This article deals with the place of affects in ethnography, and more especially in writing. Inspired by Ashcraft’s inhabited criticism (2017), I trace my affective journeys through two field research projects I conducted in an organization fighting cancer. Through the storytelling of my journey as an ethnographer, a volunteer and a caregiver, I discover how cancer inhabitation me. The reflective and critical standpoint regarding my experience through these emotional minefields illustrates how cancer, here considered as an object of power, travels through multidirectional, hybrid structural networks. The inhabited criticism narratives presented in this paper suggest a model for research and writing where the researcher uses affects as the starting point for her reflection.