Lucy Webster

To make a broader point about "the left has no answer to young men not getting any", it strikes me as the same basic argument as "the left has no answer to small boats" or "the left has no answer to trans women dominating women's sports". Yeah, we have no answer because those problems are made up.

The new Chappell song makes me feel like a girl has just broken my heart but like, in a good way

I’ve stopped life-saving medication says man exhausted by fight for NHS care Tim Hull, who has a rare neurological condition, says his quality of life is

A disabled man has chosen to stop taking life-saving medication because it is too hard to get health and social care

This is the system we're introducing assisted suicide into
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Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry | Letters Letter: Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection

tell me again why I'm wrong when I say we still treat ableism as acceptable
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It often feels quite deliberate

everyone else is just exhausted too, right?

Homes Still Aren’t Designed for a Body Like Mine Why is it so hard for disabled people to find safe, accessible places to live?

“I’ve been disabled for 14 years,” Jessica Slice writes, “but have never lived somewhere safe where I can use all (or even most) of the rooms.” She reports on the indignities of seeking housing when exclusion is built into the architecture:

I have a speech impediment. Someone just called me in reply to an email I'd sent and, having failed to understand me, worriedly asked me if I was feeling alright. A successful start to the week

Crossing the road in Hanoi is an experience! Especially in a powerchair

I'm on holiday but also can't stop thinking about how, with cuts to Pip and assisted dying, and the rhetoric around them, it turns out that Labour hate disabled people just as much as the Tories do

On the plus side we have been here a few hours and I've already had banging dumplings

Hello from Hanoi where it turns out you can not take a powerchair into the Ho Chi Minh complex and must instead borrow a random wheelchair that is five sizes too big and also has broken wheels

I love travelling as a disabled person but you do have to be made of stronger stuff

A reel of mine on ig has ended up on the wrong side of the internet and I've woken up to quite a lot of comments calling me the r-word, presumably because that's just what they call disabled people they disagree with

Happy International Women's Day to me, I guess

Thanks lovely!

"Disability is a women's rights issue and it's bonkers feminism hasn't worked that out yet"

My plea for a more diverse women's movement ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, feat @ellenjones.bsky.social and @thecommonpress.bsky.social

Many MPs said they were only supporting bill at second reading on the provision that it'd be strengthened

I really hope they're paying attention to all the ways Leadbeater and the committee refused to do that

You have to vote on the actual bill, not the one you wish existed

Just doesn't seem like the *ahem* Labour Party should be punishing disabled and poor people for the damage to the economy caused by the Tories

I have an instinctive aversion to using the word 'eugenics' because it's such a loaded term

But that's what some assisted suicide proponents are arguing for and we have to call it what it is

This government's entire electoral strategy was to say that how the Tories had run the country hadn't worked (absolutely true). So why are they doing the same thing?

Put aside the blatant immorality for a moment. Haven't established, over and over again, that cutting government spending does not help growth? Bloody hell

sometimes when I haven't slept for a few nights I have no idea if the thing I am writing makes sense

Here are 10 essential feminist books to read this Women’s History Month From honest memoirs to deep dives into incel culture, white feminism and revolutionary female friendships.

So pleased to see my book, The View From Down Here, included in Stylist mag's 10 essential feminist books to read this Women’s History Month

Disabled women are often invisible in feminist spaces so this is brill to see

Check out the list and grab a copy!
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Vance really gives your-friends-boyfriend-who-belittles-them-in-public

I also think a lot of people who decried how the Johnson government talked about disabled people are unable to do the same with Leadbeater et al because they cannot conceive of their side being ableist

News flash: almost everyone is ableist, including (sometimes especially) the left

If you don't think these two things are related I don't know what to tell you

Yesterday was Disability Day of Mourning. In a few weeks we'll mark 5 years since the first lockdown

Thinking about all the disabled people who died because of government and societal callousness, and how many more we'll lose to the same if assisted dying is legalised

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

This works out at less than minimum wage which doesn't scream 'equality' to me tbh

I know people are trying their best but when an 'EDI start up' asks you to write TWENTY blog posts for £500 you have to wonder if they are part of the solution or the problem

DON'T ASK MARGINALISED PEOPLE TO DO WORK YOU CANT PAY FOR