Lucy Webster
Nominee Profile
Location: London
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.
Lucy is one of the UK's leading disabled journalists, covering 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. Pieces she writes often constitute the only mainstream coverage for certain community issues.
Lucy’s writing focuses on areas as varied as the cultural representation of disability, government disability policy, and everyday ableism. 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 a sought-after panellist and public speaker. She is also a prominent advocate on social media, where she uses her platform both to educate and challenge. She is well-known for achieving real change in companies and organisations, and for using very personal stories to help nondisabled people become anti-ableist allies.
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. Every Body Queer has run a variety of sold out events and has been instrumental in empowering multiply marginalised people.
Across all her work, Lucy aims to provide a voice for those who so often go unheard.
Lucy is one of the UK's leading disabled journalists, covering 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. Pieces she writes often constitute the only mainstream coverage for certain community issues.
Lucy’s writing focuses on areas as varied as the cultural representation of disability, government disability policy, and everyday ableism. 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 a sought-after panellist and public speaker. She is also a prominent advocate on social media, where she uses her platform both to educate and challenge. She is well-known for achieving real change in companies and organisations, and for using very personal stories to help nondisabled people become anti-ableist allies.
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. Every Body Queer has run a variety of sold out events and has been instrumental in empowering multiply marginalised people.
Across all her work, Lucy aims to provide a voice for those who so often go unheard.