The current research responds to calls for decolonization of resistance and peace and conflict studies as well as the lack of research about women and their roles within grassroots nonviolent resistance and peacebuilding. This research, built on the ethnographic fieldwork in the villages of North Sumatra, argues that women and men play culturally embedded gendered roles within resistance. The women and men in my case study have developed their own methods of nonviolent resistance, which I define as protective and proactive nonviolent resistance. The methods they developed are culturally gendered, for example, farming as resistance is led by women, whereas discursive/dialogic resistance is employed more widely by men. Based on my data, I argue that women, despite their disproportionately dominant roles within grassroots nonviolent resistance, are still facing gender-based discrimination and violence, and the identity-based organizing does not provide enough space to address the question of gender justice within its current framing. This calls for a critical exploration of organizing and analysis of these gendered dynamics of resistance to critically assess these campaigns for local NGOs, so that they are more inclusive of women and women’s issues. My case study indicates that women often face gendered discrimination and violence that remain unaddressed by the local civil society organizations and their international partners due to the focus on other more potent issues. However, it is exactly within a process of transformative events, such as overt social conflicts, that lies an airy window of opportunity for a positive social change and re-restructuring of power-laden relationships, including gendered ones.