Women and men need to do something about feminism in 2015: not just say that they are feminist, nor just share a few articles about feminist issues, but take concrete actions to make the world a better place for women and girls.

As the police in America continue to wage war on people of color with impunity, we would be wise to follow the example of grassroots activists - largely women of color - who are questioning the efficacy and safety of relying solely on the criminal justice system on typically feminist issues like domestic and sexual violence. As Mariame Kaba of the Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls and Young Women told me in September: “I want people to ask themselves if they think the way to end domestic violence is to rely on violent institutions”. To ensure that all women have access to the kind of help they want and need – be it from domestic or state violence – we should prop up community solutions like restorative justice and online campaigns like #BlackLivesMatter to center the needs of the most marginalized.

The intersection of gun and intimate partner violence also needs to be at the forefront of feminists’ minds in 2015. Last month, a Philadelphia cop Stephen Rozniakowski was arrested for killing his ex-girlfriend, Valerie Morrow, who had a protective order against him. Jason Down of Oregon had protective orders filed against him by three different women – including his ex-girlfriend Cassie Wagner. After Wagner ended her abusive relationship with Down, she was shot and killed in her home. Wagner has been charged with her murder.

Most women who are murdered by their partners or exes are killed using guns. The rate of these killings is so high that, according the Violence Policy Center, women are more like to be killed using a gun than “all other means combined”. It’s not enough that men convicted of domestic violence aren’t allowed to have guns. Those who have restraining or protective orders against them should also have to surrender their weapons and be banned from buying guns.

It’s additionally time to take the attention and momentum for change around the issue of campus sexual assault and create a national standard for teaching young people, at the middle and high school level, about sexual violence, affirmative consent, and bystander intervention. Feminists, and young activists in particular, have done amazing work to hold universities accountable to their students and existing statute through lawsuits and Title IX mandates. But by the time students get to campus, if they attend at all, it’s often too late to change their deeply embedded notions about gender roles, sex and power. Sexual violence doesn’t begin at the campus gates, so it makes no sense that prevention and education so often starts there.

But violence and harassment against women isn’t just a problem in “real life.” We must hold companies like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook accountable for the abuse and harassment that happens on their platforms. GamerGate and a US supreme court case addressing online hate speech put to bed any questions about the ubiquity and awfulness of online harassment. Until social media platforms are forced to take hate speech seriously, we’ll be stuck with a point-and-click band-aid instead of real change. A start? Let’s see these companies put serious dollars behind tech solutions, and work with harassment experts on the best way to implement them.

These issues are hardly the only ones that require more focused action. Campus rape, domestic violence, street harassment, abortion restrictions, unequal pay and access to childcare are as important as they were last year, and, with Hillary Clinton probably running for President again, sexism in politics will likely rear its ugly head just as it did in 2008.

If you tweeted about feminism last year, this year consider sending an email to your elected representative in support of a policy about which you care. If you signed an online petition, think about searching the Internet for a local organization that needs volunteers. There’s plenty of work to be done to create a more just world for our sons and daughters – and, with just a little more energy, it doesn’t have to be a pipe dream.