Tune into Out-FM on Tues., September 15, 2026 from 8:00-9:00 pm ET, on WBAI/NY, 99.5 FM, or livestreaming at wbai.org/listen-live
Show will be posted by Wednesday evening to stream show or to download mp3 file.
Pauline Park (L) and Akilah Monifa (R) in Fruitvale (4-27-25)
Akilah Monifa's Blessings of a Blesbian Boomer
On Tuesday's show, Out-FM's Pauline Park speaks with Akilah 'Kiki' Monifa about the 23 performances of her autobiographical show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August to audience acclaim. In "The Blesbian Boomer, the African American writer and journalist who now lives in California talks about growing up in the segregated South, coming out as a lesbian, going to law school, launching a career in public relations and then journalism, marriages, divorces and children.
States Where 1 or More Transphobic Democrats are Running in the Congressional Midterms (in Purple)
Transphobic Democrats in the Mid-Terms
Out-FM's John Riley then talks with Pauline Park about the transphobic Democrats running in the mid-term elections in November and the advice from transgender journalist Erin Reed that LGBTQ community members and progressive allies refrain from voting for those transphobic Democrats; the show concludes with an assessment of the prospects for Democrats in the upcoming mid-term elections that may profoundly shape the last two years of Donald Trump's second term.
Ma Rainey, "Prove It On Me Blues"
Sister Rosetta, "Didn't It Rain?"