Community Building

So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

By: Caro De Robertis
Narrated by: Caro De Robertis
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

“Life stories that can break your heart and make you proud of all the trans people who have fought for better futures Read more

See No Stranger

A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

The Revolutionary Love Project

By: Valarie Kaur
Narrated by: Valarie Kaur
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

#1 LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE • An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love.

“In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray... Read more about See No Stranger

Emergent Strategy

Emergent Strategy Series

By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

“Perfect intro to those looking to start organizing and facilitating activist spaces! Read more

Together

The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

By: Vivek H. Murthy
Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

“Dramatic in both its scope and the frightening truths it reveals about loneliness and its effects, "Together" is a book that should be required reading for every teacher, community leader, healthcare practitioner, and mental health specialist. Dr. Murthy's introduction to the audiobook reveals that he did the research and writing well before the... Read more

The Serviceberry

An Economy of Gifts and Abundance

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

“Kimmerer is firmly one of those writers for me whose books I will always read, and I'm happy to say that The Serviceberry didn't disappoint. With her customary warmth and personal anecdotes, Kimmerer also muses on the need and real possibility to make close-knit communities and gift economies to pave a way through our capitalist hellscape. An... Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“Plenty to think about as we face the reality of the shortcomings of unfettered capitalism. Take a walk in the woods. Eat some local produce. Listen to some birdsong. And ponder what we want for our children and grandchildren. Read more

Hope for Cynics

The Surprising Science Of Human Goodness

By: Jamil Zaki
Narrated by: Jamil Zaki
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Cynicism is making us sick; Stanford psychologist Dr Jamil Zaki has the cure - a 'ray of light for dark days' (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

For thousands of years, people have argued about whether humanity is selfish or generous, cruel or kind. But recently, our answers have changed. In 1972, half of Americans agreed that... Read more about Hope for Cynics

Hope for Cynics

The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

By: Jamil Zaki
Narrated by: Jamil Zaki
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“For anyone feeling let down by the state of things and in need of a little reassurance about your fellow humans, this read is for you! Learn about hopeful skepticism and build the world you truly want to see. Read more

Embodied Activism

Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection--A Practical Guide for Transformative Social Change

By: Rae Johnson, PhD
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

A radically different approach to social and environmental justice work for fans of adrienne maree brown and Bessel van der Kolk

Instead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people's minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies--how we feel in them and relate to others through them--as the sites of... Read more about Embodied Activism

Viral Justice

How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin
Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time "A book as urgent as the moment that produced it."—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more about Viral Justice

Let This Radicalize You

Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.



Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the... Read more about Let This Radicalize You

This Is How We Talk

A Celebration of Disability and Connection

By: Jessica Slice & Caroline Cupp
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
Length: 22 minutes

From the creators of This Is How We Play is a new jubilant, inclusive audiobook that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each other.

We sign, write, clap! We tap, stim, scream! So many ways to talk and joke, play and learn and dream. This joyful read-aloud, with an empowering refrain, from disability rights activists Jessica Slice and... Read more about This Is How We Talk

Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

“A primer on disability justice, memoir, personal activism history, and love letter to disabled BIPOC femmes all at once. Read more

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more about We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

What We Owe Each Other

A New Social Contract

By: Minouche Shafik
Narrated by: Minouche Shafik
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

One of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century

The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, legal systems and material conditions, but also the organisation of family and community, our well-being, relationships and life... Read more about What We Owe Each Other

Deep Kindness

A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness

By: Houston Kraft
Narrated by: Houston Kraft
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Spread meaningful kindness in your everyday life with this essential guidebook to making the world a kinder, more accepting place.

Practicing kindness is an essential step in helping to repair a world that has grown to be more divisive, lonely, and anxious than ever. But with quotes like “Just be kind” or “Throw kindness around like confetti,”... Read more about Deep Kindness

On Belonging

Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation

By: Kim Samuel
Narrated by: Erica Sullivan
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

In an age of social isolation, what does it mean to belong?Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political stability. We are searching for deeper connection. We are longing to belong.On Belonging is an... Read more about On Belonging

Mutual Aid

Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

By: Dean Spade
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

“If you’re feeling hopeless and want some tangible ways to help, read this! Dean Spade lays out a brief orientation/how-to manual on mutual aid and community organising. There are SO many small ways to build solidarity, whoever you are, beginning with your community. From providing rides to doctor's appointments/abortions/immigration appts.... Read more

Reclaiming Your Community

You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

By: Majora Carter
Narrated by: Majora Carter
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status... Read more about Reclaiming Your Community

Reclaiming Your Community

You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

By: Majora Carter
Narrated by: Majora Carter
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Majora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation.

"My musical, In the Heights, explores issues of community, gentrification, identity and home, and the question: Are happy endings only ones that involve... Read more about Reclaiming Your Community