The Body’s Tale of Mercy & Vengeance (BOTAMEVE) is a feminist fight club inspired by Crip Theory, where members examine the mercies and harms their bodies have endured—whether shaped by sexuality or disabled lived realities—and build a community network for individual and collective empowerment.

BOTAMEVE brings together diverse members: those grieving the loss of a partner, young individuals facing chronic autoimmune conditions, long-term caregivers, visually impaired individuals, and those recovering from toxic relationships or battling gender role prejudices...

Through 5–7 structured gatherings, members experience the process of expressing themselves and be heard, co-develop scripts of vengeance or gratitude in response to bodily injustices. Together, they create codes of conduct, experiment with engagement structures, and explore martial arts for self protection and boundary-setting. They also integrate rest as a form of resistance and develop a shared glossary of healing and manipulation strategies to navigate social and psychological harms. Over time, members are expected to initiate their own gatherings, supporting each other’s missions and shaping embodied methods for a decentralized knowledge network beyond institutional norms. Simultaneously, their experiences are archive in Offline.Wiki system.

 

BOTAMEVE operates as an “incompletion project,” living and evolving through participant agency to resist compulsory heteronormativity and able-bodied assumptions.