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.