Fine just fine you never treated me well any way f--- you and your f---ing dumbass cat hope it dies c---

This is a copy of a real-life text message received by my daughter earlier this year in the wake of breaking up with her first boyfriend. She was 12 years old.

This week, I’m thinking about what that message represents, not just for my daughter but for every girl growing up in a world where digital spaces allow men – and boys – to enact new forms of harm.

How to address an increase in digital violence against women and girls?Credit: iStock

We are four days into a United Nations global campaign, 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence, which runs until Human Rights Day on December 10. The campaign’s theme this year: “End digital violence against all women and girls”.

November 25, the first day of this campaign, marked the 1960 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, who were political activists from the Dominican Republic. The Mirabal sisters are remembered for their courageous activism. They resisted the cruel and systemic violence of dictator Rafael Trujillo’s reign, leading an underground movement to challenge his regime. They were imprisoned, tortured and relentlessly targeted. Still, they fought on for justice, fuelled by feminist resistance.

Now, the 16........

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