ABSTRACT
This special issue of the Journal of International Women's Studies gathers its articles from presentations delivered at the 2022 8th World Conference on Women's Studies, which focused on themes of women's precarity, borderlands, decoloniality, and transformative change. The global pandemic of COVID-19 left humanity to grapple with volatile socio-economic and socio-political realities across borders. The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral and COVID-19 is no exception, as often the most marginalized groups from the Global North and South continue to suffer the brunt of the consequences in an increasingly disaggregated world. On one hand, lockdowns and quarantines promoted developments in virtual digital worlds, encouraging the global exchange of ideas. On the other hand, this digital world is an exclusive one that does not include the voices of impoverished people—especially women—who remain marginalized, vulnerable, and invisible. Feminist interventions in knowledge discourses have revealed other important forms of exclusion faced by women in terms of an assumed objectivity, which neglects embedded biases in gender studies. The challenge in feminist interventions comes in two layers. First, it is the construction of the Other regarding gender subjectivity across the North and South. And second, it is in terms of cultural subjectivity as these two regions emerge from different histories, cultures, and indigenous forms of knowledge. © 2023, Journal of International Women''s Studies. All Rights Reserved.