On the Doctor's recommendation...
Jan. 20th, 2005 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_makerIt was mentioned to me that Monday is the memorial of what the news likes to call the "Columbia Mutant Massacre". I'm learning that some people here were actually there, and from what I'm hearing, actually involved.
When it happened, I was in the third hospital in three days, getting passed around from trauma center to trauma center when my blood work came back as x-gene positive. Hospitals kept saying that they didn't have the necessary precautions to treat a mutant trauma victim.
They didn't let me have TV until a week or so after, and by that time the news stations wouldn't show the footage of what happened except in little three-second edited-for-prime-time sound bites. But there was the guy talking on Crossfire, I can't remember his name although I could probably look it up. The "Friends of Humanity" guy. Saying that this was a sign of things to come. Advocating camps, roundups, registration only being the beginning. Couching everything in terms of public safety.
I'd only been a mutant for a week as far as I knew, and I was already part of a public menace. Through physical therapy and all the subsequent visits to specialists and stuff, I kept getting looked as a mutant first, and as a patient second. So when they let me have a computer again, I got in touch with some people on the mutant rights websites and started learning as much as I could. By the way, there's a lot of good literature out there if anyone's interested.
What I'm saying is that I wasn't there at Columbia, and I can't pretend to empathize with what anyone here went through because of it - but outside of here in the rest of the world, it was kind of a watershed event for the mutant rights community. Most of the websites have a "Remember Columbia" banner of some sort, still.
I'm told there's a club for mutant rights that some of you belong to that does little fundraisers and benefits and stuff like that. If you're interested in getting a bit more active and political than a mutant bake sale, I think I could get on board with that.
I guess we've all got to find our causes.
When it happened, I was in the third hospital in three days, getting passed around from trauma center to trauma center when my blood work came back as x-gene positive. Hospitals kept saying that they didn't have the necessary precautions to treat a mutant trauma victim.
They didn't let me have TV until a week or so after, and by that time the news stations wouldn't show the footage of what happened except in little three-second edited-for-prime-time sound bites. But there was the guy talking on Crossfire, I can't remember his name although I could probably look it up. The "Friends of Humanity" guy. Saying that this was a sign of things to come. Advocating camps, roundups, registration only being the beginning. Couching everything in terms of public safety.
I'd only been a mutant for a week as far as I knew, and I was already part of a public menace. Through physical therapy and all the subsequent visits to specialists and stuff, I kept getting looked as a mutant first, and as a patient second. So when they let me have a computer again, I got in touch with some people on the mutant rights websites and started learning as much as I could. By the way, there's a lot of good literature out there if anyone's interested.
What I'm saying is that I wasn't there at Columbia, and I can't pretend to empathize with what anyone here went through because of it - but outside of here in the rest of the world, it was kind of a watershed event for the mutant rights community. Most of the websites have a "Remember Columbia" banner of some sort, still.
I'm told there's a club for mutant rights that some of you belong to that does little fundraisers and benefits and stuff like that. If you're interested in getting a bit more active and political than a mutant bake sale, I think I could get on board with that.
I guess we've all got to find our causes.
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Date: 2005-01-20 11:36 am (UTC)it's amazing what being in control of your powers can do to a relationship. and losing control.
but you know, if he couldn't handle this, then he wouldn't've been able to handle anythign else either.