While we do not wish to pre-determine definitions of insurgent and resurgent, but instead encourage participants to approach these terms in their own ways, below are some working definitions as a way to signal our general approach.

• Is not limited to knowledge about or for social justice.

• Rebuts colonizing heteropatriarchal and racial capitalist ablest knowledge.

• Explicitly centers subjugated ways of knowing, non-western worldviews, and Indigenous worldviews.

• Orients knowledge-creation with and toward the communities affected by that knowledge, fostering responsibility and care to those communities and local ecologies.

• Promotes community-based action that targets the demise of colonial heteropatriarchal capitalist interference within our lives, communities, and wider ecologies.

Insurgent knowledge:

• Moves past the settler epistemological project and its valorization of terminal narratives of hermeneutic death for Indigenous peoples.

• Uplifts non-western and Indigenous knowledges taught and learned in mutual relationships with people, land, ecology, ancestors, spirits.

• Seeks to build the conditions that regenerate social, political, spiritual, economic, and governance systems within our communities and creating generations that have intelligence to create alternatives.

• Promotes joyful, free, loving relationships.