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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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The Team
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.
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."
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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
June 10, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday June 10, 2023 – 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 Una: Fiona is a nonbinary lesbian, and has presented in four panel sessions on Yuri and LGBTQIA+ themes in Anime, as well as assisting with engineering for anime music video (AMV) sessions at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2021 & 2022, and at Momocon 2022, two of the largest anime conventions in the United States. Una has also studied the subject and co-presented on the two panels on Yuri and LGBTQIA+ themes in Anime at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2021 with Fiona, and Una is herself an intersex and transgender woman.
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 MoreJune 17, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • June 17, 2023 – Show People
It is the third Saturday of the month and time again for Show People on The Tenth Voice. Join host Michael Grayman-Parkhurst as he welcomes another show person to the program.
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 MoreMay 20, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • May 20, 2023 – Show People
It is the third Saturday of the month and time again for Show People on The Tenth Voice. Join host Michael Grayman-Parkhurst as he welcomes another show person to the program.
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 MoreMay 20, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • May 20, 2023 – Show People
It is the third Saturday of the month and time again for Show People on The Tenth Voice. Join host Michael Grayman-Parkhurst as he welcomes another show person to the program. This month, he is joined by Gary Green, who got his start in music in Edgerton, Kansas, and despite many travels, is still in the Kansas City area.
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 MoreMay 13, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday May 13, 2023 – 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!
This week, we’re jumping genres - from anime and manga, we’re jumping to gaming, with a heavy focus on jRPG games, but covering the whole gaming spectrum. We’re going to have a lively discussion with Psychology Professor and frequent gamer Dr Anna Pope about transgender and non-binary representation in gaming. This is going to include highlighting games which have a playbook that is friendly to the LGBTQIA+ community, characters in games, and the players themselves and the pockets of toxic as well as affirming gaming groups that exist.
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 MoreMay 6, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday May 6, 2023 – Stedmond Ware
Stedmond Ware
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as Fiona interviews Stedmond Ware! Stedmond is a great advocate for our community and we will be discussing his life and his plans for the future.
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 MoreApril 29, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 22, 2023 – Bi George with Ryan Gove
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 a bonus Bi George episode as we have a fifth Saturday this month! Join George Thorman as she talks about gender affirming care with Jocelyn Bennett, the mother of a trans child and a lesbian. They’ll be discussing the experiences of their family as the children came out and transitioned, and the current LGBTQIA news.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
Keep up to date with all things Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
Read MoreApril 22, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 22, 2023 – Bi George with Ryan Gove
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 the back in the regular Bi George fourth Saturday time slot after last month's awesome band auction! Join George Thorman as she takes us through highlights of the LGBTQ news from the month, and talks to Ryan Gove, president of the AIDS Service Foundation to discuss its work and the upcoming AIDS walk.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
Keep up to date with all things Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
Read MoreApril 15, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • April 15, 2023 – Show People – Lindsey Rood-Clifford
It is the third Saturday of the month and time again for Show People on The Tenth Voice. Join host Michael Grayman-Parkhurst as we re-air our October 2022 episode with Lindsey Rood-Clifford, who became CEO and President of our local Starlight Theatre two weeks ago.
Lindsey is a lifetime Kansas Citian and the first woman CEO (not that it should matter) of a major theatre organization. She has been with Starlight since 2007 and brings a wealth of historical knowledge of the organization, experience in philanthropy and external relations, and event management. At the time of the original airing, she served as the C.O.O + V.P. of Philanthropy of Starlight. She succeeded Rich Baker upon his coming retirement.
Starlight is dedicated to producing, presenting, and promoting an exceptional art experience by delivering accessible live entertainment for all audiences, superior theatre arts education, impactful outreach programs, and events that utilize this iconic city-owned venue.
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 MoreApril 8, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 8, 2023 – Bonus Bi George!
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we have a bonus Bi George episode! There's just so much news and so many events in Kansas City that we have invited George and her guest to snuggle up under the Rainbow Kotatsu this month!
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 MoreMarch 18, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • March 18, 2023 – Show People
It is the third Saturday of the month and time again for Show People on The Tenth Voice. Join host Michael Grayman-Parkhurst as he welcomes another show person to the program. This month's guest is Daniel Beeman, who is currently making his Broadway debut in the musical Funny Girl! He has toured around the country playing Cornelius Hackl with the musical Hello, Dolly! and with the musical Something Rotten!
Originally from Omaha, Daniel began his professional career right here in Kansas City where he has performed at Kansas City Rep, KC Starlight and Spinning Tree Theatre.
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 MoreMarch 11, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday March 11, 2023 – 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 Una: Fiona is a nonbinary lesbian, and has presented in four panel sessions on Yuri and LGBTQIA+ themes in Anime, as well as assisting with engineering for anime music video (AMV) sessions at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2021 & 2022, and at Momocon 2022, two of the largest anime conventions in the United States. Una has also studied the subject and co-presented on the two panels on Yuri and LGBTQIA+ themes in Anime at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2021 with Fiona, and Una is herself an intersex and transgender woman.
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
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