This chapter emerges from the body, memory, and lived experience of an Afro-Peruvian woman, academic, and activist navigating the intersections of race, gender, and class in Lima, Peru. Drawing on auto-ethnographic reflexivity as both methodology and political stance, this work traces the author’s personal journey—from childhood encounters with racial labeling within a multiethnic family, to the violence of racialization in school spaces, to the transformative process of re-signifying Blackness through participation in Afro-Peruvian social organizations. The chapter identifies three key dynamics generated through collective Afro-Peruvian organizing: meeting more Black people as one community, speaking openly about lived experiences with racism, and recognizing oneself in the shared experiences of others. Together, these dynamics disrupt the structural silencing and invisibility historically imposed on Afro-Peruvian women, enabling a shift from internalized otherness toward self-ascription and pride in Afro-Peruvian identity. Grounded in the theoretical contributions of Gayatri Spivak, Frantz Fanon, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, this piece challenges the naturalization of racism in Peruvian society—where diversity is often invoked as a mask for persistent racial hierarchies. Ultimately, this chapter is a testimonio: an assertion that the personal is political, that Black women’s voices matter, and that collective organizing remains a vital pedagogy of resistance and self-determination.