Through the Window: Lee Wind

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    🕮    In celebration of Pride Month and as part of the Through the Window diversity exchange, our guest today is Lee Wind, author of Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill. Lee blogs at I'm Here, I'm Queer, What the Hell Do I Read? He is also the official blogger for SCBWI. We opened the window wide to interview each other about Jewish kidlit and LGBTQIA2+ kidlit.

Through the Window is a diversity exchange created by the Association of Jewish Libraries to fight antisemitism and other forms of bias through education and allyship. Jewish organizations swap content with other marginalized communities to give both groups a look through the window at our common humanity.

Another Through the Window partnership recently celebrated Pride Month with posts swapped by the Jewish Women's Archive and Yali Books: A Window to South Asia. See their posts here:

• On Jewish Women's Archive: Interview with Author Ameya Narvankar, Ritu Weds Chandni
• On Yali Books: Building Inclusivity at My Jewish Day School

In this episode, we introduce a new podcast feature, Boosting Black Voices. I've already got interviews recorded for months to come, and most of my guests are white. I'll be asking those guests to add their suggestions for black-authored works, so that we can use our privilege constructively to boost black voices. Here are today's suggestions.

• Lee's suggestions: picture book The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson and middle grade nonfiction Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.
  
• Heidi's suggestion: My friend Jaime Legagneur is the founder of the Florida Podcast Network. Please visit her proudly black-owned company Flintstone Media and listen to the "Being Black" episode of her People of Florida podcast. You'll learn so much by checking out the many links and resources in her show notes.
  

LEARN MORE:

• Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill
• I'm Here, I'm Queer, What the Hell Do I Read?
• The Official SCBWI Blog
• Through the Window: A Diversity Exchange

CREDITS:

• Produced by: Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel  
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