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ALT P1: Leesha points animatedly at a circular autistic spectrum diagram. Text: “So, you’re autistic, and you have all the traits except this one… stimming or self-stimulatory behaviour refers to repetitive movements. Diagnosis manuals usually give examples of stims perceived as “odd”. P2: A Black person in a yellow tracksuit flaps their hands. Text: “Hand flapping.” P3: A Black person in a green durag and black rucksack crouches and rocks excitedly. Text: “Rocking.” P4: A Black person with pink hair and pastel clothes walks on their toes. Text: “Toe walking.” P5: Keisha looks at Leesha sceptically. Text: “Yeah, I don’t flap.” Leesha looks at Keisha knowingly. Text: “You might not, but it doesn’t mean you don’t stim. Sometimes stims are hard to notice because they're culturally ‘normal’ movements.” P6: Keisha looks unsure. Text: “Do you have any examples?” Leesha looks excited. Text: “Yes! Welcome to the world of -” A stern man with locs and glasses leans in from the right. Text: “Ahem."
ALT The Naughty Nuff, makes us feel like we're not enough. It is born from the severe gap between what we dream we can get done in a day and what we actually get done. It is always there to make what we accomplish feel small and unworthy.
ALT On a flyer is an outline of a black figure showing its left-side profile. Above the outline, on the green background in all caps, it reads “African in Ukraine?”. On the top of the outline in caps it reads “Join telegram group.” the middle of the outline in all caps reads “Nigerian leaving plus verified information only.” after that there's a Twitter symbol than words that say in caps “Twitter spaces.” below that is are words in all caps that read “Help four Nigerians leaving Ukraine. Host welfare for Nigerians in Poland.” At the bottom of the flyer on blue background and with black words there are two hashtags that say in caps “Hashtag BlackInUkraine” “ Hashtag AfricansInUkraine” end of alt texts.
