This presentation is part of an ongoing postdoctoral research project aimed at analyzing the impacts of Brazilian policies on access to higher education over the past two decades in the outskirts of São Paulo. These territories concentrate the majority of the city's black and poor population, who historically have been excluded from university education. The access democratization policies promoted in the last 20 years have led students from the peripheries to university, not only altering the university environment but also the production of knowledge, which has begun to consider other experiences and viewpoints. The entrance of women residing in the outskirts into universities, both in undergraduate and graduate courses, has contributed to a specific transformation of the academic environment, as they bring their activism and life experiences marked by gender, race, sexuality, social class, and territory into the university. But it is not only academia that transforms. Through in-depth interviews and fieldwork with women residents and activists from the peripheries, I argue that as they circulate between the outskirts and academia, they have produced new subjectivities and political agendas. This process can be observed through the so-called peripheral feminism. This movement, inspired by black feminism, emerges as a way to differentiate from academic white feminism by highlighting the specific demands of women residing in the outskirts whose experiences are marked by poverty, racialization, gender and state violence, but also by constant social struggles that cross generations and, in the case of women, are deeply connected to labor and the language of care. There is thus an intense production of knowledge by these feminists that circulates, impacts, and transforms, not without tensions, both the academic world and activism in the peripheries.