Anti-sexual harassment advert Guangzhou subway station

Since the Feminist Five were arrested in 2015, a Guangzhou-based feminist activist, Xiao Meili, has worked on a domestic crowd-funding campaign for an anti-sexual harassment ad to be placed at a Guangzhou subway station later this year. Over 1,200 people within China have so far donated small amounts to the campaign, raising more than $6,000 for the ad. Although the amount raised seems small by American standards, activists say that the most important purpose of crowd-funding is to build a strong base of supporters who publicly identify themselves as committed to the feminist movement—an extraordinarily risky position to take in the current political climate.