Question

"Deaf PoetsSociety: for Writerswith Disabilities"
by Corinne Segal
Deaf Poets Society, a
new digital literarymagazine
, has a message for writers withdisabilities: We see you. We want you to behere. And this is your space.
Writer Sarah Katz, the magazine’s founder,grew up in North Potomac, Maryland, andattended a school with a program for studentswho were deaf or hard of hearing. “I had grownup around other deaf and hard of hearingpeople and took for granted that I had easyaccess to other people like me,” she said.
That wasn’t the case at the University ofMaryland, College Park, where Katz said shewas the “only deaf student I knew.” As a youngwriter, she began seeking out the disabilitycommunity and went on to earn an MFA inpoetry from American University.
Katz said members of the disability communityhave struggled to find its place in the literaryworld, with many writers asking who is affordedspace to write in a world that often rendersdisabled people invisible.
“There’s been a lot of controversy about howpeople with disabilities are represented in theliterary community, and whether publishers arelliilffdibldid
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which detail from the text best supports theidea that people with disabilities lackrepresentation and access?
(1 point)
“The manifesto for the Deaf Poets
Society, published in June, calls
disability justice ‘the civil rights
movement you’ve never heard of.’”
“A lot of the time we’re not even there.
We don’t show up . . . Not because
we’re not around—we definitely are.
It’s that a lot of physical spaces don’t
acknowledge us.”
“There’s immense pressure to create a
three-minute long, easily digestible
version of your culture for some
literary or poetic scenes.”
“Not all people who are deaf or have a
chronic illness consider themselves
disabled . . . the word ‘disabled’ can
encompass a wide variety of
experiences.”

Answer 1

“A lot of the time we’re not even there. We don’t show up . . . Not because we’re not around—we definitely are. It’s that a lot of physical spaces don’t acknowledge us.”