Introduction to the Special Issue: Transnational Feminism-Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations: Toward A Liveable Planet: Select Papers from the 7th World Conference on Women’s Studies.

The article presents the discussion on 7th WCWS organizing during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic taking place online from the 20th to 22nd May 2021. Topics include comprehending the role of gender, race, class, sexuality, and the state in critiquing and resisting patriarchal structures and capitalist powers; and fundamentalist religious ideologies, increasingly authoritarian political systems, population growth, pollution, and the existential threat of climate crisis.