Here you can find helpful resources and toolkits from the Countering Backlash programme.
Cards Against Backlash: Forwards to a Feminist Future
Institutions and activists are constantly trying new and creative ways to counter the backlash. Our ‘Cards Against Backlash: Forwards to a Feminist Future – Strategies for Surviving and Countering Gender Backlash’ 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.
Partner: Institute of Development Studies.
Resource Pack: Online Safety For Activists
This resource pack aims to share knowledge and learning about online gender-based violence (OGBV). It provides a comprehensive list of strategies and existing protection mechanisms to create safety for online activists and others. Specifically, this resource pack has been created for online activists, users who promote gender justice on social media, and anyone interested in learning about OGBV and creating a safe digital space.
Partner: BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
Paradigm Shift: Countering Backlash Reclaiming Gender Justice
Advocates for Social Change – Kenya (ADSOCK) see victim blaming and ‘what-about-ism’ (‘but what about men and boys?’) around sexual and gender-based violence gaining ground in the country. The organisation’s resource book provides practical ways individuals and organisations can counter this backlash.
Partner: Advocates for Social Change – Kenya (ADSOCK)
Violência Política de Gênero & Direitos Reprodutivos
Em português: O material informativo para jornalistas e comunicadores/as sobre Violência Política de Gênero e Direitos Reprodutivos. A cartilha é resultado do curso de extensão realizado no âmbito do projeto de pesquisa “Combatendo a ocorrência, reivindicando justiça de gênero”.
In English: Informative material for journalists and communicators on gender-based political violence and reproductive rights. The booklet is the result of the extension course carried out within the scope of the research project “Combating occurrences, demanding gender justice”.
Partner: Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies of the Federal University of Bahia (NEIM)
Reversing Domestic Workers’ Rights: Stories of Backlash and Resilience in Delhi
This timely and important storybook shares 12 stories from domestic workers living in Delhi NCR, and the often-tragic tales of their lives. Most often, the terrible way domestic workers are treated by their employers and society is shaped around gendered backlash, and the blocking or dismantling any social and/or legal gains they may have. This is particularly pronounced for domestic workers who are Muslim, who, on top of the existing discrimination, face intense Islamophobia.
Partner: Gender at Work Consulting – India
This Chess – Shatranj or Chaturanga – workshop exercise can be played in various ways. You can play this as an exercise – or a series of exercises – in a workshop setting. You can also do it at home or at your desk, to aid thinking and research. To play, name your ‘players’/’pieces’, and discuss and explore how they contest to reshape the spaces/sites of ‘the body’, ‘the family’ and ‘the nation’. Then, identify what kinds of language, narratives and tactics these different types of anti-feminist actors use about bodies, families and nations – and put it into the squares.
Parnter: Institute for Development Studies
