Lucy Webster
Ethnicity: White European
Pronouns: She/her
Location: London
About Lucy
Lucy Webster is an anti-ableism campaigner working across journalism, publishing, events, community organising and social media to create a more accessible and more inclusive world for disabled people. She covers disability issues for leading publications like the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the FT. Her journalism aims to demystify disability and challenge ableist assumptions, while fairly and accurately representing disabled people and their stories.
She has particular expertise on how disability intersects with other marginalised identities. Her first book, The View From Down Here, is a memoir of life lived at the intersection of ableism and sexism, and a rallying call for disabled women to be fully included in a new feminism.
Lucy is also a sought-after panellist and public speaker, and has delivered talks about ableism for organisations like the BBC, News UK, Frontier Economics and others. She is also a prominent advocate on social media, where she uses her platform both to educate and challenge.
Alongside her writing and campaigning work, Lucy is a community organiser. She is the co-founder of Every Body Queer, an events initiative providing spaces for disabled LGBTQ+ people to meet, share experiences and create change within the queer community and beyond.
Lucy is sat in her wheelchair in front of a brick wall. She is wearing an electric blue suit with a white vest as she smiles directly into the camera.
Recent Work
Author, The View From Down Here
