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Terms like "butch," "drag," "shade," and "it's giving" all stem from the secret ways q***r folks used to communicate without cis-het folks knowing.

How secret q***r languages inspired the popular slang we use today - LGBTQ Nation Terms like butch, drag, shade. and it's giving all stem from the secret ways q***r folks used to communicate without cis-het folks knowing.

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Keep languages and ideas alive!

Today, Lithuania is marking the Book Smugglers’ Day (Knygnešio diena) to commemorate the people who are credited with keeping the Lithuanian language alive during repressive Tsarist policies in the 19th century.

🟢In 1864, publishing books in the Latin alphabet in Lithuania was prohibited. Two years later, publishing books in Lithuanian was banned entirely.

🟢To keep the language alive, people would smuggle books📚📚 from East Prussia, in the present-day Russian Kaliningrad region, over the border and into Lithuania.

Thanks to book smugglers, we preserved our language and fell in love with books.❤️
📸Andrius Aleksandravičius


Lietuvos nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo biblioteka

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