They also won't come out to you because god forbid you had a job or kids or just, you know, a life

I spend a fortune at this wheelchair place and they always get the wrong parts in. Every single time. And it takes over an hour to get here

The unnecessary disability admin is getting boring now

I fret about being less productive than other writers and then I think about the fact I'm spending today getting my wheelchair serviced and I'm spending Thursday at the physio and I think maybe I'm doing ok

Not for nothing but if you are doing a trial shift to be a disabled person’s personal care assistant, may I recommend
- Not calling them brave
- Not sitting in their wheelchair uninvited
- Not pushing them in their wheelchair, also uninvited, while they are confidently self-propelling (???)

I've just read the introduction to my next book, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail, and now I sort of wish I had fewer weekend plans so I could devour it asap

(No offence to the friends I'm seeing)

From the language used to imply Trump is disabled to how some people talk about assisted dying to Labour's willingness to scapegoat disabled people, progressive politics has a disability problem
open.substack.com/pub/lucywebs...

Has anyone I know ever pitched the TLS and would you be up for answering some qs?

Me, smug: I have a talent agent now!

Also me: Does this mean I have... talent?

(Actually delighted to now be rep'd by the brilliant team at With Not For)

Queer disabled drag at the Southbank Centre? Yes yes yes

Midgitte Bardot was phenomenal. More unapologetically political and sexy disabled culture please

Made even better by unexpectedly sharing the front row with many wheelie friends

All of those things are completely, actively good to call him. What is not good is saying he must have dementia or a learning disability. Intellectual disability doesn't make you a fascist, being an arsehole does

The casual ableism on here from left wingers is wild, lads. From how everyone talks about Trump to the fact I've just seen someone make a joke about 'someone wiping your arse' as a put down. It's incessant and it is extremely telling

Once again a really crappy week has been turned around by the joy of my local queer book club. Everyone is so kind and the discussion is so wholesome. Queerness and community are such gifts

Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

It should have but not a single disabled person was surprised that it wasn't

This should always have been the end of it.

NIGEL FARAGE PROUD TO CALL DONALD TRUMP 'A FRIEND

"A whole civilization will die tonight."

specifically the moon is a beautiful lesbian foolishly in love with her straight best friend (the earth) who in turn keeps dating awful men

ok but the moon *is* gay

Well then maybe don't copy them by coming for UC, Pip and Motability

Who deserves a Blue Badge and how shall we decide?? A reality TV show in which a different “cripple” is voted off each week? A fight to the death in the public square? Dunking them under water to see who floats? Can’t wait to see how this develops!

One in five!

Disability hate crime is a huge issue in this country and the AA just encouraged hostility towards anyone with a blue badge, to absolutely no push back

If it makes you feel any better the "other questions people ask" if you google my name is, predictably, "what is Lucy Webster's disability?"

Also, bloody hell, it's Easter Monday. Can't you just have a day off from ableism?

Fwiw I use my blue badge all the time and the issue is not that too many people have them, it's that people without them park in the spaces with impunity

Blue badge permits now held by 1 in 15 adults in England Councils urged to crack down on misuse of parking permits that help people with disabilities and health conditions

When we're back to language about the "deserving" disabled people vs the undeserving ones, from a random group like the AA, I fear it betrays how widespread anti disability rhetoric has become

www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

Finding a home in my disabled body Despite accepting my disability, for years I saw myself as separate from my body. Then something changed

I wrote about how the narratives society placed on my disabled body made it feel like it wasn't mine, and how finding my queerness reconnected me to it

This is a really vulnerable piece. I hope you'll read it lucywebster.substack.com/p/finding-a-...

It's been a long time since a piece poured out into my notes app without any planning. This one did and I think it might be the best thing I've written for months

Finding a home in my disabled body Despite accepting my disability, for years I saw myself as separate from my body. Then something changed

Despite accepting my disability, for a long time I saw my body as separate from who I am. Then something changed

lucywebster.substack.com/p/finding-a-...

We do love to treat disabled people like children