Robin Morgan Guest Curates | NO! The Rape Documentary | 2011 DOXA Film Festival

April 11, 2011

Robin Morgan Guest Curated NO! The Rape Documentary

at 2011 DOXA Film Festival

Feminist activist, prolific author, and former editor of Ms. magazine Robin Morgan guest curated NO! The Rape Documentary for the 2011 DOXA Film Festival. DOXA is Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival. This is an important honor for NO! for two major reasons. One, founder/leader of US contemporary feminism, Robin Morgan has also been a leader in the international women’s movement for 30 years and counting. She has published over 20 books including the now-classic anthology Sisterhood Is Global. In her essay, “NO! A Film of Sexual Politics – An Art,” Morgan writes:

“…Since the invitation to be a guest curator, I’ve thought of so many films crucial to the flowering of global feminism, to the coming to voice of women -more than half of humanity- that my list was more than enough for a complete festival… But at heart I knew from the first what my choice was going to be: an extraordinary, feature-length documentary 11 years in the making, the creation of one stubborn, visionary woman, Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Simmons conceived, wrote, directed and produced NO! The Rape Documentary, a ground-breaking film that explores the international reality of rape and other forms of sexual assault…”

Two, it is really an honor for Robin Morgan, an esteemed and internationally known feminist activist/author/activist/organizer to curate NO! for DOXA, a highly respected international documentary film festival five years after NO!’s world premiere at the 2006 Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Click HERE to read “NO! A Film of Sexual Politics – and Art,” by Robin Morgan.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons will present NO! The Rape Documentary at DOXA on Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 4pm at the Vancity Theatre.

For more information about the presentation of NO! at the 2011 DOXA Film Festival, click HERE

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Reading the Language of Rape Culture | State of Things

April 11, 2011

Reading the Language of Rape Culture

The State of Things | WUNC Public Radio | 91.5FM

Most cases of rape and sexual assault never make the news. But in recent weeks, horrific stories about victims of sexual violence have created national headlines. Some language used in the reporting of these cases and public reactions to them has caused controversy. How we articulate ideas about rape sheds light on American perceptions of violence, gender and race. On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, Host Frank Stasio discussed the language and the law surrounding rape with a panel of guests including documentary filmmaker (NO! The Rape Documentary)?Aishah Shahidah Simmons; Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of African and African-American Studies at Duke University; Melissa Harris-Perry, associate professor of politics and African-American Studies at Princeton University; and Mary R. Block, associate professor of history at Valdosta State University.

Listen HERE

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NO! The Rape Documentary | Ford Foundation | JustFilms Collection

April 11, 2011

NO! The Rape Documentary included in the

Ford Foundation’s JustFilms Collection


In February 2011, the Ford Foundation launched JustFilms, which is both a new initiative; and new online archive of social justice films that Ford has supported over the past 30 years. NO! The Rape Documentary is included in this prestigious collection, which represents the Foundation’s “commitment to groundbreaking documentaries that inform, inspire and advance change.”

The goal of the archive and new initiative is “to advance social justice worldwide through the talent of emerging and established filmmakers.”

For more information about JustFilms, please click HERE

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