Lee Wind Newsletter Issue #11 - April 16-30, 2012

[Lee Wind]

Hi, and welcome to the eleventh edition of my newsletter!

It's organized into four sections, 

1.  New on the "I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?" Blog

2.  Speaker Visit News

3.  Children's Literature, SCBWI and Publishing Updates

4.  Current Inspiration

I hope you find it useful and inspiring.

Thanks for reading!

Namaste,

Lee

p.s.  If you'd like to be in touch, please don't hit reply - just send me an email directly at iamle...@gmail.com  Thanks!

1.  New on the "I'm Here. I'm Queer.  What the Hell do I Read?" Blog:

Books:

Wandering Son, book 1 - Manga with 5th grade transgdender characters http://bit.ly/IBkhS7 

Wandering Son, book 2 - Manga with Trangender 6th graders http://bit.ly/Iq0mHH 

Culture & Politics:

A new word for "gay" - food for thought (& discussion) http://bit.ly/IBkRiV

Call Me Maybe - A Music Video by Carly Rae Jepsen That Will Make You Smile http://bit.ly/KyZpPD

Fantastic Video for Same-Love Marriage Equality http://bit.ly/KyYFtW 

Gay-Straight Alliance Info:

Gender 101, episode 26: Meet Emmi http://bit.ly/IBkmVU

Gender 101 episode 27: Emmi's Gender Non-Conforming Heros http://bit.ly/Iq08Ad #glbtq

Gay and Mormon: BYU's #ItGetsBetter Video http://bit.ly/Il522b 

The National Day of Silence http://bit.ly/Js4R4N

2.  Speaker Visit News:

This month I had the great experience of teaming up with Encompass (http://www.encompass.org/, a wonderful organization that uses theater to teach both teachers and teens about compassion, personal responsibility and appreciating differences) to do my teacher-training Empowering Diversity session for BTSA Orange County (Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment.)  One teacher attendee wrote "I really enjoyed the speaker at Encompass last night! He was interesting and engaging and I loved how he helped us come up with strategies!"

And to find out more about Encompass, here's my blog post on Innovations in Teaching Teachers how to Stop Bullying http://bit.ly/IRphD4

3.  Children's Literature, SCBWI and Publishing Updates 

Mining the wealth of info from #scbwi regions http://bit.ly/KyZOkZ

New ways for authors to be paid: Audible's $1 "Honorarium" per book download sold http://bit.ly/Iq0zKY 

US Justice Dept. sues Apple and 5 publishers over e-book pricing http://bit.ly/IBjTmK 

#SCBWI summer conference registration is open! bit.ly/IyEyrb

4.  Current Inspiration:

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." 

- Aristotle

Lee Wind, M.Ed.

Blogger, Author, Speaker

Founding Blogger of "I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I Read?"  (Voted Best GLBT Book Blog, BBAW 2009 and 2011) at http://www.leewind.org

Official Blogger for SCBWI: THE BLOG at http://scbwi.blogspot.com/ and Captain of SCBWI Team Blog

Co-Regional Advisor, SCBWI Los Angeles 

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