Thinking with Suzanne Ounei

This article is a critical reflection on Kanak feminist activist Suzanne Ounei, one of the co-founders of the Group of Exploited Kanak Women in Struggle in Kanaky/New Caledonia in the 1980s. Through a close reading of her essays, speeches, and interviews, it explores the revolu-tionary character of her praxis. Specifically, the article looks at Ounei’s contribution to making Kanak women into political subjects, her cri-tique of antiblackness in Oceania and by settlers of color in Kanaky/ New Caledonia, and her exploration of Kanak feminist resistance against French civilizational feminism. The article frames Ounei’s strug-gle as Black Indigenous feminist thinking and doing.