Watercolour portrait of Peter, a white man, with curly dark hair, beard, glasses and wearing a dark blue sweater.

Peter Torres Fremlin

Peter is the creator and editor of Disability Debrief and is based in Colchester, UK. See more about Peter and how that led him to create the Debrief.

The portrait of Peter is by Tan Kuan Aw.

Articles by Peter

Watercolour portrait of Peter, a white man, with curly dark hair, beard, glasses and wearing a dark blue sweater.

Peter Torres Fremlin

Peter is the author of Disability Debrief and is based in Colchester, UK.

Feeling pride, feeling poorly, feeling the prices

Plus: punk, stamp collecting, and much more
02 Aug 2022

A disability-rights view on community and mental health

Bhargavi Davar on Buddhism, connection, colonialism and earthworms
20 Jun 2022
A profile picture of brown-skinned woman almost smiling. Wearing a black top with a gold shawl she has short tousled hair.

Assistive technology: needed by one in three, and me

Plus: wheelchair cameos, children left behind in Ukraine, and curated news
07 Jun 2022

Reader Rebrief: classifying disability, Russia, and digital media

Plus: new support to the Debrief, and memories of Marcia Rioux
30 May 2022

"I'm not rebellious": Abner Manlapaz, lifelong rebel

Finding disability rights and fighting for them, plus the Philippines elections
10 May 2022

New Frontiers for Activism in AI and Tech

Plus where we are with covid, key pieces on Ukraine, remembering Marcia Rioux, and much more
19 Apr 2022

Responses to climate change leaving disabled people behind

Plus: what I missed on Ukraine, and more from readers.
04 Apr 2022
A watercolour image of a flood scene: on land, a house with steps, the woman in the water holding a wheelchair.

On the War in Ukraine

Comprehensive news update with the art and poetry we need to understand it
21 Mar 2022

From awareness to action, with Yazmine Laroche

Lessons-learned from working for an inclusive Canadian public service
09 Mar 2022

Love, War and Talkshops

All-you-can-eat guide to international disability news, February 2022
28 Feb 2022