Look out for the beautiful Harvey Milk-Alan Turing story — not yet published!
[Thinking especially today about the migrants being tortured in our own US concentration camps, which also includes LGBTQ migrants. Please donate to RAICES if you can in Alan's memory. .Did you know Alan himself sponsored a Jewish refugee from Austria?] Got to be frank here. I didn't see the Alan Turing biopic. I just couldn't. …
The future of our society and our planet lies in recognizing Neurodiversity. Different brains are organized in different ways and are skilled at different tasks. People with so-called Bipolar Disorder have different brains. People with so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have different brains and people who are Autistic have different brains. Having a Neurodiverse mind …
There is no denying it. Alan Mathison Turing, one of the most magnificent beings to grace this planet, was treated most shabbily and we cannot even begin to comprehend the repercussions of his loss. But that does not mean that he wanted to be remembered as a tragic figure. Yet time and time again on …
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(Photo by Phil Parker) Hand crafts are an excellent way to soothe the nerves and get into a meditative state. Alan Turing, like many wonderful people, could get rather anxious at times. Knitting was thus an excellent hobby for him. It also was a great tie-in with the knitting sheep/White Queen of ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING …
Alan Turing was a man of numerous talents. He could break unbreakable codes, invent artificial intelligence, make huge contributions to morphogenesis, run marathons at an Olympic level, knit and bake. Now Harvey Milk (Alan's lover in my queer speculative romance ) was quite the gourmet chef and an excellent host to boot, but he was …
