In January 2017, a ‘feminism of the 99 per cent’ declared itself with the million-strong march against the Trump Administration in the us. In China, the arrest in 2015 of five young women preparing to sticker Beijing’s public transport against sexual violence-members of Young Feminist Activism, an online coalition that’s played cat-and-mouse with the authorities-was met with web petitions signed by over 2 million people. In Argentina, feminist campaigners against domestic violence were at the forefront of protests against Macri’s shock therapy. In Brazil, 30,000 black women descended on the capital in 2015 to demonstrate against sexual violence and racism, calling for the ouster of the corrupt head of the National Congress, Eduardo Cunha earlier that year, the March of Margaridas brought over 50,000 rural women to Brasília. The protests against sexual assault on us campuses blazed across the New York media in 2014. In India, mass rallies condemned the gang rape of Jyoti Pandey in 2012 and feminist flash-mobs have disrupted the moral-policing operations of Hindutva fundamentalists.
Yet there were already signs that something new was stirring in the us and uk student protests of 2010, the 2011 Occupy encampments at Puerta del Sol and Zuccotti Park. O f all the opposition movements to have erupted since 2008, the rebirth of a militant feminism is perhaps the most surprising-not least because feminism as such had never gone away women’s empowerment has long been a mantra of the global establishment.
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