BY SYDNEY BRASIL FOR COMPLEX CANADA
(COMPLEX) Ahead of the release of her single “I am not going to kill you,” Nemahsis has shared the inspiration for the track—an Islamophobic encounter she had on a flight.
The Toronto-based singer took to her widely popular TikTok account to detail what happened in a storytime video. “So this six-foot-something middle-aged dude was scared of me, a five-foot-nothing hijabi Muslim girl sitting on the flight next to him. Are you kidding me?” she says.
Nemahsis says that while on a flight from Toronto to Los Angeles, she was sat beside an uncomfortable looking man. She offered to swap seats with him, since she assumed he might not have enough leg room in the middle seat.