Artspeak Radio with Julie Hume, Davoya Marshall, and Scarlett d. Jones

Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org

Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes local author Scarlett d. Jones, Julie Hume and Davoya Marshall producer/hosts of She Talk What.

DAVOYA MARSHALL & JULIE HUME-“She Talk Wha?” is a weekly “Chautauqua” airing at 3 PM on Saturdays on KKFI. The show focuses on local, state, national and global issues facing women in today’s political and cultural climate. We’ll discuss books, ideas, current legislation and executive actions, local and national activism and the different challenges women are dealing with in today’s society. Julie Bennett Hume is the executive producer and co-host along with Davoya Marshall, Christina Knott, Lupita Arreola, Gina Meyer, Zoe Allbright, Amber McWilliams and Jane Kloeckner.

DAVOYA MARSHALL is the current president of Strengthening Education Together(SET) , a 527 nonpartisan nonprofit political action committee focused on advancing educational equity and community advocacy. Davoya has been instrumental in creating a strong foundation for the organization. Davoya holds a Master’s in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor’s in Biology from Missouri Western State University. Her extensive experience, commitment to DEIB and dedication to both family and community have made her a requested leader and advocate for transformative change in both educational and civic spaces.
JULIE HUME is a local educator, musician and activist from Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Julie has taught German, History, Philosophy and Gifted Education for 35 plus years in local schools. She has been active in politics and civil rights causes for most of her life and has been involved in fundraising for several organizations. She is on the board of directors for the local music non-profit “Heartland Song Network”. She is a professional musician in the Kansas City area and has released 4 CD’s of original music. She was the producer and host of the KKFI program “River City Chautauqua” for 4 years and has recently been a co–founder of a local women’s political group called “Good Trouble Gals”. Julie is the executive producer of “Shetalkwha?” and is committed to working with this exceptional group of women on examining the issues facing women in today’s unpredictable political landscape.

SCARLETT D. JONES-Kansas City based author Scarlett d. Jones has self-published The Year of Sluttery: A Journey of Sex, Self, and Singlehood, a feminist, body-positive, age-positive, sex-positive memoir. After 34 years in two monogamous relationships, Jones escapes the Southern Baptist Church, the Vexed Hillbilly, and the Ozarks to begin an odyssey of purposeful joyful sluttery. Scarlett chose to see sluttery as a positive life choice rather than a patriarchal, judgmental slur. The true stories in the book took place between April 19, 2019 to April 19, 2020 in Kansas City. Small details were changed to hide the identities of the men she dated.
She learns how to be single by navigating the new waters of freedom versus ever-
threatening loneliness exposing the joys and fears of all of it. The holidays include
Thanksgiving where her father tells her not to be so picky or she’d be a gray-haired,
saggy boobed, cat lady someday (like that’s a bad thing?), and NYE where she is alone
and sick. Her journey of self includes the realizations that she wanted to be Mary Tyler Moore since watching it in elementary school from the beef cattle farm she grew up on, that she had willingly given away her agency throughout her life, and a renewed commitment to follow her gut.
Fun facts:
The book is a love letter to Kansas City with a map of local bars and restaurants where
the dates took place.
Two books she read during the year of sluttery were important to her journey of self:
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Pussy: A
Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer.

Scarlett d. Jones is a Kansas City storyteller, writer, and general rapscallion. She is the
author of The Year of Sluttery: A Journey of Sex, Self, and Singlehood, a memoir of her
first year of being single at the age of 54.
Jones created a one-woman show from some of her sluttery stories, winning a Best of
Fringe award in Kansas City in 2022. She has performed the show 15 times, Denver
Fringe, and Seattle, and three runs in Kansas City.
She is the founder of the successful Kansas City-based open mic R.A.W. Adult
Storytelling now in its fourth year. R.A.W. has created a vibrant community of diverse
storytellers giving stage for stories without censorship.
A retired high school English teacher, Jones has presented for state and national
conferences, and even won Teacher of the Year lo these many years ago. She is a
member of the National Writing Project.
The Back of the Book
Reading Scarlett’s stories are like hanging out with that single best friend who shares all
the dirty details you wanna know: the travesty of her last date, the juiciness of a luscious
booty call, the confusion of trying to figure out what the fuck his last Tinder message
means. Becoming single at the age of 54 having only had two relationships, a 28-year-
marriage and a six-year love affair where he “forgot” to propose, this former Southern
Baptist Sunday School teacher decides purposefully to become a proud slut.
As she navigates the treacherous waters of online dating, she shares her newly acquired
knowledge that coochie videos might be shared in a local bar, lost condom searches are excruciating, and pierced penises are fun but their owners can be complete dicks.
“Militantly authentic” according to one squeeze, she shares her fears of being squishy in
the middle, her sometimes loneliness with nary even a pet for company, and her
frustration in the entire dating process.
“Wholesome sauciness!” – Guy at Denver Fringe
Anyone who has gone through a divorce late in life and has struggled to navigate the modern dating scene will relate to this show. The roundup of the Kansas City men will make viewers laugh but seeing Scarlett discover her brand of feminism is what the
audience will remember. Well, that and Prince A. –Fringe Reviewer Karen Staehling
Social Media
https://linktr.ee/sluttery
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scarlettdjones
Website https://www.scarlettdjones.com
Book Reviews:
Baltimore Bartender: “That was a very cute story and very accurate in your recollection.
I don’t know about my biceps though.”
Punk Rocker: “I’m loving it! 5 stars! I’m reading it and thinking, ‘She’s still teaching me
things!’”
Show Reviews:
Reviewed By Karen Staehling, Fringe Reviewer
Other reviews
The Pitch article about the 2023 show
The Year of Sluttery remounts at the West Bottoms Black Box Theater

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