Video presented at Toronto meeting by Mayra Rivera Rivera: “What happens when academic research exposes some of the researcher’s deep personal experiences of pain? Here is an account of two graduate students who decided to engage this intimate dimension as an essential part of their Masters research project in Cultural Agency and Administration – one through his work as a dancer/poet, and the other through a personal practice where attention to bodily memories (or memories which find a place in the body) and writing to the forces at play in these memories create new spaces for thought, while opening possibilities for healing as a product of the research itself.”