This think piece is a reflection of the conversations that transpired during the two-day event, ‘Spark Talk, Ignite Change!’ held in Miriam College last March 2019. The event was designed to create open spaces to encourage feminist conversations and reflection on the current political context. Fraught with sexism, impunity, and violence, national- and local-level politics have rendered women as subjects of misogynistic narratives, and as direct victims to these narratives’ cruelty and machismo.
