Feminist Attempts
@naeema’s workshop
Some pics taken by the awesome @69mirs from @naeema‘s fantastic workshop on optimizing images for the web at Nasawiya happening live right now. Special thanks to @monajem and @smexbeirut for lending us the projector.
@naeema is very funny when giving workshops 
participants learning how to optimize images
me laughing so hard at @naeema's workshop jokes
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