T&F India
Slow Activism
2025
Education as resistance
Building and sustaining a decolonial praxis. What does practicing abolition look like in 2025?
2024
Community: Whose voice and from Where?
Developing a series of projects as an ode to slow activism centred at intersectional lived experience.
2023
World Building
Understanding resistance, reclamation and the role of cross movement solidarity.
Slow Activism 1
Young Loud Proud
Class of 2024
Introducing T&F India
2024
Mad Media
At T&F India, 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 spiraling through polycrisis, where mainstream media worships a single “truth,” we publish the inconvenient, the uncomfortable, the raw.
These newsletters and magazines are not polite contributions, they are insurgent acts of reclamation. The very people once branded “mad” are now editors, writers, designers, and agitators, bending media back into their own hands.
And in just one year, our volunteers have already pushed out three fearless issues of Mad Media, smashing open conversations at the collision point of health, race, human rights, and youth activism.
Slow Activism 2
OWL 1
OWL 2
2024
Open Work-stream Library
OWLs at T&F India rip the locks off knowledge. In a world where education is hoarded behind paywalls and ivory towers, we refuse to accept that only the privileged get to learn.
For people from LMICs, oppressed castes, queer and trans communities, and first-generation learners, “access” has always meant exclusion.
OWLs flips that script. It’s an open-access, no-gatekeeping space where mental health professionals and students build capacity, swap tools, and share resources as acts of solidarity.
In October 2024, our very first round reached over 300 people across the world, proving that when you dismantle barriers, people show up hungry to learn and eager to give back.
Today, OWLs isn’t just an educational space, it’s a growing commons of mutual aid, fueled by those who were never supposed to have a seat at the table, but pulled up their own chair anyway.
Slow Activism 3
2024
Lived Experience Narratives for Systemic Equity
LENSE is research turned inside out.
At T&F India, 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, decolonial 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.
Volunteers set the pace, rejecting the toxic urgency of academia under capitalism, and carving out space for care, depth, and honesty. In just the first year,
LENSE has already launched two fearless projects on student suicides and fatphobia staking a claim for research as resistance, and for knowledge as collective power.
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Both of these projects worked across 2024 to be a learning initiative.
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 solidarity among young people.
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Core Values
T&F India is an Intersectional, Anti Oppressive, Anti Caste, Decolonial, Feminist and Queer, Trans Affirmative world building space.