Queering Gender Backlash

This article 'queers' the concept of gender backlash - troubling some of its assumptions and drawing attention to the centrality of heteronormativity to an anti -gender worldview. It argues that backlash is both episodic and continuous, and that the focus on 'gender' in anti -gender politics tends to eclipse the affective importance of sexuality in backlash politics. It argues, also, for a less binary approach to (counter -backlash) activism - that recognises survival as a form of resistance. Finally, it suggests the potential of leveraging intersectionalities to forge counter -backlash solidarities.