Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Lee’s Highlights from #scbwiWinter22
The SCBWI Winter Conference is always inspiring - and 2022 delivered! Here are seven of my personal highlights: "The act of turning the page makes a book a machine." —Brian Selznick, Author/Illustrator “You will be rejected. Don’t doubt your story – or your dream…...
Spin Me Right Round – A Queer YA Time Travel Adventure, Where Luis, super out and Gay in 2020s, travels back in time to the closeted 1980s where he may just have broken up his parents’ relationship… before he gets the chance to be born.
Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his “progressive” school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would...
#scbwiWinter22 – I’ll Be Blogging the 2022 SCBWI Winter Conference and Hosting their LGBTQIA2+ Social
So we're still online, but this week is the 2022 SCBWI Winter Conference. I really love the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and their conferences are always a great and exciting mix of inspiration, craft, business, opportunity, and...
It Feels Good To Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity – A Picture Book I Wish Had Been Read To Me When I Was a Little Kid
The cover of "It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity" It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn, Illustrated by Noah Grigni Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere...
Author update: Meeting a deadline, A Sydney Taylor Picture Book Notable, Speaking to SCBWI San Diego on Feb 5, SCBWI Team Blogging the Winter 2022 Conference, and the Feb-June dates for Queer KidLit Creators!
Hello, community! I'm back from my blogging break and unbelievably, it's already February 2022! Some updates: Deadline met! I turned in the full draft of book 2 in the Queer History Project series, THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE just last week. I've learned so much...
2021 Wrap-Up and Top 5 Countdown!
Graphic showing, clockwise from top left: the cover of "Red and Green and Blue and White;" the cover of "No Way, They Were Gay?"; "Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill" on the Booky Call app; a screen shot from the under four minute Christmas advertisement/movie where Santa...
Look At Me – A Picture Book I Wish Had Been Read to Me When I Was a Little Kid
Cover of "Look At Me" Look At Me: A Celebration of Self, Playfulness, and Exploration by Audrey Beth Stein, Illustrated by Kristina Neudakhina What do YOU like to wear? Nail polish? Fancy suits? Pigtails? Monday underwear? Possibilities are endless in this vibrantly...
The National Coalition Against Censorship Puts Out a Coalition Statement Against the Attack on Books in Schools – I’m Proud to Have Signed It
Screenshot from the National Coalition Against Censorship's web page announcing the "NCAC Leads Coalition Statement On The Attack on Books In Schools" with an insert of names of individuals who signed including me - "Lee Wind, Author and Blogger" Here's the full text...
Adrian Matthias Stevens And Sean Snyder are a Two-Spirit Couple Changing Our World for the Better
screen shot of the In Magainze article on Adrian and Sean, "Changing Cultural Expectations Through Dance: Meet Two-Spirit Couple Adrian Matthias Stevens And Sean Snyder" The story of Adrian and Sean being the first Two-Spirit couple to do the sweetheart dance on the...
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