Award-winning Black feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker, educator, activist, cultural worker, writer and international lecturer

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True liberation must come from within

I am a Black feminist lesbian who is a survivor of both incest/child sexual abuse and rape. What better individuals to lead the movement to end child sexual abuse than those of us who have not only been directly impacted, but who are actively engaged in transforming that unspeakable trauma and terror into healing and liberation? Love, for me, is a verb—an action—and I consistently strive to be the embodiment of what I want to womanifest in this work.

                                                                  -Aishah Shahidah Simmons

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#FROMNO2LOVE

There isn’t a more significant time to uplift the courageous, intergenerational, diasporic Black voices in NO! The Rape Documentary, and Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse anthology than now. Fall 2019 will mark both the 25th anniversary of the first pre-production meeting for the internationally acclaimed documentary film, NO!, and the forthcoming publication of the Love WITH Accountability anthology. Each of these works are groundbreaking, prevention resources that unwaveringly center diasporic Black survivors of adult rape and child sexual abuse.

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Filmography

To Some Supposed Brothers

Deconstructing Rape Myths

Feminist We Love

Breaking Silences: A Supplemental Video to NO!

For Women of Rage and Reason

NO! The Rape Documentary

About Aishah

Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, published writer, international lecturer, professor, and activist. For twenty-six years, Simmons has been both motivated and engaged as a cultural worker because she believes each one of us has the birth right to live in a world where oppression and exploitation based on race/ethnicity, gender/gender identity, national origin/citizenship, sexuality/sexual orientation, class, and/or religion of anyone is non-existent. Aishah credits both her 27-year work with a Black feminist licensed psychologist and a dedicated 17-year practice of vipassana meditation as two integral tools that support her work, which are located at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and spiritual practice.