Core Values

Mission and Vision Statement. At T&F India, our mission is to centre and celebrate the lived experience of young people actively resisting systemic trauma. We envision to hold space for and build capacity of young people. 

Core Values. T&F India is an Intersectional, Anti Oppressive, Anti Caste, Decolonial, Feminist and Queer, Trans Affirmative Organisation.

MAD Media is a multimedia project at T&F India where young people with lived experience create newsletters and magazines. MAD Media reflects the stories of young people with lived experience as a reflection of the zeitgeist. In a polycrisis where there is no one truth, many stories never see the light of day. Through these newsletters and magazines people who have historically been stigmatised as mad, reclaim the space of media. 

In the first year itself at T&F India, the volunteers have created three issues of MAD Media at the intersection of health, race, human rights and youth activism.

OWLs are an open access educational space at T&F India, aimed at making education accessible to everyone. 

For many people who are from LMICs, oppressed castes, queer,trans community and are first generation learners, most educational resources are gatekept behind paywalls and are only accessible through institutional access. This format is exclusionary and goes against the basic tenets of the right to education. OWLs focus on building the capacity of mental health professionals and students through alternate learning avenues and by ethically sharing resources. 

The first round of OWLs reached over 300 people across the world in October 2024, and now remains a sustainable growing resource where people contribute resources as a form of mutual aid. 

LENSE is a series of peer led decolonial research projects that centre the voices of people with lived experience. 

Young people rarely get to own the narratives of their lived experiences through research. In a world fixated with reducing mental health to a biomedical framework, LENSE aims to look at ways towards collective liberation and systemic equity. Through decolonial narratives, young people narrate their experiences, own the data and become primary stakeholders in their own care. Volunteers pace these projects in the ways that they seem fit and actively reject the false urgency of academia under capitalism.

In the first year itself T&F India has two projects under LENSE focused on student suicides and fatphobia.