In continuation of the collective readings of Monique Wittig, this introduction to karate offers an opportunity to get moving and to put into practice the deconstruction of gender relations. Within the long history of connections between feminist movements and self-defense, it also serves as a nod to the practice of this martial art by many feminists of the 1970s — among them Monique Wittig, who began training in 1975 and who, through karate, met Sande Zeig, her teacher and later her partner, with whom she would write Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes the following year.