have a very, very tough skin.
02:31I have a very tough mental makeup.
02:33None of this dissuades me.
02:36Because I am not going to be threatened
02:38and I care two hoots about what an anonymous bot has to say about me.
02:43An anonymous person with 20 followers
02:46will say something sexually apprehensible against me
02:49doesn't threaten me.
Comments