The Lyra McMahon Social Justice & Political Solidarity Fund is dedicated to supporting initiatives advancing disability justice, mad liberation, trans liberation, sex worker justice, abolition of prisons and policing, regenerative craft and creative enterprise, and efforts to dismantle and reduce harm from systems of ableism, patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.
So far in 2026, the fund has redistributed $14,685 USD, equal to 294 hours of donated work. Reporting is available here.
Formalized in 2026, the fund seeks to redistribute between $10,000 and $25,000 of my annual income from my work as a multi-media artist as Lyra McMahon and as a public health writer and data analyst under my name Dielle Lundberg. This fund redistributes to frontline response, projects, organizations, causes, and organizing efforts that align with activism, disruption, harm reduction, and/or mutual aid in the fund’s focus areas. I prioritize initiatives led by directly impacted people.
More About the Fund:
Lyra McMahon is the pen/artist’s name that I — Dielle Lundberg — go by. As a trans and mad person with a physical disability, and with a personal theory of change focused on transforming health systems, I also recognize the value of out-of-the-system organizing, activism, and disruption. I want my work and art to materially support these efforts. Beyond the social impacts of research, storytelling, and art itself, financial redistribution is a primary way I can contribute to work toward systemic change. This fund builds formalizes efforts undertaken from 2017 to 2025.
While some people may prefer to keep redistribution private, I see public accountability as a motivating force. Just as I share how I vote and what I think about the world, I want people in my life to know how I use my time and money. In a world where corporations, organizations, and political actors use money and visibility to erase people with my identities, using my resources to fight back is both a personal act of resistance and a way to try and help protect the people that I care about.
The fund reflects my political values, which are always evolving, and I also want to recognize that no funding decisions are harm-free or perfect. This fund is also small and very much secondary to any movements it seeks to support.
I contextualized this fund in an essay series entitled “Cripping Clover: Essays on Lucid Tinn Brains, Demedicalization of Disability, and Irish-American and Celtic Heritage.”
Due to its limited size and my lack of administrative capacity, this fund will not accept external funding requests. This fund is a tool to support initiatives aligned with my political and artistic values (informed by my lived experiences as a disabled, trans, and mad person), and I will make decisions about which causes the fund supports. Funds will be distributed over multiple donations of varying sizes throughout the year. While many donations will be made unrestricted, some will be made in collaboration with groups or individuals to advance, create, or sustain specific initiatives. Since the money given is post-tax, it will not be limited to 501c3 causes.
This fund will support causes anywhere.
Supported initiatives will be documented annually in a spreadsheet on this page and archived at the end of the year in a report (scroll down), except for mutual aid and other causes that make sense to keep private. I am making this fund public to practice transparency and to move beyond traditional charity models of giving, by modeling a redistributive alternative. I also recognize that others may look to this fund as a source of ideas for their own redistribution efforts. Go to a list of suggested causes this fund has contributed $100 or more to.
At the current level of redistribution, donations do not exceed the standard tax deduction and thus do not reduce my individual tax liability. I believe in the importance of paying taxes to fund the health care system, disability-related services, and other essential government functions.
All writing, advocacy, and redistribution decisions associated with this social justice and political solidarity fund reflect my personal values and judgment. They are made in my personal capacity as an individual and should not be understood as representing the social or political views or positions of any institution, employer, funder, organization, project, or other entities or persons with whom I am affiliated or connected with.
Annual Reporting:
The causes supported so far in 2026 and the corresponding redistribution amounts are reported in this spreadsheet. Go to a list of suggested causes this fund has contributed $100 or more to this year.
In 2025, I redistributed to the Matilda Flow Inclusion Foundation via Make Fashion Clean (MFC), Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, International Rescue Committee, Translating Falasteen x The Sameer Project Campaign, the Polaris Project, Real Rent Duwamish, Disability Needs Foundation, Epicentre Ghana, and various mutual aid fundraisers for individuals. I did not begin reporting individual redistribution amounts until 2026 when I formalized this fund, but total redistribution for the year was approximately $10,000 USD.
This fund operated informally and redistributed more than $70,000 USD in total over this period. I did not formally track and report donations over this period.
