NO! The Rape Documentary screenings & related presentations with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
in 2021
Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies hosts
Anger, Social Justice, and Buddhism
a public (virtual) conversation with two long-term
Tibetan and Theravada Buddhist practitioners and survivors of sexual violence
sujatha baliga and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 6:00 -7:30 pm PST (9:00-10:30 pm EST)
Registration is required. Donations are invited but not required.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Click HERE for more information
The Final Straw Radio rebroadcasts
“Aishah Shahidah Simmons on #LoveWITHAccountability®”
Available on Apple and Spotify Podcasts
July 19, 2021
#LoveWITHAccountability® would not exist without NO! The Rape Documentary.
“This week we re-air an interview done with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who is a writer, community organizer, prison abolitionist, and cultural worker who has done just an immense amount of work over the years to help disrupt and end the patterns of sexual abuse and assault within marginalized communities. In this interview we talk about a lot of things, her background and how she came to be doing the work she’s doing right now, how better to think about concepts like accountability, what doing this work has been like for her as an out lesbian woman, and about her book Love WITH Accountability, Digging Up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse which was published in 2019 from AK Press.”
Aishah Shahidah Simmons featured on BNC TV
July 8, 2021
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Dr. Salamishah Tillet, co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc., talked with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill on BNC TV about the need to address rape culture and sexual violence in our communities. The conversation was in response to Judge Joe Brown’s shameless victim blaming in defense of Bill Cosby.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons featured on Weekly Dharma Gathering
June 30, 2021, 7pm ET
The recorded guided meditation and dharma talk is available for viewing
Topic: loveWITHaccountability®
What if we didn’t weaponize accountability in the name of justice? What if we viewed accountability as a radical form of love grounded in the belief that we are all capable of causing harm? Harm is on a vast spectrum. Most of us have caused some form of harm on our life’s journey, and it is often not the sum total of our humanity. loveWITHaccountabilty® is an experiential invitation to center the harmed without discarding the harm doer.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her mother, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons featured
in ‘me too.’ movement’s Survivor Healing Series
June 16, 2021
Aishah Shahidah Simmons featured on Conversating w/Pops’nAde podcast
May 2021
How does one heal after childhood and adult sexual violence? As marginalized and disenfranchised people who’ve been under the boot of white supremacy in 1619, we’re actively engaged with the “otusider” causing harm, but what do we do when the “insider” causes harm? How do we deal with these shades of grey in our families and communities.
You can view the recorded live conversations with captions, or you can listen to the conversation wherever you listen to podcasts.
L’Erin Alta’s Black Girl Mystic podcast presents:
Episode 28
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Surviving Sexual Assault to Create Love WITH Accountability
photo credit: Zhee Chatmon
During the interview, Aishah shared about:
Growing up Black, Sufi Muslim and vegan, while attending Quaker schools in the Black power movement.
Her young adult spiritual journey leading to an 18-year Buddhist spiritual practice.
How + why she left the Vipassana practice (taught by S.N. Goenka) after 18-years.
Creating her groundbreaking film, " NO The Rape Documentary"
Why she don't push forgiveness or bypassing rage.
How she honors her rage with meditation practice.
You can listen to the Black Girl Mystic episode wherever you listen to podcasts.
San Francisco Public Library - One City One Book Campaign
A virtual screening of NO! The Rape Documentary & Director Talk
with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Monday, April 12, 2021, 7:00PM PST
Registration is available here: http://bit.ly/OCOB4-12-21
They Carried Us presents:
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
6pm ET - Facebook Live Virtual Conversation
Generations of Struggle:
An Intergenerational Mother-Daughter Conversation about Sexual Violence
featuring
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, her mother, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, in conversation with Fasaha M. Traylor and Dr. Allener Baker-Rogers moderated by award-winning journalist, Linda Wright Moore.
The Movement for Black Lives presents:
Black Feminisms for Liberation
March 30, 2021
6pm ET
“Movement for Black Lives believes that Black feminist traditions are foundational to our social movements, inclusive policies, our revolutionary spirit, and to a true democracy. From defunding the police to significantly reducing climate change to ending the scourge of sexual violence, Black feminisms provide tools we can use to confront and interrupt power. Tune in to hear from some of today’s most prolific Black Feminist movement leaders.”
