
Lucy Webster
@lucy_webster_
Journalist | Disability advocate | @guardian @thetimes etc | @cbgbooks @JLASpeakers | THE VIEW FROM DOWN HERE, memoir of ableism and sexism, out now 👩🦼🏳️🌈
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Despite very much NOT being a celebrity (!), I’m proud to be one of the over 100 disabled people undersigning this letter to Keir Starmer as part of the #TakingThePIP campaign against cuts to disability services. Read the letter: takingthepip.co.uk TakingThePIP



Proud to add my name to this illustrious list of disabled people urging the government to stop #TakingThePIP and cancel disability benefit cuts Our voices must be heard TakingThePIP takingthepip.co.uk



There were powered moments in Ellie Simmonds' Should I Have Children? doc tonight. Viewers will learn a lot about he toughest decisions people make on disability and parenting But I wish it had looked more at the stigma and fear involved Me in The Guardian theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…


Audiences will learn a lot from Ellie Simmonds' doc, Should I Have Children? But it doesn't do enough to examine how society's prejudices influence disabled people's decision to have kids, and whether disabled babies are born at all Me for The Guardian theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

"‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts" thank you Disability News Service disabilitynewsservice.com/overwhelming-r…


"I've had people say to me, 'if my life was like yours I'd want to kill myself'" Tanni Grey-Thompson tells Nick Robinson political "rhetoric" causes "lots of problems" for disabled people Listen to #PoliticalThinking on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.in/4dI0ENh

