Given that the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is #DigitAll: Innovation and technology for gender equality, it only seems fitting that I’m spending my time attending sessions online at the 67th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. As I write this, I’m listening to a parallel event conversation circle on freedom of opinion and expression. Many of the discussions are centred on whether online social platforms allow women to freely express ourselves, or whether these platforms are providing safe online spaces for women. The overwhelming response is that no, they don’t. I’ve heard from countless women today mentioning that the second they started making political points online, whether they were feminist, anti-racist, pro gay rights, etc., they started to receive online…
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