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In recent years, the intersections between academia, arts, and activism have become more dynamic, as collaborations across these fields challenge traditional boundaries and hierarchies of knowledge production. Many individuals navigate multiple roles – as artistic researchers, ‘artivists’ or engaged scholars – integrating critical inquiry, creative expression, and political intervention. What tensions and possibilities emerge when academic discourse meets artistic practice and grassroots activism? What role does affect play – and how is it mobilized differently in these domains? How to reflect on one's own affective engagement when researching, making art or protesting? We want to discuss these questions with our three guests: Billy Holzberg, who is a researcher and lecturer in Social Justice at King’s College London and the author of “Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control”, Cesy Leonard, action artist and founder of the collective “Radikale Töchter” which fosters new forms of political participation, and Sinthujan Varatharajah, who is an essayist and political geographer, and the author of “Hierarchies of Solidarity” (with Moshtari Hilal).