This is a situated research, where the one who speaks to you occupies the place of researcher-subject. This researcher-subject, at the same time, is a black woman from the periphery, living in Cucui and conducts this study. It is observed that the construction of narratives in formal learning spaces is a strategy for maintaining power, considering that those who have power over the discourse are capable of manipulating notions of reality and shaping history according to their convenience. In this scenario, black women have been portrayed in the most violent ways, despite being in the trenches of struggle developing life technologies and ancestral knowledge. Starting from the indispensability of inserting dissident narratives in academia and anthropology, this research proposes to work with the intellectuality of the participating interlocutors. The research, guided by black feminist theory and intersectionality, follows a qualitative approach, with an exploratory objective, of sampling by the snowball method, with the realization of semi-structured interviews and the production of a field diary that revealed a series of nuances, distinct and similar life experiences among the participants. The results showed that the black women interlocutors in this study have diverse knowledge about the reality in which they are inserted, knowledge that is intimately related to their identities, to their experiences in Cucui and to their coexistence with the community. It was found that, in the face of the oppression and violence caused by racism, sexism and poverty intrinsic in our society, black women have developed strategies of resistance that prove that their life experiences are not centered on oppression, but rather on the construction of intellectuality, through life projects that escape the desire for the achievement of full dignity. This longing is not limited to desire, but is pursued through struggles for rights.