This chapter sets out the ethos of a study that transgresses traditional disciplinary borderlines that impact research and participation in ways that reproduce societal limitations and regulation and restrict the possibilities of new more expansive ways of knowing with. The narrative represents an invitation to redress and reject the habits that maintain distinctions in research, to learn from critical theory and art and artists/scholars, to encourage practices that restore affect and agency in liberal processes of self-presentation and becoming; embracing and witnessing the unknown and the unscripted to establish spaces where time is non-linear and responsive, for aesthetic and sensorial knowledges to materialise and persist. Engaging with the work of Antonio Gramsci, this is a process that facilitates a reorientation of dis/ability studies through an embodied practice of organic intellectualism; starting with a self-inventory and reflecting on its role in affirming and protecting creative vitality and freedom in research.