Trauma Foundation
decolonize, divest, defy
Explore our vision for Collective Liberation
Trauma Foundation is a slow-activism space by Parth Sharma that is rooted in abolitionist praxis. It is a world building exercise on Transformation, Freedom and Collective Liberation.
(We are currently building a few things, sign up to know more)
Parth Sharma
Parth is an abolitionist, anti-colonial scholar whose work is grounded in their intersectional lived experience as a queer, non-binary, disabled, mad person. A cultural worker, filmmaker, and multimedia artist, Parth has worked in journalism, clinical mental health and human rights. Today, you can find them disrupting global mental health, interrogating the mental health industrial complex, and actively imagining abolitionist futures.
Mad Media
Mad Media isn’t a project, it’s a takeover.
We hand the mic to young people with lived experience and let them burn through the silence with stories that refuse to be buried. In a world spiralling through polycrisis, where mainstream media worships a single “truth,” we publish the inconvenient, the uncomfortable, the raw.
These are not polite contributions, they are insurgent acts of resistance and reclamation. The very people once branded “mad” are now editors, writers, designers, and agitators creating media that provokes change.
Lived Experience Narratives for Systemic Equity
LENSE is research turned inside out.
We refuse the ivory-tower model that strips people of their own stories and sells them back as “data.” Instead, LENSE is a series of peer-led, anti-colonial projects where young people with lived experience are not subjects they are the narrators, the owners, the decision-makers.
In a world obsessed with squeezing mental health into narrow biomedical boxes, LENSE dares to ask what liberation and equity could look like when the people most affected hold the pen
Do you want to write for LENSE? Reach out to us with your pitch.
we are not free, until we are all free
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