This article proposes a reflection on anger and self-defense for women and dissident groups in situations of violence, confronting hatred and systemic violence. Based on the perspectives of Audre Lorde (2019), Jota Mombaça (2021), and Frantz Fanon (2022), in dialogue with the concepts of emotion and culture from Humberto Maturana and Gerda Verden-Zöller (2004), it is argued that anger differs from systemic hatred, as it consists of a driving force for change and anti-colonial struggle, which is collective. Emotion is seen as fundamental to the development of an active body capable of reinventing itself and resisting the patriarchal dynamics that rigidify corporeality. The text presents an autoethnography of the author as a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor in feminist self-defense workshops, demonstrating how the channeling of anger, through body combat and reconnection with the body from feminist perspectives, helps students build autonomy and break the logic of subjection, promoting the possibility of a collective and revolutionary "counter-work" (Mombaça, 2021), providing self-care/collective care. The objective is to rescue the combativeness and vital force of anger, paving the way for a new imaginary based on the principles of cooperation and trenches against violence.
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