campaign was conceived by sixteen Duke students as the final project for a class called "Women in the Public Sphere: History, Theory and Practice" taught by Dr. Rachel Seidman.
[1] In addition to designing and hanging the posters, the students also wrote an Op-Ed piece for The Chronicle, Duke's student-run newspaper, explaining the project and their motivations.
team reported that the Facebook page received over 4,200 likes within 36 hours of the project's launch, while the Tumblr account was viewed by almost 13,000 people in over 2,000 different cities.
"[6] The online outlets also experienced significant backlash in the comments made on the movement in general and individual submissions.
This group took the original campaign's ideas of creating posters and changed the words to "I don't need feminism..." and posted them.
The original Duke campaign created a start up guide to assist the efforts of other institutions to carry out a Who Needs Feminism?
Feminism in India, a digital feminist media platform, was founded by Japleen Pasricha, a research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University.
"[10] Pasricha organised a campaign at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology and Ambedkar University Delhi on April 15, 2014, which exceeded its goal of 100 photographs.