Before The Bot: Fists.

The first year of Aurat Raaj had no technology in it at all. It was a platform where Pakistani women told their own stories — interviews with women leaders and role models, women in gang-war neighbourhoods and conflict zones, transgender women, women talking openly about sexual and reproductive choice. And it was self-defence classes: rows of schoolgirls in Karachi learning to punch and break a grab, so they could walk out of a room. Physical self-defence first. The digital kind came later, and it was the same idea.