This chapter focuses on the methodological and conceptual innovations we bring from feminist new materialist writing and how we ‘plug in’ these ideas to help us think about sport and sport organizations in productive ways. Through our diffractive methodology, we are committed to understanding ‘which differences matter, how they matter, and for whom’. Through our empirical focus on roller derby and AFL, and the women who play these sports, we demonstrate the ways in which different sport assemblages emerge and the affects of gender (in)equity. This chapter also provides detail of the data generated through the project, giving context to the methods used and the temporal, spatial and embodied entanglements of the process. Data for this project were collected from 2017 to 2024, a time of seemingly great progress for women in sport, yet a time in which a global pandemic halted all sport, and especially impacted women’s sport. The extended temporality of the project has allowed us the time and space to think, to read, to write and to engage in various ways, trying out ideas along the way.