work with young women in roaming situations often revolves around the concept of risk. If they present the street as a dangerous environment for young women, not least because of the risk of being subjected to one or more sexual assaults, they also help to present these young women as a criminal or even a criminal population. When studied using a qualitative methodology focused on the voice of these women, and analysed from a feminist perspective, the experience of young women in roaming situations informs us about how their attitudes and behaviours can be understood through a matrix of power relationships related to gender and age. This article presents an intersectional feminist analysis of the ‘treatment’ suffered by young street women through the various institutions they have lived together between the ages of 15 and 25, when they adopted a tense line with that associated with gender stereotypes of women. This analysis is based on participants’ stories such as glued as part of a participatory research and action carried out between spring 2013 and summer 2014 with seven young women in the street exit process from the Québec region. The aim of this study was to document the structural violence experienced by them, as well as their strategies to deal with them.