PERSPECTIVE Feminisms on the Move Against the Backlash, Towards New Solidarities Christa Wichterich October 2016 n Gender is once again a highly contested area in many societies and cultures. Fem­inisms face a massive backlash by neo-conservative, fundamentalist religious, and right-wing populist forces. These controversies need feminist responses and require the repoliticisation of feminist issues and new solidarities across the diversity of fem­inisms and their growing fragmentation. n Feminisms have a lot of potential and experience to inspire alliances and other move­ments with their rights and justice-oriented concepts, linkages between practical needs and strategic interests, emancipatory objectives and transformatory perspec­tives, and concepts of autonomous spaces, thinking outside the box, and transversal dialogues. n Intersectionality can be used as an analytical and strategic tool to differentiate and politicise gender issues, to develop translocal and transnational solidarities, and to build strategic inclusionary alliances geared towards multiscalar justice. Feminisms can articulate themselves through other justice movements. n Common points of reference as violence against women, loss of livelihood due to neo-liberal globalisation, care work, and food sovereignty are helping to create new solidarities between feminisms and for strategic alliance building with other social movements.