This workshop sought to offer a friendly and supportive discussion platform for researchers and practicioners with an interest in feminist new materialist theories and the work of Karen Barad in particular. We started with an informal lecture by Dr Magdalena Górska (Assistant Professor at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, NL), who discussed how she has used Karen Barad’s work in the context of her research on breathing. By analysing the material and discursive as well as the natural and cultural enactments of breath in black lung disease, phone sex work, and anxieties and panic attacks, Magda Górska’s monograph Breathing Matters: Feminist Intersectional Politics of Vulnerability proposes a nonuniversalizing and politicized understanding of embodiment and affect. Then, participants had the opportunity to ask questions and discuss their experiences working with new feminist materialist theories.