Author Lee Wind

Using Picture Books to Explore POWER and Understand Inequity as an Imbalance of Power – a Panel Presentation I’ll be part of this Sunday Mar 6, 2022 at the California Teachers Association’s 2022 Equity and Human Rights Conference

Using Picture Books to Explore POWER and Understand Inequity as an Imbalance of Power – a Panel Presentation I’ll be part of this Sunday Mar 6, 2022 at the California Teachers Association’s 2022 Equity and Human Rights Conference

by | Mar 2, 2022 |

As a new war lurches to disrupt and destroy lives, I find myself filled with sadness, and anger, and determination. Sadness, that after so many wars, so much violence, we human beings are still doing the same incredibly selfish shit, like invading a neighboring...

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Lee’s Highlights from #scbwiWinter22

Lee’s Highlights from #scbwiWinter22

by | Feb 14, 2022 |

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…...

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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!

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!

by | Feb 1, 2022 | , , ,

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...

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2021 Wrap-Up and Top 5 Countdown!

2021 Wrap-Up and Top 5 Countdown!

by | Dec 20, 2021 |

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...

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My New Book!

Cover of Lee Wind's "No Way, They Were Gay?" featuring Mahatma Gandhi, We Wha, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln with a swirling diversity pride rainbow
Cover of Lee Wind's "No Way, They Were Gay?" featuring Mahatma Gandhi, We Wha, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln with a swirling diversity pride rainbow

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