Lived Experience Narratives for Systemic Equity (LENSE)

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.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them― Assata Shakur

Do you wish to write for LENSE?

Send us your pitch and develop the piece with us. At Trauma Foundation we centre difficult conversations and invite people to write/ design/create art that causes discomfort. Discomfort that invites change with it.

Send us your pitch to the email address: parth@traumafoundation.in

Include your tentative title, mode of delivery (art, write-up, audio/video production) and a 250 word description of your core argument and treatment. Ensure you include how you best represent this topic.