Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
Narrated by: Judith Butler
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them.
"A profoundly urgent intervention.” —Naomi Klein
"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.” —Claudia Rankine
From a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more
Care Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
View audiobookAce
By: Angela Chen
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more
Missing from the Village
By: Justin Ling
Narrated by: Justin Ling
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards
In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more
A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
Narrated by: Vikas Adams
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima... Read more
The Deviant's War
By: Eric Cervini
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine
A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book
From a young Harvard- and... Read more
The Queer Art of Failure
By: Jack Halberstam
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Halberstam... Read more
View audiobookAll Boys Aren't Blue
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.
A New York Times Bestseller!
Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories
... Read more
Better Living Through Birding
By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World
Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more
Gender Outlaw
By: Kate Bornstein
Narrated by: Kate Bornstein
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"I know I'm not a man . . . and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either . . . The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers listeners on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level,... Read more
View audiobookQueer Villains of Myth and Legend
By: Dan Jones
Narrated by: Dan Jones
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.
Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more
The Transgender Issue
By: Shon Faye
Narrated by: Shon Faye
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An incisive case for trans justice from a powerful new voice
In this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.
So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a "side... Read more
Sister Outsider
By: Audre Lorde
Narrated by: Robin Eller
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more
View audiobookWhy Are People Into That?
By: Tina Horn
Narrated by: Tina Horn
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From a #1 Apple podcast host, Lambda Literary fellow, and dominatrix comes a sex-positive, judgment-free cultural deep-dive into the world of kink.
When celebrated BDSM educator Tina Horn first launched Why Are People Into That?!, publications from Vice to Buzzfeed heralded it as one of the best sex podcasts around. Each episode centered... Read more
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend
By: Dan Jones
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.
Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles... Read more
He/She/They
By: Schuyler Bailar
Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity and how we talk about it.
Anti-transgender legislation is being introduced in state governments around the United States in record-breaking numbers. Trans people are under attack in sports, healthcare, school... Read more
Love and Rage
By: Lama Rod Owens
Narrated by: Lama Rod Owens
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?
White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death. In Love and... Read more
Moby Dyke
By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.
Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987,... Read more
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
By: Tony Keith, Jr.
Narrated by: Tony Keith, Jr.
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, George M. Johnson,... Read more
View audiobookDear Cisgender People
By: Kenny Ethan Jones
Narrated by: Kenny Ethan Jones
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans?
In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal memoir, Kenny Ethan Jones, trans activist and writer, offers an... Read more
Decime Julián
By: Julia Álvarez Dachdje
Narrated by: Giselle Halberthal
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
La autora combina sensibilidad con crudeza y echa luz sobre lo que pasa con las infancias transgénero y sus familias. Un libro imprescindible para madres y padres que quieren acompañar a sus hijos e hijas en ese camino que siempre llega al mejor final: la verdadera identidad.
"Ma, ¿sabías que se puede cambiar de género?" Esa fue la... Read more
Swole
By: Michael Andor Brodeur
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From a Washington Post critic and self-described meathead: a witty, incisive, poignant exploration of male body image, from the history of the gym to the politics of superheroes to the world of manfluencers
Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity--a concept in which many... Read more
Queering Contemplation
By: Cassidy Hall
Narrated by: Cassidy Hall
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The world of contemplative Christianity has yielded to the same voices for far too long, many of whom are from centuries before our time, with lives unlike our own, and often from experiences disconnected from marginalization, oppression, and what it feels like to be an outsider.
Cassidy Hall, an LGBTQIA+ Christian contemplative scholar and... Read more
Pretty
By: KB Brookins
Narrated by: KB Brookins
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.
Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for... Read more