Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

WMM presents: RADIO-TRANS-MISSION

RADIO-TRANS-MISSION is a special show in honor of the fierce courage of our Trans, Non-Binary, and Queer artist friends we’ve regularly featured on the show. We’ll spin music from: Ivory Blue, Cassie Taylor, Cuee, MellowPhobia, Chase Horseman, The Creepy Jingles, June Henry, The Black Creatures, Eve Sheldon, Collidescope, Babydoll, Ingrid Ingram, Shamir, Flamy Grant, Laura Jane Grace, Moses Sumney, Lyra Pramuk, Sam Smith, John Cameron Mitchell, we’ll also play Electric Orchids and Hot Chip.

We’ll also play more tracks from the non-profit Red Hot Organization‘s new release: TRAИƧA, a spiritual journey across eight chapters and 46 songs with over 100 artists contributing and collaborating with this incredible collection. This 6-LP Box Set spotlights many of the most daring, imaginative trans and non-binary artists working in music today. Many of the artists in this collective we have been featuring on WMM since our inception as a radio show. More info at: https://redhot.org/

We’re living in an age when an entire Political Party, a President, his entire cabinet, the U.S. Congress & Senate, The Supreme Court, and Kansas & Missouri State governments are eliminating equality, civil rights, jobs, healthcare, and legal protections for our Transgender, Non-Binary & Queer friends. The recent election brought out cruel campaigns that blanketed our mainstream media with venomous bigotry, misinformation and lies, while commercial television & radio profited from the hate.

90.1 FM is non-commercial. We are Community Radio. We are different! We believe it is our mission to give evidence of the humanity that is put at risk by these irresponsible campaigns of hate. Throughout WMM’s 20 year history we’ve been the first to present recordings, live performances and interviews with Ivory Blue, Mitzi McKee, Jocelyn Olivia Nixon, Tillie Hall, Chase Horseman, Cuee, Ingrid Ingram, The Black Creatures, Collidescope, Flamy Grant, Calvin Arsenia, Stephonne, Al Hawkins, Kat King and so many others.

AND, Betse Ellis, critically acclaimed fiddler, singer, songwriter, member of The Starhaven Rounders, Little Miss Dynamite, and Betse & Clarke; with Rachel Christia a KC born tech-girl, afro-futurist, vocalist, actress, & landlocked mermaid who was in the bands: Hearts of Darkness, Pink Hawks, The Maestro’s, and is a board member for KC Folk Fest; AND, Fran Stanton, longtime KKFI listener, supporter, and volunteer, former associate programmer on River Trade Radio and co-owner of It’s a Beautiful Day at 39th & Broadway, KC’s longest continuously operating record store and bohemian/hippie boutique, for 35 years, all join us for the entire show as Guest Co-Hosts to encourage our beautiful listeners to call 888-931-0901, or visit http://www.kkfi.org to support 90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio during our Fall Fund Drive Show.

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Show #1085