Audiobooks to Start a DEI Book Club at Work
A great way to kick-start intentional conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace can be through a book club! Some tips on how to start a DEI Book Club at your workplace can be found here.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Unabridged Selections
By Alice Wong
Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong
Length: 8 hours 1 minutes
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more »
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders
A Memoir of Love and Resistance
By Linda Sarsour
Narrated by: Linda Sarsour
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women’s March, shares an “unforgettable memoir” (Booklist) about how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country.
On a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour... Read more »
Allies and Advocates
Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture
By Amber Cabral
Narrated by: Amber Cabral
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Learn to create an inclusive environment with this actionable and insightful resource
Allies and Advocates: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture delivers a powerful and useful message about inclusion and diversity in everyday life. Author Amber Cabral, a celebrated inclusion strategist, speaker, and writer, shows listeners how to move... Read more »
Tomorrow Will Be Different
Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By Sarah McBride
Narrated by: Sarah McBride
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
“A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history
“The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book.”—Vice President Kamala Harris
“If you’re living your... Read more »
Me and White Supremacy
Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
By Layla F. Saad
Narrated by: Layla F. Saad
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Me and White Supremacy
“Want to learn how to be a good ancestor? Need to address your privilege and feel uncomfortable about talking about racism? You need to read and work through Me and White Supremacy.”
Rachel, Avid Bookshop
This Chair Rocks
A Manifesto Against Ageism
By Ashton Applewhite
Narrated by: Ashton Applewhite
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.”
—Anne Lamott, New York Times...
The Death Gap
How Inequality Kills
By David A. Ansell
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans.
David Ansell has spent nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, and has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of... Read more »
White Tears/Brown Scars
How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By Ruby Hamad
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
White Tears/Brown Scars
“This book could not have come at a better time as a vital contribution to antiracist and intersectional feminist literature. Hamad is extremely thorough in her examination of white feminism and its long history of weaponization against BIPOC. This work is accessible to newcomers to these topics, and illuminating for those who have some background in these discussions. Hamad shows us how deep the betrayal of white feminism goes, into politics, the media, and our interpersonal relationships, so that we might call it out and stop it in its tracks.”
Nikki Siclare, Newtonville Books
Good Guys
How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace
By W. Brad Johnson & David G. Smith
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Women are at a disadvantage in the workplace, where they deal with unequal pay, sexual harassment, lack of credit for their contributions, and more. And while organizations are looking to address these issues, too many gender-inclusion initiatives focus exclusively on how women should respond, leaving men out of the equation. Such efforts... Read more »
The Stonewall Reader
By author
Narrated by: Various
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winner
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and... Read more »
Sitting Pretty
The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
By Rebekah Taussig
Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.
Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted...
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Postcolonial Love Poem
Poems
By Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hours 59 minutes
Postcolonial Love Poem
“Pulitzer Prize-winning Postcolonial Love Poem will make you want Natalie Diaz to write a love poem about you. Here, she writes sensual lesbian poems and warm platonic ones, poems about water and basketball and things lost in translation. Her elegant poetry begs to be studied—add this stunner from a Mexican Mojave poet to your shelf, and eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
Mary, Raven Book Store
Reclaiming Our Space
How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
By Feminista Jones
Narrated by: Melanie Taylor
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagement
In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism... Read more »
The Witches Are Coming
By Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
The Witches Are Coming
“The Witches Are Coming is a timely and engaging collection of essays (read by the author Lindy West in the audiobook version, which I highly recommend). With a great balance of rage, humor, optimism, and urgency, West addresses the state of American culture and how we can move forward, specifically with regard to how women are framed in the narrative that has been written throughout the past hundred years. But she also talks about race, climate change, getting her book Shrill made into a TV show, Adam Sandler, and a number of other topics. West's book is a rally cry for witches; it will make you feel like picking up a broom and flying off to a coven meeting.”
Lelia, One More Page
The Art of Gathering
How We Meet and Why It Matters
By Priya Parker
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond.
In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the... Read more »
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
How to Be an Antiracist
“Among the multi-faceted array of antiracist literature newly published in the last two years, Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be an Antiracist stands alone as a definitive source of history and socio-political critique, while offering a new paradigm of thought aimed at paving the way for correcting centuries of social injustice. Hearing this visionary and transformative work in Kendi’s own voice will no doubt bring it all straight into your heart, humanizing his ideas, and firmly setting you on your own path to doing the work of becoming an antiracist.”
Noelle, Oblong Books
If They Come for Us
Poems
By Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hours 22 minutes
If They Come for Us
“Raw, but not unpolished. Dripping with sadness and honey. Rage beyond anger, a lesson in history and violence. A comprehensible example of otherness in America for those who haven’t experienced it; for those who don’t know they’re perpetuating it. An honest portrayal of a life shaped by governments’ omissions, of the lies of the self and others, and of waking to the daylight, the promise held in sunshine, and in finding one’s own voice, own words, own way of telling one’s own story.”
BrocheAroe, River Dog Book Co.