I have this great Spanish history book about female prisoners of the Franco regime who managed to communicate with each other and anti fascist cells by encoding messages in knitting patterns they shared. The male guards never checked them because it was "just" women's knitting patterns
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A big list of the assembly language used by generations of women in knitting, an assembly language men didn't think an important or useful or *intellectual* skill worth learning.
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