When I started the Red Elephant Foundation in 2013, six months after I turned 25, I was still wet behind the ears about gender equality. Growing up in Chennai, India I lived through a mix of bullying, racism and abuse as a child and a teen which I was sure would not have happened had the world been gender equal. Here are three things I’ve learned about gender equality since then. It’s not just about women and men When I was younger I ignorantly believed an oversimplified version of gender equality: that men and women were all that constituted gender. Slowly I’ve realised that gender and the fight for gender equality is not binary.

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