LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction audiobooks


Love in a F*cked-Up World
By: Dean Spade
Narrated by: Dean Spade
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections.
Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and... 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


A Two-Spirit Journey
By: Ma-Nee Chacaby
Narrated by: Marsha Knight
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.... Read more
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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


Gender Euphoria
By: Laura Kate Dale
Narrated by: Laura Kate Dale
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one's birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for... Read more
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All 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 their 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
From... 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
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Ace
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


So Many Stars
By: Caro De Robertis
Narrated by: Caro De Robertis
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed novelist, a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color—from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens—who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance.
So Many Stars knits together the... Read more


A Short History of Trans Misogyny
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
Narrated by: Charli Burrow
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"A beautifully written and argued book." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
There is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite... Read more


He/She/They
By: Schuyler Bailar
Narrated by: Schuyler Bailar
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From a trans rights activist and athlete, an urgent guide that changes the conversation about gender identity.
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 curriculum, bathrooms, bars, and nearly every walk of... Read more


The T in LGBT
By: Jamie Raines
Narrated by: Jamie Raines & Shaaba Lotun
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew I was a boy since the age of four, but realised whilst growing up that I was different. It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was... Read more


Transland
By: Mx. Sly
Narrated by: Sebastian Marziali
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as... Read more
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Enemy Feminisms
By: Sophie Lewis
Narrated by: Helen Phillips
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what... Read more
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Flamboyants
By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author and features music from Josephine Baker, Gladys Bentley, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters to enhance the listening experience.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance.
In Flamboyants,... Read more


Refusing Compulsory Sexuality
By: Sherronda J. Brown
Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.
Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.
The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is... 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


And the Category Is.
By: Ricky Tucker
Narrated by: Ricky Tucker
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction
An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection
A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture.
What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an... Read more


Paper Bullets
By: Jeffrey H. Jackson
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” —Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
"Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!” —Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot
A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction
Longlisted... Read more


A Place of Our Own
By: June Thomas
Narrated by: June Thomas
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spaces. For as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the... Read more
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Transgender History, second edition
By: Susan Stryker
Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans... Read more
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Sexed Up
By: Julia Serano
Narrated by: Julia Serano
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized–then offers a bold path for resistance Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive problem, as it’s... Read more
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Begin Transmission
By: Tilly Bridges
Narrated by: Tilly Bridges
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Trans woman and screenwriter Tilly Bridges takes you through the trans allegories of the Matrix franchise, with deep dives into The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Animatrix, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Matrix Resurrections, tracking one person’s transition journey—from Thomas Anderson, to Neo… to Trinity.Each movie’s allegory is deeply... Read more
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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