Honoring their legacy and telling their story
The worst has happened. All of our most dreaded nightmares have come to pass. The unspeakable has been elected president. The rights and lives of millions are now at stake. What are we to do? Obviously, Harvey Milk and Alan Turing would not want us to give up. Here are some ideas: ONE: PROCESS Spend …
Harvey Milk left us on November 27, 1978. To think of all that could have happened had he and Alan Turing, who died on June 7, 1954 lived out a full lifespan, providing hope and technology to make our world a better place. My queer, speculative, novel, FOR THE LOVE OF ALAN TURING which has not …
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Both Harvey Milk and Alan Turing have deep roots with the Navy.
Both Alan Turing and Harvey Milk were music lovers. Alan enjoyed singing out-of-season hymns, loved British Pantomines, which are full of silly songs, and even took up the violin. Even as he had the police over at his residence, he entertained them with an Irish Classic, "Cockles and Mussels." There is a statue in Dublin …
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What If: A Speculative Foray Into Alternate History Previously published June 14, 2023 by Naomi Jacobs on the Speculative Fiction Writers Association Blog What if? What if the Neanderthals had become the dominant species of Hominids? If Napoleon had conquered America? If there had been no Industrial Revolution? If space aliens had come to Earth …
Previously published on August, 1, 2024 by Naomi Jacobs on the Speculative Fiction Writers Association Blog. FRANK ROBINSON AND HARVEY MILK For many years, I knew of Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) as the highly gifted speechwriter of gay rights visionary, Harvey Milk. In tapes recorded by Harvey before his death by assassination in 1978, he …
What Are Sensitivity Readers? Previously published on February 28, 2024 by Naomi Jacobs on the Speculative Fiction Writers Association Blog. Sensitivity Readers: What They Do and Why You Need Them Learn From My Mistakes It all began with my fascination with the Navajo Code Talkers. Their ability to rapidly send messages in a code they …
I am certain that Alan Turing would be insistent on the importance of trans youth and adults being fully supported in every way. This is not merely because Alan himself experienced body dysphoria through forced hormonal treatment which pained him deeply but because he held a strong belief in the necessaries of human authenticity--the freedom …
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