Lessons from Strangers

Lessons from Strangers is the creative outlet of Letters to Strangers, a youth-for-youth mental health nonprofit seeking to destigmatize mental illness and increase access to affordable, quality treatment.

Values

We abide by the following values when selecting which content gets published.

Intersectionality

We understand and recognize how different social and political contexts result in the systematic discrimination and exclusion of certain communities. We believe in the power of these voices of refusal, rejection and resistance.

Feminism

We believe that it is of utmost importance to keep challenging the patriarchy and the innumerable ways it has infiltrated everything, from our societies to our psyches.

Decolonialism

We wish to highlight the persistence of coloniality in the spaces we inhabit and keep proposing the different way we may take in dismantling it.

Meet the Editors

An extraordinary team for an extraordinary magazine.

Co - Editor

Sabahat Ali Wani

Sabahat is an artist, writer and researcher from Kashmir. Her focus areas include politics of war and conflict, gender and sexuality, feminism and conflict analysis. She is a mixed media storytelling artist, who through her art experiments aims to create a space for bold and critical statements, echoing with resistance.

Co - Editor

Dan Kanceljak

Dan is a recent graduate in politics and psychology who seeks to use the skills and knowledge at his disposal to keep challenging the systems around him and provide a pathway to collective healing. By engaging with academia, working in the nonprofit sector, writing and podcasting he hopes to poke the holes in our collective consciousness so that the light may finally enter.