"Deaf Poets Society: for Writers with Disabilities"

Question

by Corinne Segal
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which detail from the text best supports the idea that people with disabilities lack representation and access?
(1 point)
"Not all people who are deaf or have a chronic illness
• consider themselves disabled . . . the word 'disabled' can encompass a wide variety of experiences."
"There's immense pressure to create a three-minute
O long, easily digestible version of your culture for some literary or poetic scenes."
"The manifesto for the Deaf Poets Society, published
O 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."

Answer 1

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

"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 highlights the absence of individuals with disabilities in various spaces, implying that these spaces often do not accommodate or recognize their presence, which points to a lack of representation and access.