Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Lee Wind Author Updates – Jun 2025
Hello community! I hope you and yours are well. Amidst the chaos of our world, some really nice things have also been happening. In the spirit of our joy is resistance, here are some highlights of my author journey to share: 1. THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE was named...
Like THAT Eleanor publishes Tuesday June 3, 2025!
Publishing takes time... but having a new book come out when it's finally all ready is so sweet! "Like THAT Eleanor" is beautifully illustrated by Kelly Mangan, and published so well by Maria Dismondy, Adam Blackman, and the team at Cardinal Rule Press. It's the...
Lee Wind (that’s me) Receives the 2025 BISG Industry Champion Award
This was a pretty amazing experience. Amid everything going on right now, I'm delighted to get to share about how we can collectively go on the offense against book banning with WE ARE STRONGER THAN CENSORSHIP! It's the program I co-created with Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson...
So BISG Announced the next winner of their “Industry Champion Award”… and it turns out it’s me!
This is very, very cool - especially because it is a giant shout out to WE ARE STRONGER THAN CENSORSHIP, the program I co-founded that goes on the offense against book banning. As I put it in BISG's article: "I'm so grateful to BISG for this recognition. As an author...
Hope through Art, and other updates – Feb 2025
Hello community! “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” is a famous poem by Emily Dickinson where hope “never stops.” For me, the feather metaphor telegraphs that hope is fragile, but the visual metaphor I prefer is the HOPE sculpture by Robert Indiana at the corner of...
Finding My Breath
I take this hit Like a steel knife scraping flint And I have erupted into flame. A fire of fury burns in my gut but I will not let it consume me. Instead, I will breathe fire Like dragons of legend. I will be a safe harbor. I will keep those who feel the bitter cold...
New Picture Book Launch – Love of the Half-Eaten Peach; and more updates
Hello community! 1)I hope you'll join me, Illustrator Jieting Chen, and the Highlights Foundation's Cat Galeano on Tuesday Sep 10 at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern for a book birthday celebration and discussion for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH! Just go to Instagram:...
Lee Wind July 2024 Update: Kickstarter Last Call, ALA Highlights, Your Launch Event Invite for THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE, and more!
It's summer, and I'm excited to share these author updates: 1) You can still join more than 150 other backers in the BRAVE Kickstarter to empower hundreds of LGBTQIA2+ and Allied teens with their own copy of my gay teen action adventure romance, A DIFFERENT KIND OF...
Together we can empower LGBTQIA2+ Teens with the BRAVE Kickstarter!
Happy Pride month! June is PACKED with updates, so we'll run them down here: #1 - With your help, we're going to empower 350 (or more) LGBTQIA2+ and Allied teens with their very own copy of A DIFFERENT KIND OF BRAVE. Backers can donate a paperback AND get themselves...
