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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
October 14, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday October 14, 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 Anna: 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 & 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 MoreOctober 21, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • October 21, 2023 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time for Through the Rainbow Lens with Matthew Koehler!
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
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday September 23, 2023 – 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 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.
Today, George hosts three guests from Peaceworks KC - two local artists from the LGBTQIA+ community, George Wren, and Julia from Life and Death Designs by Julia, and Kimmy Igla from Peaceworks KC. They're talking about their lives and art, and the Peaceworks KC art fair, which is taking place this Saturday & Sunday. You can also find out more about Julia's art at Instagram.com/lifeanddeathdesignsbyjulia
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
ListenSeptember 16, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • September 16, 2023 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time for the first show of a new host! Join us today as Matthew Koehler interviews his first guest! Matthew sits down with two friends, Taylor Sims and James Taylor, to talk about various video games titles and how they and how they relate to themselves, how they are received by the community, and what could be done to take these titles to the next level.
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
ListenSeptember 9, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday September 9, 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! And today, we are throwing ourselves into the gender blender! We talk about all the gender bender shows, if there are any good ones, why are some of them so problematic, and why the continuing fascination with the topic and the gender flipping in anime and manga. All this and more!
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 MoreAugust 26, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday August 26, 2023 – 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 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!
Today's guest is Dona Lackey, a licensed massage therapist and co-owner of Mind Body Balance KC. She is also the wife of last month's guest, Taryn Kelly.
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 MoreAugust 19, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • August 19, 2023 – Through the Rainbow Lens
It is the third Saturday of the month and time to introduce you to a new host! Sadly, we are saying goodbye to Michael Grayman-Parkhurst as a regular host of the Tenth Voice, but we do get to welcome a new person to the show. Join us today as Fiona interviews Matthew Koehler & welcomes him to the program.
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
Read MoreAugust 12, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday August 12, 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! Today, we’re going to be expressing our bitter disappointment with Bandai and talking about mecha representation of all shapes and sizes, and letting the conversation wander from there.
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 and 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 MoreAugust 5, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday August 5, 2023 – Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives with Stedmond Ware Copy
Join us this Saturday on The Tenth Voice as Stedmond Ware hosts "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives!" 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 MoreJuly 29, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday July 29, 2023 – 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 the fifth Saturday of the month, which means that we are lucky enough to have a bonus episode of Bi George, so 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!
Keep up to date with all things Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
Read MoreJuly 22, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • Saturday July 22, 2023 – 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 and gives us a round up of the LGBTQIA+ news for the month. This week’s guest is the local artist, Kevin Deen. All this and more on this week's episode of Bi George.
Kevin Neen
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 MoreJuly 15, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Tenth Voice • July 15, 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. Sadly, his guest had a family emergency, so we are re-airing the show from December, which was an awesome interview with Tracy Terstriep - here's the details from that show for you:
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 Tracy Terstriep, Broadway Actress & Dancer, Movie Actress, TV, and the Director of Theatre, Upper School Performing Arts Chair at Pembroke Hill School. Her Theatre credits include Fosse and The Producers, a film credit in the 2005 movie version of The Producers, and TV credits in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Great Performances.
Join us this Saturday at 1 pm for a fascinating conversation. And keep up to date with all things Tenth Voice by visiting our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TenthVoice
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