Activism is part of feminist geography's foundational mission. As Melissa Wright has noted, a commitment to activism weaves through the subdiscipline, constituting a unifying theme and approach to practice (Wright, 2008). As the authors of this volume have shown, this orientation continues to open new dialogues between academics, practitioners, and activists across different cultural contexts, and topical foci in ways that advance both scholarly work and real-world efforts to fight injustice and re-make the world as a fairer, more equitable and more accepting place. While GeoBrujas’ open discussion on the entwined projects of theory and method production in feminist collective spaces toward addressing problems of dispossession and violence, Zaragocin traces out how feminist geography has become part of larger critical praxis in Latin American focusing on decolonialization.

Fluri's chapter reflects on the difficulties of navigating between the production of knowledge and the prodigious task of disseminating knowledge that counters prevailing political discourses in the context of Afghanistan, connecting with Eaves’ chapter, which describes Black women's everyday resistance in the United States South over two centuries of movement work. Boyer's chapter mapped the background to understanding efforts to fight back against sexual harassment and other forms of gender violence in the UK, while Fannin's work highlighted the ruthlessness of the state in implementing anti-immigrant policies through the restriction of services to pregnant people, also highlighting the power and potential of maternal activism in the form of witnessing and accompaniment of pregnant people to help them get the services they need in hostile environments.

Through his detailed study of the unfolding of the LGBTQI+ rights movement through the 20th and 21st centuries in Czechia, Pitoňák's work reveals the complexities and challenges in this struggle. Finally, Browne and Nash's work challenges feminist geographers and others working for LGBTQI+ rights to ‘reach across the aisle’ to engage in radical listening with hetero-activists challenging the dialogue-ending tendencies intensified by social media and cancel-culture.

Looking back, the period from when this project began to when it finished was one beset by many challenges. The project got underway more or less at the same time as the COVID-19 pandemic began.