The news has been a lot lately. All these laws,Restricting Abortion access and taking away women’s control of their bodiesTax incentives for straight couples to have more and more children Banning Drag shows for kidsBlocking Gender affirming care for minors (and even...
Highest highs: Me and a room full of middle schoolers at a school visit in November 2022, organized by We Need Diverse Books and Writers and Artists Across the Country. Every student in the photo is holding their own copy of my nonfiction book for readers age 11 and...
Amidst the onslaught of introduced bills and laws around the U.S.A. targeting Trans kids and threatening their families with criminal prosecution for helping them get puberty blockers (to temporarily slow their bodies' puberty) or gender-affirming care, seeing this...
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...
This story is really infuriating and inspiring. Infuriating: the administrator turning OFF Bryce's microphone after Bryce said he came out as Queer his freshman year and taking his printed speech away. Inspiring: Bryce giving the speech he truly wanted to give anyway...
Sometimes we can forget the level of homophobia members of our LGBTQIA2+ community face in other countries. Alrieza's 'honour killing' in Iran was reported in Pink News by Patrick Kelleher and on Twitter by human rights lawyer Gissou Nia, who wrote: “RIP Alireza...
