Because Anteaters Are Toothless
“Cripping Clover: Essays on Lucid Tinn Brains, Demedicalization of Disability, and Irish-American and Celtic Heritage” is an essay series I wrote about decolonizing my understanding of my ancestry, faith, mental health, and disabilities. This is part one of the series.
Essays in Part One:
Table of Contents and Reference List
Essay One. I Thought Being “Angry, White, and Woke” Was My Cultural Identity. It Turns Out, I Was Wrong.
Essay Two. Decolonizing and Depathologizing My Bipolar Disorder and ADHD as a “Lucid Tinn Brain”
Essay Three. Cripping the Peregrinatio: Reclaiming the Marathon After Disability through Irish Catholic and Celtic Tradition
Essay Four. Critiquing Neurodiversity as a Universalized Paradigm: Who Are We Divergent Against?
Essay Five. Mad and Stuck in Bad Relationships: Learning from the Celtic Anam Cara and Old Norsic Traditions
Essay Six. Practicing Reflexivity: Lessons from a Decade of Disability-Related Advocacy Collaboration in Ghana
Essay Seven. When Thinking Becomes a Prison: Moral OCD and a Mind Trapped in Colonial and Capitalistic Carcerality
Essay Eight. Why Mutual Aid Is Not Enough: Anarchism, Disability, and the Need to Advance Change Within Health Care Systems
Essay Nine. The Disenchantment of the Soul: How Technology and Addiction Has Stolen Our Attention Away from Lugh
Culmination Actions for Part One:
The McMahon-Lundberg Health Care Redistribution Fund
The Lyra McMahon Social Justice & Political Solidarity Fund
Mutual Aid Fund Collaboration with a Disability Advocacy Organization in Ghana
Trailing Thoughts for Part One:
My Political Views in 2026: Because Saying ‘Progressive’ Isn’t Specific Enough Anymore
Looking Back on a Decade and a Half: Reflections on My Political and Social Justice Awakening
How Long Covid and PTSD Shape My Daily Life and Work
Embracing the Ethics of Someone Who Is Trying: A Personal Reflection
