andemic, Maternity, and Inter- national Lawyers from the Global South: a Call for an Intersectional Approach

What are the impacts of virtualisation on mothers from the Global South who are international law scholars and practitioners? This article argues that it created both challenges and opportunities. It starts with a general overview of international legal academia and states that the Divisible College of International Law is a predominantly male global-north college. Next, it provides some data on the pandemic and how it has affected output in academia in unequal ways by using Brazil as a case study. On that basis, the paper finds that motherhood requires distinct attention as against other performative identities. As a remedy, the paper applies TWAIL feminisms as the approach and framework to revisit this debate and render mothers from the Global South visible, especially in the post-pandemic context. Synthesising these findings, the article finally calls for an intersectional approach, namely a TWAIL matricentric feminist approach to international law.