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Wake Your Dreams.

@sarah-darlingg

Sar ✌🏼️👻🌻Queer💙
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homojabi

Reminder: trans Muslims and gay Muslims exist and we’re not going anywhere.

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homojabi

The amount of support that this post has gotten is, quite honestly, incredible. LGBT Muslims are constantly forgotten and ignored because people from both the LGBT community and the Muslim community view our existence as a contradiction or an impossibility. It’s time that people acknowledge us and our experiences with islamophobia and homophobia/transphobia because like I said: we’re not going anywhere. 

This has happened to me before when I was in college at a frat party. This girl comes squeezing herself in between me and my friend and throws her arms around me. “Amanda, I am so glad you decided to come!” I was so confused and just figured she was drunk and mistaked me for someone else, until I saw the panic on her face. She leaned close and whispered that a guy was following her, was certain that he had put something in her drink and if I would please play along. I looked behind her and sure enough, some creep was watching her like a hawk. We invited her to hang out with us the rest of the night and even waited until her ride showed up just to make sure she was safe. Always look out for each other!

If you ever feel scared like this just come up to me like we have been friends since kindergarten, call me any name u can come up with ill play along.

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17mul

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Stay together, stay safe

Perfect advice. I’m reblogging this as a guy, because first of all, if you”re a guy : DON’T DO THAT. Don’t be that creep.

And if you’re a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that she’s obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if something’s wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, don’t take it personally). (and don’t you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)

We can all stop “witnessing and do nothing”, and set an example.

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hapslock

Alternative option for a guy: if you feel safe doing so, go up to the creeper who’s following her and be like “hey WHAT’S UP bud do you like SPORTS? My favourite team is the redsox what’s YOURS my man? What you DRINKING dude that looks GOOD.” and be friendly and just loud enough to blow his cover. Draw attention to him and see what he does. He won’t feel as safe creeping if he knows people are looking at him, and maybe he’ll leave. It also means the woman won’t have to worry that you are *another* creeper she has to be wary of, and you may distract the bad dude enough to give her a chance to lose him.

Reblogging for that last comment.

NO THIS NEEDS TO BE BOOSTED

Alternatively, spill your drink on the creeper, or bump into him so he spills his. Apologize loudly and bro-ishly. Offer to help him clean it up, over there (away from the woman he’s creeping on). Don’t take no for an answer. I

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elanska

Well, considering that I am paranoid, I will likely to think you’re in cahoot with the stalker and trying to stall me so the creeper can catch up. In my best scenario, it would be helping if you - dunno, probs shout to him ‘hey dude in black jacket, you drop this! “ (it can be random junk) and made him pause for a while checking and you goes’ really? Not yours? I swear totally sees you dropped it, sorry my bad” . It shifted his attention to you though. If you are with friends you can counter following him and repeat the harassment if he persist his chasing

I understand that logic and rationalizing with statistics (alone) isn’t enough to overpower hypervigilant fear most of the time (I’ve personally never had any paranoid disorder - at least, I don’t think that PTSD falls under that umbrella? - but anyway, I can at least relate to an extent) - so let me just say that if you suffer from any paranoid disorder, and you manage to work through that overwhelming fear to help protect the person that’s far more likely to be the one in real danger anyway, than you are stronger than a goddamn Hypernova and admirably selfless and you deserve everything that’s good and pure in this world and I salute you. 

All of this is absolutely excellent for everyone to keep in mind, so please signal boost this!! WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER AND STAY SAFE. 

My cousins and i were walking downtown NOLA really late on mardi gras & this weirdo literally followed us for like 4 blocks murmuring “damn…yall so fine…mmhh” like just loud enough for us to hear him it was so disturbing until i literally turned around & was like “BRUH CAN U STOP FOLLOWING US?! YOU NEED TO GO THAT WAY LIKE STOP!” Thank God he actually did cuz we was tipsy & bout ready to jump his skinny ass smh. STAY SAFE YALL!! MAKE A SCENE! BE LOUD!