Meera Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Yale University. As a decolonial feminist sociologist, her research and teaching explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, family, care, space and place, with a focus on South Korea and transnational feminist and queer movements. Her book project, The Rise of Heterosexual Refusal: Gender Politics and Family Change in South Korea, asks how political consciousness takes shape and what it means to refuse as a way of seeking social change. She examines how young South Korean women’s refusals of sex, dating, marriage, and childbearing are not only reshaping everyday gender relations but also reveal where heterosexuality stands within the broader terrain of contemporary gender politics and family change. Drawing on more than 130 in-depth life history interviews and ongoing fieldwork, she theorizes refusal not simply as withdrawal but as a collective praxis forged through ambivalence, exhaustion, critique, and reimagination.