Our title is borrowed from a famous line of Wiji Thukul’s poem Peringatan (translated as Warning), about the everyday lives of the working class and their struggles to be heard, resonating with our experiences in working with marginalised communities across Indonesia to decolonise climate knowledge production and disaster preparedness and challenge the diverse and embedded inequities exacerbating climate impacts and disaster injustice. As in Thukul’s words: ‘There is only one word: Fight!’ In this paper we critically reflect on our recent experiences in Indonesia working with local artists, communities, activists, and practitioners to better understand and address the gender–age–urban interface of climate change: how climate and disaster impacts and responses are exacerbated by gender and age inequalities, and how they intersect with wider systemic injustices, in urban settings. We frame our presentation around two different examples of our creative applied practice that have engaged and centred women’s lived experiences of climate change: Madihin, a Banjarese tradition of comedic musical storytelling and Trans Superhero Perubahan Iklim (Transgender Superheroes for Climate). We centre these two different forms of knowledge and voice to invite anthropologists and practitioners to think creatively about the languages we use, the creative methods and arts we draw on to engage communities in knowledge production and exchange processes, the collaborations we build, how we apply and disseminate anthropological knowledge, and push at institutional barriers and the boundaries of what practicing ‘inclusion’ can truly mean at each stage of our research processes. We explore how feminist, ethnographic, and arts-led methodologies can foreground knowledge, perspectives, and art forms that are traditionally excluded in climate and disasters knowledge production – long dominated by colonial and patriarchal hegemonies (and tyrannies) of science and ‘experts’; and unpack our un/learning in this imperfect ‘fight’ to decolonise our research process and build a mutual collaborative research practice.