Meet Shanai, a 19 year old college student at Vancouver, passionate about poetry, existentialism, and feminism. She has fused her knowledge with her love of literature and has created a successful poetry blog on Instagram: @inkbyshanai. In this episode, Shanai discusses how commodification culture and capitalism has led to placing unnecessary meaning and importance on materialistic things, and how this has developed into an extractive relationship with our environment. She illustrates how accepting the inherent meaninglessness of the world will inevitably lead to spreading love, and bring us one step closer to personal enlightenment.
Listen to Shanai share her story growing up being bullied, and how she used that as a motivating force to amplify BIPOC voices and convey feminist themes that are palatable for everyone. Shanai discusses how ridding judgement and meaning will lead to a leveled out playing field: "Screw your gender, sexual orientation, we are all equal here..."
