It is the act of revealing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity without their consent. (Consent is important!)
WHY IS IT DETRIMENTAL?
Outing causes harm to the victim. It invades their privacy and their safety. It can even cost them their life. If you didn't know, there are countries where being part of the LGBTQ community can sentence you to death. It's cruel but we can't just change a country's laws, instead we should find ways and try our best to keep our people safe.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
CONSENT! Ask if it's okay to disclose information about it. If you're not close with each other, it's better to have a tight lip and mind your own business.
RESPECT! If they say they don't want to tell you or they don't want you to tell others, then you respect that and move on with your life. NEVER FORCE SOMEONE OUT! (You'll catch these hands.)
PROTECT! Don't let others trample yours or anyone's privacy. Let's stand up for each other to prevent others from harming our friends from the LGBTQ community.
EDUCATE! Educate, not only others, but also yourself. Research and spread awareness with the knowledge you gain, educate people to help create a better and safer space for the LGBTQ community.
WE WON'T LET OTHERS VIOLATE OUR PRIVACY!
Our privacy is our own. It's our right to be the one to disclose our personal information to others. IT'S OUR OWN DECISION TO MAKE, NOT OTHERS.
If you know someone's sexual orientation/gender identity, what do you do?
I noticed that magazine covers with women or men who have sexy bodies tells us how to change our physical appearance or how to hide our imperfections in just days. But in reality, they do not know what we are going through. There are also comedy movies or shows on the television that often uses overweight or underweight jokes as the basis of their storyline.
For years, it has been normal for people to criticize or make fun of someone's physical appearance. Now that I am old and know what is right, I am not just speaking for myself, but also to women and men who are experiencing this. There will never be a good excuse to shame.
Growing up having acne is one of the most difficult thing I am suffering. I even encountered being shamed to the public countless times. I always look at the mirror and tell myself "what happened to you?" Even though I still feel so insecure about my face and body, I am slowly trying to get past all the insecurities and not minding what other people is telling me. In short, loving my own self.
“You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it.” - Demi Lovato
What Does Mental Illness Awareness Mean to you?
It means knowing that mental illness affects not only people, but everyone, from friends and relatives to whole populations, no matter how simple or complex.
Awareness of mental illness involves acceptance and love instead of judgment and embarrassment; it means an end to discrimination and the beginning of hope.
Knowledge of mental health means that mental health is not only accepted as necessary, but we are talking about it, bringing it out there so that people who feel too much can get support they need.
Mental health awareness increases the possibility of early treatment, which can lead to a fast recovery. Knowledge reduces the negative adjectives that have been built to describe our people with a metal disease. By spreading awareness, mental health will now be seen as a disease. These diseases may be treated through medication.
-Unique. Yes you’re unique on your own way! all bodies are unique, there are no rights to criticize human being as “ugly” because she doesn’t fulfil your satisfaction.
-Standout. You’re rare and valued! You standout and heads up to all people and show to them that you doesn’t care. The problem is them not yours at all.
-Beautiful. You’re creation from God! He molds you as precious as diamonds. You don’t even need every body’s validation just to accept who you are. Being you is enough.
It’s so alarming that this generation the physical appearance of a person are big deal nowadays.Are you satisfied digging and insulting people on how his or her body type is? specially on girls now are easily body shame by the others. People are making fun and putting some efforts and wasting time to insult others by their body types or physical appearance. Let’s try to normalize and accept the the things just the way you are and not judging people by what you see rather look on the other side of it.Accept your flaws and imperfections, nothings wrong with you being your real self.
Copyright is a form of protection or having exclusive rights on the work of a author / creator, such as book, movie, music, art and etc. It’s a form of protection to prevent having the same works or ideas to other people. I mean who would like to have the same work as other people right? Up to this day, there are still a lot of people who doesn’t know how to give credits to other people’s work.
BEFORE YOU COPY SOMEONE’S WORK, PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR POSITION FIRST. THINK ABOUT THE HARDWORK AND PASSION THEY POURED JUST TO CREATE A MASTERPIECE. IT DOESN’T MATTER IF IT’S NOT A FAMOUS WORK BY AN UNKNOWN ARTIST / CREATOR / AUTHOR, ALWAYS LEARN HOW TO RESPECT EACH AND EVERYONE’S WORK.
“LIVE UP TO YOUR POTENTIAL INSTEAD OF IMITATING SOMEONE ELSE’S”
*Some of the photos are from Pixabay and Google. Credits to the rightful owner.
*Posters are made in Canva.
Cyberbullying is never okay. Lowering other people doesn't mean that you're at the top. Furthermore, we should think before we say or do something. Words are very powerful. Choose them well as it can help or destroy someone.
As a generation born in the information era, we are privileged to use different kinds of media. These media are used to share factual information and to communicate with other people. We have the freedom to express ourselves using these media and we also have the control to respect each other's opinion. Do not take this for granted. We have the responsibility to be a role model to the future generations.
In today's generation, people are really in to social media wherein they tend to abuse its capability. If it is not for sharing the positivity and informing others, it can be used for judging, manipulating and destroying someone's life. This drawing shows the effect of being controlled by the social media. You are letting people to define who you are, you cannot do the things that you want to do and your actions are limited since you are confined with the mean and harmful words of others. This may cause due to cyberbullying, cyber-mobbing, shaming, fake news and other media issues.
These issues need to stop because you’ll never know that someone might be depressed or it may lead to death. As a social media user, we should use this wisely and think about something that can benefit you and other people. This was made in order to inform and share knowledge and not to harm other people. We should never play the role of being a puppet, but rather we must be the one who control our life and be the voice for others who cannot fight for their own. We should get out in our comfort zone and continue to live our life to the fullest.
These accounts use names and identities that not only look real but are used to get closer access to specific people and their target audience. They do this to get personal information and to deceive or scam people to get their money.
Anyone can be a predator, so don't be the prey.
𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬
*some photos are taken from Pinterest. Credits to the rightful owner.
An original song created by a student to open the mind of people about body shaming. The main goal of this song is to comfort and help the victim of body shaming to build their confidence and to show other people that we have our own beauty. This beauty must be appreciated and not to judge on what we can see but to feel and understand what true beauty is. I hope that this song reach the people who are in need, before it is too late.
note: Images used in the video are original and not taken from search engines.
One tragic incident happened because of cyber-mobbing. Rebecca Ann Sedwick, 12 years old was ganged up online by 15 other girls. She was bombarded with online messages such as "you should die" and "why don't you just kill yourself". It is believed that she jumped to her death in 2013, because of the intense cyber-mobbing.