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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 is one of the producers of Every Woman and the Tenth Voice, which air every Saturday. She also produces the Goth, darkwave, and industrial music show "The Darkest Hours" as DJ Nightshade. In April 2016 she was elected to the KKFI Board of Directors for a 3-year term. In April 2017 she was elected to be Vice President of the Board of Directors of KKFI, and in April 2018 she was elected as President of KKFI and retired as President on January 1, 2020.
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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.
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 18, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • June 18, 2022 – 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
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May 21, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • May 21, 2022 – 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 Aaron S. Ricucci-Hill to the program. Aaron S. Ricucci-Hill is local - they hail from Troy, MO, and are currently based out of Kansas City, MO. They finished their MM in Composition from the Conservatory of Music at UMKC this year, where their mentors included Paul Rudy, Chen Yi, and Yotam Haber. Ricucci-Hill has a passion for fruitful collaborations and has worked with Don-Paul Kahl, Playground Ensemble, BrainFreeze productions, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Musica Nova. Recent honors include third place in the Abundant Silence Composition Competition (2017, Forest Rituals), a residency with Plaza Winds (2020, Colors of Pride), and an honorable mention for the resulting piece from the 2021 ASCAP Morton Gould competition.Outside of composition, they sat on the Board of Directors for the Gateway Festival Orchestra of St. Louis for three seasons. In addition, Ricucci-Hill has served as Program Director for the No Divide Art Song Competition with No Divide KC.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
ListenMay 14, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday May 14, 2022 – The Rainbow Kotatsu Returns!
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we hold the third episode of a series on anime (animation) and manga (illustrated novels) dealing with LGBTQIA+ themes. Today we will cover some LGBTQIA+ news, especially in the light of the recent Supreme Court leak regarding Roe v Wade, intersex issues, and then deep dive into yuri and magical weapons, as exemplified by Soul Eater Not! and Azur Lane.
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, one of the largest anime conventions in the United States, and will be staffing Momocon 2022. 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.
Join us this Saturday at 1pm on 90.1FM, or streaming on kkfi.org!
Keep up to date with all thing Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
ListenMay 7, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday May 7, 2022 – Grey Matters
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice and join Daddy Rae as they welcome their grad school bff and fellow licensed psychotherapist all the way from Washington state, Lady Ginger!
Daddy Rae and Lady Ginger regularly collaborate and cohost a monthly webcast, "Untangled: Mentally Healthy Kink in a Vanilla World", and they will be bringing their combined mojo to the mic for this month's episode of Grey Matters!
Know what it's like when you go to a buffet for the first time, you're looking over the mounds of nosh and thinking, "Where do I even *start*?" That's what we feel like looking at this topic! The statuses of various relationships, assessing them, throwing them all together, looking at how and when they intersect in our vast and varied kinky and vanilla lives...*whew*! This topic brings up myriad questions: When D/s and "daily" relationships sit down for tea and decide they're going to be dance partners, can we say potential LTR? ...or something along those lines? How does it look when the lines and limits that had been negotiated and set are reexamined and recalibrated, and you find yourself in a hybrid arrangement never before considered yet is amazingly fitting? What does it take to *have that* (if that's what you want)? Rewind for a minute: How do you even start a D/s relationship? How do you know where you fit (role/s), or possibly when the flexibility you afford yourself in assessing that fit is *more* important than the fit itself? Yep. This is one BIG BUFFET!!! Bring your appetites, your questions, your comments, and your curiosity...and call in!
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!
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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 MoreApril 23, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 23rd 2022 – Bootstrapping Support and Activism Fatigue
Today we are discussing a very serious subject, which is the tremendous burden placed upon our own community to provide support for ourselves, the lack of support in many ways from the greater community, how the greater community can lend some positive energy to help further the cause, and the creeping doom of activism fatigue.
Read MoreApril 16, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • April 16, 2022 – Show People – The talented Tiff Barbour
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 actor, singer-songwriter and playwright Tiff Barbour to the program. This is a re-airing of an earlier show as Michael is not available today, but he wanted to share with everyone the wonderful Tiff Barbour again and let everyone know that 1776, one of the shows that they talked about, is back in rehearsals and will premiere at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, on May 17th before opening on Broadway in September.
Tiff Barbour is an actor, singer-songwriter and playwright. She plays Andrew McNair in the upcoming all female/non-binary Broadway revival of the musical 1776 directed by Tony-Award winner Diane Paulus. She has co-starred on HBO’s The Leftovers, Law & Order and The Education of Max Bickford. Tiff starred in the short film Rabbit which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. She has performed regionally at Baltimore Center Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company and North Shore Music Theatre to name a few and made her playwriting debut with her one-act entitled End the Cycle.
Join us this Saturday at 1pm.
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Read MoreApril 9, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 9, 2022 – The Rainbow Kotatsu Returns!
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we hold the second episode of a series on anime (animation) and manga (illustrated novels) dealing with LGBTQIA+ themes. Today we will cover some transcendent concepts of gay themes, crossdressing, yuri, and discuss the problematic issues of abusive themes in LGBTQIA+ anime as well as the phenomenon of queerbaiting and how to recognize it.
Read MoreApril 2, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday April 2, 2022 – Grey Matters
On *this* extra special birthday episode, Rae will be joined by my long-time friends @teriquinn and @calvinarsenia to talk about all things queer, music, KC, and whatever else we feel like. 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!
Read MoreMarch 19, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday March 19th, 2022 – Show People with Guest Tim Bair
It is the 3rd Saturday of the month and time again for Show People with Michael Grayman-Parkhurst! This week, Michael is interviewing 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.
Read MoreMarch 12, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday March 12, 2022 – The Rainbow Kotatsu – Yuri/Lesbian Anime
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as we start the first episode of a series on anime (animation) and manga (illustrated novels) dealing with LGBTQIA+ themes. Today we will introduce the concepts of anime and manga and their growing popularity among Generation Alpha, Generation Z and Millennials in the LGBTQIA+ community. The topics of today's installment will be yuri (girl-love/lesbian) anime and an intersectionality with otherness and alienation from society, cast within a review of three very different anime: Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Mysteria Friends, and Ms. Vampire Who Lives In My Neighborhood.
Read MoreMarch 5, 2022 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday March 5, 2022 – Grey Matters
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice Rae Bowerman (they/them) will be joining us as a host of the Tenth Voice every 1st Saturday for their new program "Grey Matters." Rae is a psychotherapist in private practice at GENEX Therapeutic Solutions LLC1 who both works with and is a member of the local LGBTQIA+ community as well poly, kink, and other communities that are often misunderstood, marginalized, and mistreated. Rae is also fluent in American Sign Language and has been an interpreter for more than 22 years.
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