Cards Against Backlash: Forwards to a Feminist Future - Strategies for Surviving and Countering Gender Backlash

This toolkit is produced by the Countering Backlash programme. We carry out engaged research, generate new debates, and build capacity across networks and strategic partnerships with women’s, LGBTQ+ and other human rights organisations, activists, academics and policymakers, regionally and globally.

Institutions and activists are constantly trying new and creative ways to counter the backlash. This toolkit draws on real-life tactics from our programme but individuals and organisations have been anonymised to keep them safe. These inspiring strategies are based on our struggles.

We have three categories of strategy: Resisting, Surviving and Creating Feminist Futures.

These cards are not a ‘how to’ guide; they are a provocation. We want you to connect these ideas to your own work, so we have created a blank card for your own strategies and each of the existing cards has a space to add to it.