Dr. Mehret Mandefro | HIV Prevention Work | Women’s Health
October 14, 2008
NO! is a critical tool for all public health educators and practitioners concerned with women’s health. The medical and public health consequences of trauma related to sexual violence are profound and alarming. Moreover, there is a connection between trauma and HIV which makes this film particularly important for HIV prevention work. I highly recommend it to medical professional and public health professionals examining this intersection.
Mehret Mandefro, M.D., MSc
TruthAIDS, Founding Director
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar
University of Pennsylvania
Robin Morgan | NO! The Rape Documentary Testimonial
October 8, 2008
“Did I ever tell you how utterly superb I found NO! The Rape Documentary? My god, it’s not only a doco, it’s a work of art. Truly devastating. Yet hopeful. Even beautiful. And deadly. Thank you for having the guts and vision to have seen it through. It really is one helluva remarkable work.”
Robin Morgan, is an award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author. A former editor-in chief of Ms. magazine, she is founder of The Sisterhood is Global Institute and, most recently, a co-founder and Board Member of the Women’s Media Center.
Harriet Hirshorn | NO! The Rape Documentary | Media Activism
October 8, 2008
“I am still thinking about your film, which was really interesting, beautiful, brave, inspiring, truly activist media, truly media activism… I think this is the first time in my life that I can actually glimpse the possibility that rape is something that could be stopped. I also think you have found a brilliant way to organize.”
Harriet Hirshorn, Producer/Director, Our Lives Our In Our Hands
Kenyon Farrow’s Testimonial on NO! A Documentary on
May 19, 2008
“I don’t know if I have seen a more nuanced and comprehensive film dealing with rape and sexual violence in the Black community.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ NO! forces us to deal with the lasting trauma Black women survivors have to endure, but also forces us to confront our own ambivalence about the rape of Black women as men, and an entire Black community.
This film gives us the language and the context by which we can examine the racism, sexism and homophobia within the Black community, but also helps us see the way Black women have struggled to heal, and what we as allies to Black women can do to end sexual violence in our communities.
NO! is a gift to those of us who who know that there can be no Black liberation where women cannot be self-determining.”
Kenyon Farrow, essayist, organizer, media and communications specialist, and board co-chair for Queers for Economic Justice.
Osizwe Eye di yiye’s Testimonial on NO! A Documentary on Rape, Sexual Assault, and Healing
April 29, 2008
“NO! The Rape Documentary insists that black communities openly acknowledge the dehumanization that rape belies and the integrity and humanity of rape survivors.With this film and the accompanying resource guide, Aishah Simmons and her colleagues have created a teaching tool with an awesome potential for healing and social change. NO! The Rape Documentary has been an invaluable resource that I have shared with my students, colleagues, friends, and loved ones. I will keep showing this film until I run out of people with which to share it.”
Osizwe Eyi di yiye, M.S. Ed
Educator/ Consultant
African American & Women’s Studies, Temple University
University of Wisconsin-Madison Hosts Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica Dillon
April 6, 2008
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica Dillon are featured guests during Sexual Assault Awareness Month | University of Wisconsin-Madison
From April 15, 2008 through April 17, 2008, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Monica Dillon will be featured guest lecturers, workshop facilitators, and performers at University of Wisconsin – Madison as a part of their Sexual Assault Awareness Month programming. In addition to screening NO! The Rape Documentary and meeting with studens and faculty, they will perform “For Women and Men of Rage & Reason, a cinematic, poetic and musical journey from victim to survivor and activist in the international movements to end violence against women.
An extra highlight to this experience is that Tiona M., the fierce producer, director, photographer, and editor of the ground breaking documentary black./womyn.:conversations… will document Monica and Aishah’s performances and presentations. Tiona will also screen the black./womyn.:conversations trailer, which features the voices of over 50 lesbians of African descent, including Monica and Aishah, and talk about the process of making this important film.
Aishah and Monica are so very excited to be performing and presenting with other again. Each time they present and share together with students and faculty 
they learn more and more about each other as cultural workers, eradicating violence against women, and of course, what’s on the mind of students right now.
For detailed information about the two major events that are open to the public on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 and Thursday, April 17, 2008, please visit http://www.today.wisc.edu/events/view/3933 and http://www.today.wisc.edu/events/view/3183
New Orleans Screening of NO! A Documentary About Rape, Sexual Assault, and Healing
April 3, 2008
On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 7:00pm, the Ashe’ Cultural Arts Center will host a FREE screening and discussion, in New Orleans, LA, of NO!, a feature length documentary about rape, sexual assault and healing in African-American communities.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor who is the producer, writer, and director of NO!, along with New Orleans-based mental health care professionals, will be present to facilitate the creation of a safe environment for the discussion immediately following the screening.
Copies of NO! and her supplemental materials (Breaking Silences, and Unveiling the Silence) will be on sale at the screening and discussion.
NO! A Documentary About Rape and Sexual Assault Screened and Discussed at Brown Memorial Baptist Church
April 3, 2008
in recognition of
SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH (APRIL)
Kevin Powell, Black and Male in America (BAMIA),
Hot 97.1 Radio, allhiphop.com, April Silver of AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc.,
CONNECT, and the Black and Latino Filmmakers Coalition
present
A Special Screening
and Discussion about
a documentary about rape, sexual assault,
and violence against women and girls
www.NOtheRapeDocumentary.org
featuring
AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS
Writer, Director, and Producer of the award-winning film NO!
QUENTIN WALCOTT
Anti-violence activist; Director, CONNECT Training Institute (CTI)
and the Community Empowerment Program
KEVIN POWELL
Writer, Activist, and Author of the essay
“Ending Violence Against Women and Girls”
(visit www.huffingtonpost.com to read the essay)
plus a special creative piece by
TOYIA TAYLOR
Poet and Community Activist
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008
Doors open at 6:30 pm
program begins at 7:00 pm
at BROWN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
(Pastor: Rev. Clinton Miller)
484 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(at the corner of Gates Ave. | Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY)
A or C to Clinton/Washington stop
Admission is FREE, no RSVP needed.
Seating will be on a first-come basis.
This program is open to females AND males of all ages.
Counselors will be on site to field questions from rape,
sexual assault, and domestic violence survivors.
Copies of the NO! DVD will be ON SALE.
PLEASE BRING a PEN and NOTEPAD
and PLEASE COME PREPARED
TO WORK, LEARN, AND SHARE…
For more information call 718.390.3520 OR
email us contact@blackandmaleinamerica
Visit us on the web at www.blackandmaleinamerica.org
PLEASE NOTE THAT BAMIA’s regular monthly empowerment workshops are for MALES ONLY. We will return to that format
on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 7pm (same locatoin).
The workshop leader will be KENDRICK B. NATHANIEL.
Topic: “Taking Care of Your Physical Health”
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