The central idea of this passage is: People with disabilities often have a difficult time telling their own stories. The passage discusses the lack of representation and control over narratives for individuals with disabilities, particularly in the literary community.
Deaf Poets Society: for Writers with Disabilities"
by Corinne Segal
'Someone is always trying to control our narrative'
The manifesto for the Deaf Poets Society, published in June, calls disability justice "the civil rights movement you've never heard of." Some of its accomplishments are little noticed by able-bodied people: entrance ramps, wide hallways, even closed captioning are all results of efforts to make daily life more accessible.
But when it comes to literature, people with disabilities are rarely represented, poetry editor Ava C. Cipri said. "It's very easy to be discouraged in the larger literary community when there's so little representation in terms of disabled individuals," she said.
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What is the central idea of this passage?
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People with disabilities often have a difficult time telling their own stories.
During the 1990s, people with disabilities began to organize.
☐ The term disabled has different meanings to different people.
The Deaf Poets society has been met with strong and effective opposition.
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