The chapter explores middling as an embodied, situated methodology for analysing friction in intersectional, trans, anti-racist, feminist politics and activism. It asks if middling together with intersectional, affect-theoretical and new materialist perspectives, and grounding in an ethics of unease, can foster alternative understandings of stalemated conflicts in social and environmental justice movements. Working from a linguistic definition of middle voice as a verbform which articulates reciprocicality (negative or positive), and resonates with a Spinozist affect-theoretical understanding of bodies affecting and being affected by each other, the chapter focuses on two frictional issues: transgender and race. Two cases are scrutinized. One addresses the upsurge of hostility between some radical feminist groups and parts of the trans movement; the other centres on a US media debate on the question whether or not the concepts, transgender and transracial, can be legitimately analogized. The cases are analysed from three perspectives: how mutually exclusive corpo-affectively invested onto-epistemologies produce friction; how an ethics of unease can perhaps lead to more in-depth, but still corpo-affectively situated, understandings of friction; and how a postconstructionist approach, which carefully addresses the intra-action of discourse and matter, can contribute to a rethinking of friction in combined intersectional and new materialist perspectives.