This article aims at a brief analysis of poems written by contemporary Brazilian women writers whose work has been denouncing gender violence, by presenting (lesbian) desire as a way to contradict the silencing and the invisibility which is common to all the writers that will be studied. Excerpts of poems by Angélica Freitas, Adelaide Ivánova and other authors will be analysed, through the lenses of gender theories, in order to explore the creation of an alternative safe space for these women outside the pattern of the normative poetic voice. Themes such as lesbian desire and violence against women will be addressed, since they are intimately related to sexual orientation and identity, taking into consideration the “double segregation” of the women whose sexual behaviour and identification is not normative (the lesbian woman, the transexual woman).