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The Tenth Voice is the Kansas City area's only weekly broadcast created by and for LGBTQIA people throughout the metro region. 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 and Allied collective communities.
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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 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.
Third Saturdays’ host is Michael Grayman-Parkhurst.
Fourth Saturdays’ (Trans Talk episode) host is Una 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
December 24, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday December 24th, 2022 – Trans Talk
This week's episode of The Tenth Voice is Trans Talk, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender nonconforming community.
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 MoreNovember 26, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
Back by Popular Demand – The Tenth Voice • November 26, 2022 – Show People with Tim Bair
It is the 4th Saturday of November and time for Show People with Michael Grayman-Parkhurst! This week we are replaying Michael's interview with Tim Bair, who is the Producing Artistic Director of Theatre in the Park, the largest outdoor community theatre in the country. Theatre in the Park is a return to Tim’s roots having started his career as a performer there and later as a choreographer. Leaving Kansas for New York, Tim performed in the 42nd Street European Tour and toured with Jodi Benson in My One and Only. He has served as Artistic Director at both the Millbrook Playhouse in Millbrook, Pennsylvania, and The American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Moving back to Kansas in 2010, Tim, his husband Alan, and his daughter Sophie live in Overland Park, KS.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm on 90.1 FM or stream live at kkfi.org.
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ListenNovember 19, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday November 19th, 2022 – Trans Talk & TDOR
This week's episode of The Tenth Voice is Trans Talk, where we discuss news and issues and items of interest to the transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender nonconforming community. Today's episode is a special episode honouring Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is tomorrow, November 20th. We will be talking about some of the people that we have lost, and holding them in our memory, that they should not be forgotten.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for another lively and interesting discussion!
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ListenNovember 12, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday November 12, 2022 – The Rainbow Kotatsu – Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Representation
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we continue our series on anime (animation) and manga (illustrated novels) dealing with LGBTQIA+ themes. Following up on discussion in June, we will have a second session on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex representation in anime, which generally is the poorest-represented segment of the community and reflected somewhat by Japanese society in general. Amongst others, we will finally be discussing Wandering Son today!
The discussion will be hosted by Fiona and Una : Fiona has presented in two 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 and 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!
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ListenNovember 5, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday November 5th, 2022 – Grey Matters
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice and join Daddy Rae as they continue the ongoing discussion of mental health, wellness, and the LGBTQIA+ community! Today Daddy Rae will be joined by Melissa, who will share her experience from the field of veterinary medicine as it relates to animals as companions, friends, family members and how we include them in our lives, as well as the unique ways that we're affected and grieve when they die.
TUNE IN, CALL IN, JOIN US! Call the studio at 816-931-5534. 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
DISCLAIMER: Although Rae Bowerman is in practice as a licensed psychotherapist, this program and its content do not constitute any form of implicit or explicit professional counseling, therapy, advice, and/or treatment; nor any guarantee of service or obligation by GENEX Therapeutic Solutions LLC. All advice given on KKFI by Rae is strictly in a non-professional setting and context.
Read MoreOctober 29, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • 2022 -October 29, Starla Carr!
It is the special fifth Saturday of the month, and host Starla Carr returns to bring her voice as a multi-talented woman of color to discuss black lesbian love in music, television, and film - especially talking the truth about positive and negative influencers and their influence.
ListenOctober 22, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday October 22nd, 2022 – Trans Talk
This Trans Talk follows up on the September 24th episode, where we hosted surgeons from NYU discussing gender confirmation surgery and how to have the best experience and recovery. In that show, we mentioned our January 22nd, 2022 episode on planning for bottom surgery. So we are re-airing that show today to help people plan for gender affirmation surgery.
It's also pledge drive time at KKFI, so don't forget to head over to the main page at kkfi.org and donate, and tell them The Tenth Voice sent you! Or you can donate to our fundraiser on our facebook page linked below!
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm!
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ListenOctober 15, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • October 15, 2022 – 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 he welcomes Lindsey Rood-Clifford, the incoming President & Chief Executive Officer of Starlight Theatre. Lindsey is a lifetime Kansas Citian and the first woman CEO (not that it should matter) of a major theatre organization.
Starlight is dedicated to producing, presenting and promoting an exceptional arts 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
ListenOctober 8, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday October 8, 2022 – The Rainbow Kotatsu – New Yuri/Lesbian Anime
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we snuggle up under the rainbow kotatsu & discuss new and current yuri shows! There is a great crop of new shows out this season, and we're going to talk about all of them. Some are just in their first few episodes, and some have just finished their first season (& are rumoured to actually have a second season forthcoming). Shows discussed will include the new Mobile Suit Gundam show - A Witch From Mercury, Birdie Wing, Lycoris Recoil and more!
Join us this Saturday at 1pm on 90.1FM, or streaming on kkfi.org!
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ListenOctober 1, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday October 1, 2022 – Grey Matters
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice and join Daddy Rae as they talk with their family and discuss who inspires them, and what is family, and what is means to inspire someone.
TUNE IN, CALL IN, JOIN US! Call the studio at 816-931-5534. 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
DISCLAIMER: Although Rae Bowerman is in practice as a licensed psychotherapist, this program and its content do not constitute any form of implicit or explicit professional counseling, therapy, advice, and/or treatment; nor any guarantee of service or obligation by GENEX Therapeutic Solutions LLC. All advice given on KKFI by Rae is strictly in a non-professional setting and context.
ListenSeptember 24, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday September 24th, 2022 – Trans Talk
NYU Langone Health Reconstructive Urologist Lee Zhao, MD, and Plastic Surgeon Rachel Bluebond-Langner, MD, together perform gender-affirming surgery, utilizing NYU Langones robotic surgical platform for bottom surgery, which allows for a great degree of safety and precision. Photo credit: Sasha Nialla for NYU Langone Health (PRNewsfoto/NYU Langone Health)
This Trans Talk follows up the January 22nd, 2022 episode on planning for bottom surgery. Kate Redman hosts a conversation with her surgeons, Dr. Rachel Bluebond-Langner and Dr. Lee Zhao who used their skills and shared their expertise to affirm her in October of 2021.
The conversation is a mix of what’s involved in Affirmation Surgery, and Kate’s stories of her experience with the Transgender Surgery Services program at NYU Langone in New York City.
It’s a lively conversation about Gender Affirmation and all that’s involved with bottom surgery. You won’t want to miss it.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm!
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