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Episode Four: Border Tongues | 'Searching for Language'

Jone ZhitiaWriter and activist

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Episode Four: Border Tongues | 'Searching for Language'

What happens to language when you cross a border? Jone Zhitia reflects on the experience of growing up between languages, the politics of linguistic belonging, and what it means to search for a mother tongue that no longer feels entirely your own.

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Jonë Zhitia's debut publication, a work that inhabits the space between languages, where feeling and expression resist easy translation.