Things We Saw Today: Alan Turing Memorial Decorated for Pride

This weekend doesn’t just mark Pride. It’s also the birthday of Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician who cracked the Enigma code, handing the Allies one of their greatest achievements of World War II, and upon whose logical leaps the basic foundations of modern computer science were laid. Turing also died at the age of 41, from what is commonly thought to be suicide, after being convicted of “indecency” (i.e., being gay) and sentenced to chemical castration. While his memorial certainly brings melancholy thoughts to mind, the way it was decorated this weekend takes us right back to hopeful ones. Happy Pride, everyone! (Boing Boing)

• Geena Davis has some thoughts on gender equality. (The Frisky)
• Disney’s got an interactive Brave comic that you might like to check out. (The Beat)

I’m not one to get excited over bags unless I’ve got a good look at all the organizational pockets and liners on the inside but OMG THIS TOTE IS SO CUTE. (Neatorama)

• Speaking of anniversaries, Title IX turned forty this weekend! (Jezebel)
• If you like visual novels and feminist deconstructions of fairy tales, you will probably like Cinders. Try out the demo! (Moa Cube)

Stephen Wildish shows us the secret link between Batwoman and wombats. (Geeks are Sexy)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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