ABSTRACT
This chapter provides alternative ways of thinking, writing and doing research in leisure and sport studies through the use of narrative, the privileging of affect and the centrality of the body. The short poem evokes the multiplicities of meaning, and the multiple questions and challenges, raised by roller derby and the women who play in the contemporary era. It evokes the processes of becoming, not only for the women who participate but also for the sport of roller derby and the organisation of individual leagues. By including these different textual renderings of derby experiences, it highlights the relational and mediatized formation of sport experience. Post-structural feminist approaches, drawing broadly from Foucault's genealogy, provide one way of approaching this issue. The notion of experience has become polarised as either positive or negative in some feminist debates between post-modernism/modernism. The chapter also presents feminist and methodological frameworks. Bodies act and react.
