What does it mean to be in community together? How do we take care of one another? How do we create safe spaces? Are safe spaces even possible on campuses of higher education? In this article, we consider these questions in conversation with our specific university context—one in which we have worked to respond to hate groups that visit our campus, while balancing and navigating justice, safety, and an increasingly neoliberal administration. We reflect on the creation of an informal community-led resistance collective informed by interdisciplinary theories and social change praxis in response to hate groups on our mid-size state university. In our effort to build a coalition that would respond to hate groups on campus, create a safe space, and challenge harmful norms, we learned the complexity of not only repression and resistance, but also the contours of what justice work looks like within the academy. We understand this work of responding to hate as part of the larger goal of education—to cultivate agency, empowerment, and engagement with and knowledge of creating more just futures, and something opposed to repression, coercion, and control. It is our hope that our experiences and our continued reflection about this work will add to the growing body of knowledge and praxis when considering how best to advocate for resistance that is grounded in feminist and peace-oriented frameworks.