Welcome to Pan-Political — a podcast exploring what the next wave of the gender equality movement needs to consider.

In this opening episode, I explain the vision behind Pan-Political: a world where no one is judged or limited by their gender, where everyone has genuine equality of opportunity, and where we move beyond sexism, gendered violence, and unnecessary gendered patterns.

I contrast the current mainstream approaches to gender issues with a pan-political lens — one that cares deeply about the realities faced by all genders, rather than focusing primarily on one. I use an example that shows that our current understandable but reactionary approaches may actually be making things worse.

I also introduce the term “pan-political”, explain what it means, and share a little about my own ...