HASSL Launches Teens Space for Young Voices

HASSL is proud to announce the launch of HASSL Teens, a dedicated space for 13-17 year-olds to engage, lead, and shape the future of our movement. Designed with care and purpose, HASSL Teens offers monthly global meetings, opportunities to create content, contribute to research, build school initiatives and more.

This initiative matters because sexism, harassment, and misogyny begin early – and the voices of young people are too often sidelined in conversations about safety and equity. From school corridors to online spaces, teens live the earliest versions of these harms. HASSL Teens ensures they are not bystanders but leaders.

By inviting teenagers into the movement, we strengthen HASSL’s impact in multiple ways: we cultivate new generations of advocates, ground our work in lived experiences from younger people, and extend our reach into schools, youth communities, and peer networks. This is a strategic move in Stage 3 of our five-stage plan: expanding structural participation, diversifying leadership, and scaling culture change by embedding it earlier in life.

Launching HASSL Teens was not simple. We needed to balance openness with safety, because minors must be supported. That meant developing additional procedures on top of our existing safeguarding policies, and a dedicated Lead with decades of working in children and young people's  services. We also needed to craft programming that is engaging, flexible, and meaningful.

From here, HASSL Teens will grow: recruiting globally, launching youth-led campaigns, feeding teen insights into our book, training, and systems work, and ensuring younger voices inform every layer of HASSL’s mission.