Abstract
Drawing on existing research on feminist mentoring in academia, this paper uses personal reflections on our mentoring relationships with one another to explore the challenges and possibilities of transnational feminist mentoring as a solidarity-building praxis. Through these reflections, we conclude that in order to develop a transnational feminist solidarity, we need more than empathy. Instead, transnational feminist relationship-building needs to start with respect and humility built on self-critique, recognition of changing intersectionalities, and consequential vulnerability. As mentors and mentees engage the processes of learning and unlearning, they also must be in solidarity to challenge gatekeepers, even as they become them.