QueerFM featured guests: Ash Winters an emerging Toronto-based poet/Joshua Ongcol a queer, Filipinx multidisciplinary artist

Ash Winters is an emerging Toronto-based poet. Queer and sober, their work navigates the intersections of addiction, identity, and trauma. Growing up queer in small-town Ontario gave Winters a chance to develop a lavish sense of humour and deep respect for empathy, both of which come through in their work. They graduated with their BA in English from Lakehead University in 2010. Their poetry has recently appeared in Existere and Open Minds Quarterly. Run Riot is their first book of poetry.Follow on all social media:caitlin-press.comdaggereditions.comhttp://ashwinters.com/**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Joshua Ongcol is a Dubai-born, Queer, Filipinx artist that is currently a settler on the unceded territories. As a multidisciplinary artist, Josh trained in street dance culture including Krump, Locking, Popping House, Hip hop, Vogue, Whacking from Jerry Chien, Koffi Noumedor, Ralph Escamillan, Mike Brown, Natasha Gorie, Rina Palerina, Anna Martynova, and Kim Sato, and Contemporary dance from Tiffany Tegarthen, David Raymond, 605 collective, Sufeh lee, Kevin Fraser, Peter Bingham, Justine Chambers, Delia Brett and Deanna Peters. Social media: JOSHONGCOLJosh is interested in the ways tenderness manifests in my body, and its receptivity to deep patterns, cycles and undercurrents. With this, Josh hopes to unravel the narrative of being a part of the Filipnx diaspora; specifically of intergenerational exchange, resilience, autonomy, queerness and spirituality.