In a piece that oscillates between theoretical essay and various bodily practices — contact improvisation, jiu-jitsu and queer affectivity — we witness the struggle of two queer bodies to protect and assert their identities at a historic moment marked by successive attempts at erasure. We witness a struggle that grows in strength through movements of amorphisation, redefining bodies and identities, demystifying hatred, and establishing new forms of affectivity. Surrounded by self-defence manuals, these two bodies intertwine in dance practices and in martial arts training focused on unarmed self-defence, presenting knowledge as the greatest shield for collective and community protection against hate speech and disinformation. In MANUAL DE DEFESA, an epistemological apposematism emerges from camouflage. — Júlio Cerdeira