This speech is included in the anthology of Professor Mutunga’s speeches, writings, and judgments, ‘Beacons of Judiciary Transformation’ co-edited by Prof. Sylvia Kang’ara, Duncan Okello and Kwamchetsi Makokha. His speech highlights the fact that feminism is about being but is not necessarily limited to one’s assigned sex. It is a summons to interrogate the deliberate and presumptuous framing of debates on feminism to exclude men even when they are integral to unraveling entrenched concepts of hegemonic masculinity.

His own feminism is rooted in the tense national political debates at the Senior Common Room at the University of Nairobi in the 1970s when the environment was growing increasingly.