Around the world, humanitarian, political, and climate crises are intensifying with alarming speed, while hard-won democratic, human rights, and gender justice protections are under ever-greater attacks. As feminist activists and their movements mobilize solutions to these challenges, they are being targeted with increased—and increasingly intense—forms of backlash, or “reprisals.”

From experiences of digital surveillance and smear campaigns, to violence that targets the well-being of activists’ organizations, loved ones, and communities, their stories are a cautionary tale for us all.