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Description: The stereotype of the Latin woman is always associated with the sexual issue. Among these women, the Brazilians seem to carry this stigma around the world even more, since the country is known for festivities such as Carnival, and rhythms such as samba and funk, that objectify the woman's body in general, and even culturally. As immigrants, intersected by others matrices of oppression than gender and race, for example, these women exclude themselves as diverse marks still remaining from the Eurocentric coloniality that makes them inferior and forget (Mignolo, 2003), which worsens when the country of migration was the colonizer. This study explores the representation of Latin migrant women in Europe from the “Brasileiras não se calam” project that emerges from Instagram in order to anonymously denounce harassment, discrimination and prejudice that women suffered in Portugal specifically because they carry the condition of being Brazilian companies. The project was formed by a group of five friends in the beginning of July and in less than a month it reached 15 thousand followers. Today, it already has more than 24 thousand and is not limited to complaints only in the Portuguese scope, offering classes, courses, legal and psychological support free of charge through a feminist activism that is fostered and started in cyberspace, offering a new political cycle innovative opportunities driven by the building of bonds between women all over the world, breaking binarisms between first and third world in an appeal to the articulation between borders (Timeto, 2019), configuring itself as a true power that, on the one hand, contributed to the “Increase in protests, given the access to the participation of previous silenced voices and, on the other hand, implies the existence of new structures of permanent interconnection between the network and the street” (Fernandez et al., 2019, p.5).