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The Tenth Voice is the Kansas City area's only weekly broadcast created by and for LGBTQIA+ people in our community in the Greater Kansas City area and around the world online. Listeners can tune in each Saturday at 1:00 PM. Each week our team of hosts and producers present interviews, information, music, news and features especially important to Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transgender & Nonbinary people, Queer, Intersex, Asexual & Aromantic people and Allied collective communities. Since 1989, The Tenth Voice radio show has documented and informed the LGBTQIA+ Kansas City Community.
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Una Nowling lived a turbulent life where she tried to do her best, but failed despite all her efforts. Her epitaph is "Never have I been a blue calm sea / I have always been a storm."
Fiona Nowling is one of the producers of the Tenth Voice, which airs every Saturday. She also coproduces the program Every Woman, also airing on Saturday. In August 2018 they were elected to the KKFI Board of Directors for a 3-year term. In December 2019 she was elected to be President of the Board of Directors of KKFI, and in August 2020 they were reelected to the Board, and elected as Secretary of the Board of Directors of KKFI. Outside of KKFI, she runs a support group called SOFFA, works in the IT Field in Healthcare, and enjoys anime and reading in what remains of their spare time. Pronouns are she/they.
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The Tenth Voice is the Kansas City area’s only weekly broadcast created by and for LGBTQIA+ people in our community in the Greater Kansas City area and around the world online. Listeners can tune in each Saturday at 1:00 PM. Each week our team of hosts and producers present interviews, information, music, news and features especially important to Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Transgender & Nonbinary people, Queer, Intersex, Asexual & Aromantic people and Allied collective communities. Since 1989, The Tenth Voice radio show has documented and informed the LGBTQIA+ Kansas City Community.
The name of the show comes from the early Dr. Kinsey sex studies where he determined that 1 in 10 people are homosexual. That number has changed over time but just like the historic Stonewall name, we are keeping ours for the same reason.
First Saturdays’ host is Daddy Rae with Grey Matters
Second Saturdays’ hosts are Fiona & Una Nowling, for The Rainbow Kotatsu
Third Saturdays’ host is Michael Grayman-Parkhurst with Show People.
Fourth Saturdays’ (Trans Talk episode) hosts are Una & Fiona Nowling.
Fifth Saturdays’ host is Starla Carr.
The monthly Trans Talk segment of The Tenth Voice radio took home the Alliance for Community Media Foundation’s Hometown Media Awards’ ‘Best Of Underserved Voices – Community Radio’ 2021 award for their episode featuring an interview with Stephanie Byers, who made history twice last December by becoming Kansas’s first transgender person elected to the Kansas State Legislature as well as the first Indigenous trans person elected to any state legislature.
Upcoming Episodes
April 26, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 26, 2025 – Bi George
Welcome to this week's episode of The Tenth Voice, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the LGBTQIA community. This week on Bi George, join George Thorman as she talks with another amazing guest and gives us a round up of the LGBTQIA+ news for the month. All this and more on this week's episode of Bi George.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
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Read MoreApril 19, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • April 19, 2025 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time for Through the Rainbow Lens with Matthew Koehler!
Matthew is a lifelong thespian, a proud bisexual, and a believer in the value of artistic expression. Forged in the Omaha youth theatre scene, he went on to earn a BFA in Theatre with a concentration in acting from Kansas City's Avila University. Matthew has worked at many theaters around town, as a spotlight operator and stage manager. Growing up in the arts taught Matthew that the lessons of theatre are inherently bound to the skills it takes to cultivate a full and forthright life.
Join us this Saturday at 1pm. And keep up to date with all thing Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
ListenApril 5, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 5, 2025 – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives with Stedmond Ware
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as Stedmond Ware hosts "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives!"
Today Stedmond welcomes back his very first guest and a true KC icon Melinda Ryder and one of her dear friends and a legend in the making Christa Collins! Join us on Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives with Stedmond Ware, this week’s edition of The Tenth Voice, at 90.1 FM KKFI or streaming on kkfi.org this Saturday at 1:00pm!
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Read MoreMarch 29, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday March 29, 2025 – Bi George
Welcome to this week's episode of The Tenth Voice, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the LGBTQIA community. This week on Bi George, join George Thorman as she talks with another amazing guest and gives us a round up of the LGBTQIA+ news for the month.
This week’s guest is Crystal Tiehen, a trauma-informed breath-work facilitator. We’ll be discussing her life, how trauma affects us, and what breath-work can do for us in managing this. More about these topics can be found at Crystal’s website, crystalineyourjourney.com
All this and more on this week's episode of Bi George.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
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Read MoreMarch 22, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday March 22, 2025 – Bi George
Welcome to this week's episode of The Tenth Voice, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the LGBTQIA community. This week is on Bi George, join George Thorman as she talks with another amazing guest, Kim Carlson of AIDS Walk Kansas City, and gives us a round up of the LGBTQIA+ news for the month. All this and more on this week's episode of Bi George. You can find more details about AIDS Walk Kansas City at https://aidswalkkansascity.org/ You can also get free HIV test kits delivered discreetly in the mail by going to https://takemehome.org/
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
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Read MoreMarch 15, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • March 15, 2025 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time for Through the Rainbow Lens with Matthew Koehler! Today, Matthew sits down with one of his best friends Jennifer to discuss the critically acclaimed TV series The Morning Show and how it interweaves itself into the LGBTQIA+ community.
Join us this Saturday at 1pm. And keep up to date with all thing Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
Read MoreFebruary 22, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday February 22, 2025 – Bi George
Welcome to this week's episode of The Tenth Voice, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the LGBTQIA community. This week is on Bi George, join George Thorman as she talks with another amazing guest - returning guest, Dona Lackey, aka Dona the Magickal and Dona Period. She also gives us a round up of the LGBTQIA+ news for the month. All this and more on this week's episode of Bi George.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
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ListenFebruary 15, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • February 15, 2025 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time for Through the Rainbow Lens with Matthew Koehler! This month, Matthew sits down with Bree Patterson to discuss theatre, life, and what it’s like being a black, queer, content creator. Join us this Saturday at 1pm. And keep up to date with all thing Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
Read MoreFebruary 8, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday February 8, 2025 – The Rainbow Kotatsu
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we continue our series on anime (animation) and manga (illustrated novels) dealing with LGBTQIA+ themes. As always, we’re going to give you a wonderful list of resources for LGBTQIA+ anime and manga shows that are non-cringe, non-triggering to watch! So, be ready to squee your queer little heart out at all the fuzzy feelings and join us under the rainbow kotatsu today!
The discussion will be hosted by Fiona and Anna: Fiona is a nonbinary lesbian, and has presented in panel sessions on Yuri and LGBTQIA+ themes in Anime at AWA, Momocon & Otakon, as well as assisting with engineering for anime music video (AMV) sessions at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2021 & 2022, and at Momocon 2022 & 2023, two of the largest anime conventions in the United States. Anna is a regular guest of The Rainbow Kotatsu and as well as loving anime & manga, and being a gamer, she hosts a regular Transformers podcast!
Join us this Saturday at 1pm on 90.1FM, or streaming on kkfi.org! Keep up to date with all things Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday January 25, 2025 – Bi George
Welcome to this week's episode of The Tenth Voice, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the LGBTQIA community. This week is on Bi George, join George Thorman as she talks with another amazing guest, Rohn Dennis, and gives us a round up of the LGBTQIA+ news for the month. All this and more on this week's episode of Bi George.
Rohn Dennis has been an active member of the LGBTQ+ community since the early 1970's, with the origination of the Gay Peoples Union to the Gay Service Center.
Along with others he celebrated the first gathering of the recognition of the Stonewall Freedom Riots, now referred to as Gay Pride celebration, and lasting for a month of recognition. He was a founding volunteer of the Good Samaritan Project.
Rohn is also one of the founders of Kansas City’s very own Unicorn Theatre. He has spent his life working in the performing arts - acting, producing, writing, and directing. In his spiritual quests he has studied and twice served as a chaplain at Unity Temple on the Plaza. Currently Rohn is a member of 'Shots In The Night Radio Theatre' being presented every second Thursday of the month starting at 7pm right here on 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio!
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
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ListenJanuary 18, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • January 18, 2025 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time for Through the Rainbow Lens with Matthew Koehler!
Happy 2025! On our 3rd Season of Through the Rainbow Lens, Matthew sits down with Ashley and chats about how music is a tool of self expression, Ashley's most recent song entitled "It's OK" and the positive storm of LGBTQIA+ artists coming to the forefront of mainstream media. You can find Ashley on Spotify or social media by searching for Ashley Jones Rivers.
Join us this Saturday at 1pm. And keep up to date with all thing Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
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