s2e16: Despite what Russia claims, the roots of Ukrainian identity reach as far back as thousands of years. Despite what Russia is trying to do, a new generation of Ukrainian artists resists the cultural erasure and makes ancient Ukrainian culture reborn and reimagined again. For this one, a Ukrainian ethnographic researcher, style icon, and the founder of Nadiia, Nadiia Shapoval, explains how centuries of Ukrainian traditions are inspiring a new age of powerful cultural renaissance in wartime Ukraine, why many Ukrainians are on the journey to reclaim their ancient ancestral roots and in what way it makes our resistance to genocide even stronger.
