- LGBTQ+ Studies (381)
Best Sellers
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Seriously...I'm Kidding
- Written by: Ellen DeGeneres
- Narrated by: Ellen DeGeneres
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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"I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share....
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I just love it!! I love Ellen! good for your ears
- By Amazon Customer on 30-11-18
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Sissy
- A Coming-of-Gender Story
- Written by: Jacob Tobia
- Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above....
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Peter 2.0
- The Human Cyborg
- Written by: Peter Scott-Morgan
- Narrated by: Peter Scott-Morgan, Rupert Farley
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world. All will be gone. But Peter will not give up. He vows that this will not be the end and instead seeks a completely new beginning....
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Figuring
- Written by: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries....
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Moab Is My Washpot
- Written by: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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The original best-selling autobiography by comedian, novelist and national treasure Stephen Fry....
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A truly Pleonastic book
- By Aditya on 13-08-19
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Come Out, Come Out
- Written by: Mo Welch
- Narrated by: Mo Welch
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Come Out, Come Out is a podcast about coming out of the closet, and it’s also a funny, joyful exploration of love, sex and the pursuit of happiness....
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Seriously...I'm Kidding
- Written by: Ellen DeGeneres
- Narrated by: Ellen DeGeneres
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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"I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share....
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I just love it!! I love Ellen! good for your ears
- By Amazon Customer on 30-11-18
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Sissy
- A Coming-of-Gender Story
- Written by: Jacob Tobia
- Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above....
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Peter 2.0
- The Human Cyborg
- Written by: Peter Scott-Morgan
- Narrated by: Peter Scott-Morgan, Rupert Farley
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world. All will be gone. But Peter will not give up. He vows that this will not be the end and instead seeks a completely new beginning....
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Figuring
- Written by: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries....
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Moab Is My Washpot
- Written by: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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The original best-selling autobiography by comedian, novelist and national treasure Stephen Fry....
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A truly Pleonastic book
- By Aditya on 13-08-19
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Come Out, Come Out
- Written by: Mo Welch
- Narrated by: Mo Welch
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Come Out, Come Out is a podcast about coming out of the closet, and it’s also a funny, joyful exploration of love, sex and the pursuit of happiness....
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More Fool Me
- Written by: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Following on from his hugely successful books, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles, comes the third chapter in Stephen Fry's life....
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The Fry Chronicles
- An Autobiography
- Written by: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man....
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Sense of Wonder
- My Life in Comic Fandom--The Whole Story
- Written by: Bill Schelly
- Narrated by: Derek Botten
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Award-winning writer Bill Schelly relates how comics and fandom saved his life in this engrossing story that begins in the burgeoning comic fandom movement of the 1960s and follows the twists and turns of a career that spanned 50 years....
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Dry
- A Memoir
- Written by: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants...
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A Dutiful Boy
- A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance
- Written by: Mohsin Zaidi
- Narrated by: Mohsin Zaidi
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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A coming-of-age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household....
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A Heartwarming read.
- By Dicky on 01-04-21
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So Now You Know
- Growing Up Gay in India
- Written by: Vivek Tejuja
- Narrated by: Vivek Madan
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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The year was 1991. Vivek was eight. He realized he was gay. Only he didn't: he just figured that he wanted to be different. And that he was in love - for want of a better word - with Deepak, his best friend....
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Excuse Me While I Slip into Someone More Comfortable
- Written by: Eric Poole
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1977, Eric Poole is a talented high school trumpet player with one working ear, the height-to-weight ratio of a hat rack, a series of annoyingly handsome bullies, and a mother irrationally devoted to Lemon Pledge. But who he wants to be is a star…ANY star....
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I'm Afraid of Men
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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With raw honesty, Vivek Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. I'm Afraid of Men is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour....
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Tomorrow Will Be Different
- Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
- Written by: Sarah McBride, Joe Biden - foreword
- Narrated by: Sarah McBride
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Before she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of 26, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out - not just to her family but to the students of American University, where she was serving as student body president....
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Conundrum
- Written by: Jan Morris
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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This remarkable memoir is the classic account of the transgender journey...
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The Favourite
- Written by: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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Once A read!
- By Prakash Dokras on 14-03-19
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Believe Me
- A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
- Written by: Eddie Izzard
- Narrated by: Eddie Izzard
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Runner. Political campaigner. Fashion icon. Human. There is no one quite like Eddie Izzard....
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Queer Intentions
- A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
- Written by: Amelia Abraham
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Queer Intentions provides the ultimate exploration of the joys and pains of being LGBTQ+ in the West at a time when queer culture has never been so mainstream....
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A Cup of Water Under My Bed
- A Memoir
- Written by: Daisy Hernandez
- Narrated by: Daisy Hernandez
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life....
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Amateur
- Written by: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrated by: Thomas Page McBee
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence....
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Great Demon Kings
- A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment
- Written by: John Giorno
- Narrated by: Max Bellmore
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City....
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You Do You
- Proud to Be Fabulous
- Written by: Tan France, Nikki Levy, Janine Brito,
- Narrated by: Tan France, Nikki Levy, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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Jump into Pride with Tan France (Queer Eye), Nikki Levy, and seven fabulous storytellers as they share true tales of exploring, embracing, and celebrating queer identity....
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Diary of a Drag Queen
- Written by: Tom Rasmussen
- Narrated by: Tom Rasmussen
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Northern, working-class and shagging men three times her age, Crystal writes candidly about her search for 'the one'; sleeping with an editor in an attempt to become a world famous journalist; getting hired and fired by a well-known fashion magazine....
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The Fixed Stars
- Written by: Molly Wizenberg
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it....
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Foucault in California
- [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
- Written by: Simeon Wade
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning, Dina Pearlman
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers....
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Gender Outlaw
- On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
- Written by: Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman
- Narrated by: Kate Bornstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Now, some 20-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work - one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier....
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Transition
- The Story of How I Became a Man
- Written by: Chaz Bono
- Narrated by: Chaz Bono
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a 40-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male....
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The Stonewall Reader
- Written by: New York Public Library, Edmund White
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White....
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Trans Like Me
- Written by: CN Lester
- Narrated by: CN Lester
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes listeners on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community....
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Gentleman Jack
- A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
- Written by: Angela Steidele
- Narrated by: Heather Peace
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack....
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When We Rise
- My Life in the Movement
- Written by: Cleve Jones
- Narrated by: Cleve Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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From longtime activist Cleve Jones, here is a sweeping, beautifully written memoir about a full and remarkable American life....
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Believe
- Written by: Nicola Adams MBE
- Narrated by: Emma Swan
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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At London 2012, Nicola Adams made history. The flyweight boxer - nicknamed the smiling assassin - became the first ever woman to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing....
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Abandon Me
- Memoirs
- Written by: Melissa Febos
- Narrated by: Melissa Febos
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection - with family, lovers, and oneself....
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Trans
- A Memoir
- Written by: Juliet Jacques
- Narrated by: Rebecca Root
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In July 2012, aged 30, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery and felt for the first time that her body matched the person she felt she had been since childhood....
New Releases
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I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?
- A Memoir
- Written by: Mortada Gzar, William Hutchins - translator
- Narrated by: Haaz Sleiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself. In his affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US.
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Skin
- Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
- Written by: Dorothy Allison
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through 23 impassioned essays that explore her identity - from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York - and her sexuality.
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
- Written by: Dorothy Allison
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
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Black Boy Out of Time
- A Memoir
- Written by: Hari Ziyad
- Narrated by: Desean Terry
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes listeners on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given....
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Soar, Adam, Soar
- Written by: Rick Prashaw
- Narrated by: John Dickhout
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Adam Prashaw's life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as "Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw" before coming to terms with being a transgender man. Adam captured hearts with his humor, compassion, and intensity. After a tragic accident cut his life short, he left a legacy of changed lives and a trove of social media posts documenting his life, relationships, transition, and struggles with epilepsy, all with remarkable transparency and directness.
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Peter 2.0
- The Human Cyborg
- Written by: Peter Scott-Morgan
- Narrated by: Peter Scott-Morgan, Rupert Farley
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter has motor neurone disease, a condition universally considered by doctors to be terminal. It will destroy his nerve cells, and he is told that within an average of two years, it will take his life, too. But, face to face with death, he decides there is another way. Using his background in science and technology, he navigates a new path, one that will enable him not just to survive but to thrive.
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I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?
- A Memoir
- Written by: Mortada Gzar, William Hutchins - translator
- Narrated by: Haaz Sleiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself. In his affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US.
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Skin
- Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature
- Written by: Dorothy Allison
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through 23 impassioned essays that explore her identity - from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York - and her sexuality.
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
- Written by: Dorothy Allison
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.
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Black Boy Out of Time
- A Memoir
- Written by: Hari Ziyad
- Narrated by: Desean Terry
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes listeners on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given....
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Soar, Adam, Soar
- Written by: Rick Prashaw
- Narrated by: John Dickhout
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Adam Prashaw's life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as "Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw" before coming to terms with being a transgender man. Adam captured hearts with his humor, compassion, and intensity. After a tragic accident cut his life short, he left a legacy of changed lives and a trove of social media posts documenting his life, relationships, transition, and struggles with epilepsy, all with remarkable transparency and directness.
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Peter 2.0
- The Human Cyborg
- Written by: Peter Scott-Morgan
- Narrated by: Peter Scott-Morgan, Rupert Farley
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter has motor neurone disease, a condition universally considered by doctors to be terminal. It will destroy his nerve cells, and he is told that within an average of two years, it will take his life, too. But, face to face with death, he decides there is another way. Using his background in science and technology, he navigates a new path, one that will enable him not just to survive but to thrive.