Hannah Gadsby on culture wars, pot-stirring and Picasso: ‘I created that circus. I don’t need to watch it’

Hannah Gadsby: ‘Moral panics exist in a time of great uncertainty.’ Their Netflix special, Gender Agenda, starts on 5 March. Photograph: Mia Mala McDonald

Hannah Gadsby would like to set one thing straight: nearly six years after the viral success of Nanette, they’re still getting their head around how that breakthrough moment reshaped their world.

“I feel fine, I’m OK, but I would like to go on record as saying, ‘I don’t know exactly what I’m doing or why,’” the 46-year-old deadpans. “The world I am in now is simply not the same as the world that I’ve worked slowly and laboriously for over 40 years to understand. And now I’m just a fucking babe in the woods again.”