6. Which detail from the text best supports the idea that people with disabilities lack representation and access?

Question

A) “There’s immense pressure to create a three-minute long, easily digestible version of your culture for some literary or poetic scenes.”
B) “The manifesto for the Deaf Poets Society, published in June, calls disability justice ‘the civil rights movement you’ve never heard of.’”
C) “Not all people who are deaf or have a chronic illness consider themselves disabled . . . the word ‘disabled’ can encompass a wide variety of experiences.”
D) “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.”

Answer 1

The detail that best supports the idea that people with disabilities lack representation and access is:

D) “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.”

This statement clearly highlights the lack of physical access and representation of people with disabilities in various spaces.