Santa CatarinaBrazilAcademicBlack womenSanta CatarinaResistanceBlack womenBordersThis chapter analyzes the role of Black women in the Pastoral do Negro in Joinville, Santa Catarina, emphasizing the connections among Afro-Catholicism, the Black movement, and political action. It seeks to identify narratives of resistance produced within this religious space, also understood as a locus of political formation, anti-racist struggle, and contestation over citizenship. The study engages with Global South epistemologies, the coloniality of gender, and Black feminisms, drawing on documentary research, field notes, archival consultation, and open-ended interviews. It argues that the Pastoral do Negro, in dialogue with the Ecclesial Base Communities, became a political space for social mobilization and the production of situated knowledge, foregrounding the political agency of Black women in struggles for rights in southern Brazil.