About Disability Debrief
Disability Debrief is an engaging guide, for the disability community and disability curious. It sees world news through a disability lens.
A weekly newsletter combines lived experience, analysis, art and original reporting. And an online library curates resources from 145+ countries and regions.
What they say
“I can't work without it.” – Catherine Hyde Townsend, Ford Foundation
“A revolution in disability information.” – Mosharraf Hossain, Global Inclusion Consulting
“I love the Debrief: great information, great humour and always something to learn.” – Karen Andrae, Consultant
“I'm in awe of how comprehensive, thoughtful and readable Peter's newsletter is! I wish it were in my life sooner.” – Jen Bokoff, Disability Rights Fund
“Disability Debrief filled a gap in our sector. It pulls together everything that's going on and does so in an easily-digestible way.” – Penny Innes, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
“Disability Debrief provides a perspective from a world I'm re-learning to navigate, one that's incredibly well-researched and makes me hope for a better future.” — Jodi Ettenberg, Curious about Everything
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About Peter
As well as being a disabled person myself, I've spent many years advising folk on disability rights. I'm a freelancer working with international organizations, including United Nations agencies, to try to make the world a better place for disabled people.
Mostly I am writing from Colchester, England, which is also where I grew up. I'm back here after over 10 years studying, working, and language-learning in Brazil, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Egypt.
I love hearing from readers! Do be in touch, or find me on Twitter @desibility.
Debrief team
Together with Peter, regular contributors are:
- Áine Kelly-Costello, a disabled story-teller and advocate based in New Zealand, leads our work on the climate crisis. Áine is a regular editor of other Debrief work, too.
- Tan Kuan Aw, whose watercolours illustrate the Debrief. Kuan Aw is an artist and advocate on disability rights based in Penang, Malyasia. For more art, see his website.
As well as its contributors, the Debrief is made by its community. Guests come to interviews, readers send feedback, friends give advice, and your financial support let's us keep doing this.
Supporters
Disability Debrief is supported on a pay-as-you-can basis by the individuals and organisations that read it. Organisations providing support include:
- Center for Inclusive Policy, a non-profit advisory service on inclusive policies and programmes. Special thanks to CIP for support since 2020!
- Sightsavers, an international development organisation working on disability rights.
- Ford Foundation, a private foundation supporting human welfare.
- CBM Global, who work alongside people with disabilities in the world's poorest places.
- Light for the World, an international disability and development NGO aiming at an inclusive society.
The Debrief would not be possible without the support from these organizations and the many other readers who have supported it.
About this website
The Debrief newsletter is delivered by email and all back-issues are available on this website. See the library for those, and other ways you can explore the news.
We did do work to make the website more accessible. See the accessibility statement for a description of what I didn't manage to fix.
The site is hosted on Ghost, a platform that uses open-source publishing software. The database of news is stored in SQLite and I rolled some python scripts to interface with it.