https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/virginia/ Recent content in Virginia on A Geek's Life Hugo en Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:05:07 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2018/04/24/napowrimo18-day24-an-elegy-for-the-feeble-minded/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:05:07 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2018/04/24/napowrimo18-day24-an-elegy-for-the-feeble-minded/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="https://archive.rustgeek.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/a1c45-24-feebleminded.jpg"><em>Image by M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, SUNY (<a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/04/23/604926914/emma-carrie-vivian-how-a-family-became-a-test-case-for-forced-sterilizations">via NPR&rsquo;s Hidden Brain Podcast)</a>, for the <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-4/">Day 24 prompt.</a> Inspired by Emma, Carrie and Vivian&rsquo;s stories.</em></p> <p>--- They branded them the feeble minded, when all they were were the wronged ones.</p> <p>Once a face begins to fade into the fog of otherness, doubt begins to assail the humanity of the other.</p> <p>We wished we spoke for you when they came - before your lives were stashed behind that cordon of red brick</p>