AfroLez Productions & NO! The Rape Documentary Events Calendar

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Welcome to the “NO! The Rape Documentary Events Calendar Page,” which features a listing of 2011 & 2012 Screenings, Lectures, Readings & Signings, and Workshops.

Please visit the NO! Archives page to view the listing of Screenings, Lectures, Readings & Signings, and Workshops from 2001 through 2010.

Click here to read the Events Blog.

If you want to bring Aishah Shahidah Simmons to your event, please go to the Booking Request Page for all inquiries regarding bookings, screenings, workshops, and interviews.

2012 Events

March 27, 2012
Duke University Women’s Center
Annual Founder’s Lecture on Gender Violence
Lunchtime Discussion on Queer Identity
Durham, NC

March 17, 2012
Cascade AIDS Project
“For Colored Girls” Women & Girls Health Fair 2011
National Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day
Portland, OR

March 2012
Screening & Discussion of NO! The Rape Documentary
Yola, Nigeria

February 24, 2012 – February 25, 2012
Black Women’s BluePrint Presents:
Mother Tongue Narratives: Monologues for Black Girls and Stolen Women Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Selves, Our Lives.
Featuring original narratives and performances by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Benita Rivera, Claudia Walters, Dominic Bradley, Dorcas Davis, Erin ‘EJ’ Serrano, Jamilla Reid, Jasmine Burnett, Kayona Brown, Nina Angela Mercer, Piper Yvonne Anderson, Safiya Bandele, Symone New, Tanika LaDawn Harbor, Tokunboh Talabi, Valarie Adams.
Mistress of Ceremony, Seshat (Dr. Julie Spooner, Ph.D.) Psychologist and Shaman.
Directed by Lori Payne, with Technical Direction by Pope Jackson with Lee Odom and Lorraine LaPrade.
National Black Theatre of Harlem
2031-33 Fifth Avenue (Between 125th and 126th Street)
New York, NY
6:30PM Opening Reception | 8:00PM Performance
Tickets $15 | $25 | $50

FOLLOWED BY (Saturday, February 25, 2012)…
CATHARSIS
A CONFERENCE for EMOTIONAL JUSTICE
FREE WHEN YOU ATTEND MOTHER TONGUE
The Center for Women’s Development
Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
10:00AM – 6:00 PM

February 16, 2012
Screening & Discussion of NO! The Rape Documentary
Rutgers University -Camden Campus Black History Month Celebration
Click HERE for more information
Camden, NJ
7pm

February 6, 2012
The Goodman Theatre Presents:
Context: The Social Construction of Sexual Violence
Join us for a conversation with activists, advocates, scholars, and survivors to explore race in its real-world context.
Panelists include: Aishah Shahidah Simmons, producer, writer, and director of NO! The Rape Documentary; Sharmili Majmudar, executive director of Rape Victim Advocates; Rachel Caidor, founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence; and Caleb Probst, education outreach associate for the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation.
Goodman Theatre
170 North Dearborn
Chicago, IL
7pm
FREE but reservations are required.

January 31, 2012
Panelist, Meditation Practices – Religion and Spirituality on Campus Week
Bond Memorial Hall
Swathmore College
Bond Memorial Hall
Swarthmore, PA
4:30pm

2011 Events

November 29, 2011
Saint Paul School of Theology
Kansas City, MO

November 19, 2011
“NO!” Breaking Silences Around Black Women and Rape: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
Moderator:
Rev. Carla Jean-McNeil Jackson, Esq.,  Independent Scholar
Panelists:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AfroLez® Productions
Rev. Traci C. West, Ph.D.,  Drew University
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., University of Florida
Rev. Obery M. Hendricks, Ph.D., New York Theological Seminary
Click HERE for more information
San Francisco, CA
8:00pm

October 27, 2011
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Columbia University
As part of Relationship Violence Awareness Month, Byron Hurt, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Ted Bunch, Akiba Solomon, and others will discuss Byron Hurt’s riveting, award-winning film that explores sexism and other pressing issues in hip-hop culture.
Moderator:
Akiba Solomon: http://colorlines.com/archives/author/akiba-solomon/
Confirmed Panelists:
Byron Hurt: http://www.bhurt.com/beyondBeatsAndRhymes.php
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: http://notherapedocumentary.org/
Ted Bunch: http://www.acalltomen.com/page.php?id=47
Click HERE for more information
New York, NY
6:00pm (Film screening), 7:30pm (Panel discussion)

October 17-18, 2011
Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton’s “Sexual Violence in Marginalized Communities” Conference
Keynote Address by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Click HERE for More Information
Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

October 13, 2011
DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn) AND JUSTICE: The Politics of Getting Off in a Rape Culture
An Open Forum hosted by CONNECT~ Safe Families, Peaceful Communities and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and their Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
Confirmed Panelists:
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia University
Elizabeth (Beth) Ribet, Research Director at the Center on Intersectionality and Social Policy in the School of Law at Columbia University
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer/Writer/Director, NO! The Rape Documentary
Rev. Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School.
Click HERE for more information
Columbia Law School ~Jerome L. Green Hall, Room 105, 435 W. 116th Street
New York, NY
6:30pm

August 6, 2011
SlutWalk Philadelphia Featured Speaker

May 14, 2011
NO! The Rape Documentary & Aishah Shahidah Simmons
DOXA FILM FESTIVAL
DOXA is Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival
NO! A Film of Sexual Politics – and Art by Robin Morgan (Guest Curator)
http://www.doxafestival.ca/doxa-11/festival/essay_no.html
Vancity Theatre
Vancouver, Canada
4pm

April 25, 2011
Screening & Dinner followed by  Discussion of NO! The Rape Documentary with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Princeton University
Presented by: Forbes College/the Center for African American Studies/the Women’s Center/SHARE/the Field Center/the Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center
Forbes College, Small Dining Room
Princeton, NJ
6pm

April 20, 2011
Screening and Discussion of NO! The Rape Documentary, with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Ohio University
http://ohiouwomenscenter.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/april-is-sexual-assault-awareness-month/
Athens, Ohio

April 12, 2011
Guest Lecturer, Race & Media in 20th Century U.S.
The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 6, 2011
Reading the Language of Rape Culture
The State of Things on WUNC Public Radio 91.5FM
Host Frank Stasio discusses the language and the law surrounding rape with a panel of guests including documentary filmmaker 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

April 2, 2011
Bridging the Gaps: A Focus on Innovations
A Conference Addressing Sexual Violence on College and University Campuses
Keynote Address by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
https://sites.google.com/site/campussexualassault/
Holton Career & Resource Center
Durham, NC

March 29, 2011
NO! The Rape Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Sex Crimes Against Black Girls Exhibit Public Programming
BSRC’s Skylight Gallery
1368 Fulton Street,
Brooklyn, NY
6:30pm

Brief Bios of Panelists:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Producer/Writer/Director, NO!

R. L’Heaureaux Lewis, Ph.D., is the program coordinator for the BROTHERS Summer Institute for teenage boys. He has been trained by Men Can Stop Rape and is also an active member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement – a human rights group – where he works with building student activists. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Black Studies, and Public Policy at the City College of New York (CUNY). http://uptownnotes.com

Salamishah Tillet, Ph.D., is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. a non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women. She is presently an Assistant Professor of English and African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  Professor Tillet is also the author of the forthcoming book, “Peculiar Citizenship: Slavery and the Post Civil Rights Imagination,” and a regular contributor to the online magazine, The Root. http://ALongWalkHome.org

March 23, 2011
Screening and Discussion of issues raised in NO! with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Squires Student Center
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
Blacksburg, Virginia
7pm

February 26, 2011
NO! Screening and Workshop with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Women’s & Men’s Groups of the Philadelphia Student Union
Philadelphia, PA

February 24, 2011
NO! Screening and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Reel Women Film Series
Kelley Center Presentation Room
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut
6pm

February 23, 2011
Guest Lecturer, “Introduction to Black Queer Studies: Queer Aesthetics in the Black Diaspora,” Seminar
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

February 16, 2011
Guest Lecturer, Ethnographic Film, Graduate Seminar
The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

February 8, 2011
Screening of NO! and Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
University of The Arts
CBS Auditorium
Philadelphia, PA
7:30pm

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