their positive visions, methodologies, collective ends, and situated concerns. Yet, what allows them to “hang together” as different but still feminist is the negative construction-- a refusal of an inheritance2. Following Indigenous feminist thinkers including Audra Simpson3, Eve Tuck4 and Sherene Razack5 refusal is a generative praxis of Indigenous survivance, the ongoing assertion of an authority beyond settler colonial logics. As such, refusal is a “no” to coercive settler colonial logics of recognition, inclusion, participation and a “yes” to community-generated sovereignties and Indigenous information management6.
Feminist data learns from and celebrates Indigenous refusal. It is in refusal that different feminisms open up and insist on radical/queer/alternate futures 7. Refusal is work, one that - at its best - can help different feminisms recognize interlocking struggles across domains, across contexts and cultures, and that enables us to work in solidarity to prop up and build resilience with one another - to generate mutually reinforcing refusals.