Skye Ward | NO! The Rape Documentary Testimonial
November 17, 2008
“NO! deserve a resounding YES for it’s bold approach to confronting the taboos, controversy and horrors of the sexual assault of Black women/girls. NO! is a potent healing balm and a fierce weapon. NO! is a vital tool for soul revival and spirit restoration amongst sexual assault survivors, advocates and educators alike. Accept love-preview NO!”
Skye Ward, Freelance Writer and Blogger
Skyeview: A Sistahs’ View of the World
www.kuma2.net/skyview/
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
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
Testimonial para NO! una película documental sobre la violación sexual y la curación en comunidades afroamericanas
September 16, 2008
Estoy tan agradecida que una mujer afrodescendiente lo hizo una prioridad decir la verdad, clamorosa y clara, sobre la violencia sexual que sufrimos. Aishah Shahidah Simmons debe ser reconocida como héroe por todos los y las afrodescendientes, porque su documental fue un labor de amor que puede ser el catalizador que necesitamos para empezar a sanar nuestra comunidad entera-mujeres y hombres, niñas y niños. ¡No más vergüenza ni miedo! ¡Gracias, Aishah!
Lori Robinson, Editor
VidaAfroLatina.com
editor “at” vidaafrolatina “dot” com
témoignages à propos de NO! | un documentaire sur le viol et le processus de guérison dans les communautés afro-américaines
September 16, 2008
Je suis fière d’avoir pu participer à ce grand projet en effectuant la traduction française de NO!. Ce documentaire, puissant par ses témoignages, donne la force aux femmes et lesbiennes de tous les pays de lutter contre les violences intracommunautaires souvent cachées, souvent tues par peur d’affaiblir la famille, le clan, la communauté. NO! est un outil pour ouvrir les consciences. NO! est une arme pour les militantes et les militants. NO! est une source d’information importante non seulement pour les femmes mais aussi pour les hommes qui veulent combattre la violence sexuelle et toutes les formes de violence contre les femmes.
Carole Crawford
Militante, travailleuse sociale et traductrice française de NO!
Kevin Powell’s Poem “NO!” Addresses Violence Against Women
May 1, 2008
NO!
for Aishah Shahidah Simmons
By Kevin Powell*
Will us boys ever learn that power
can’t be pulled from the meat of our third leg
like the last taste of malt liquor sucked from the
bottom of a bottle? Will we ever cease to find
our torsos slow-dragging with death, our dance
a series of grenades aimed at the bellies of our
mothers’ daughters? Will us boys ever break ranks
with the devil, his bible telling us it is mad cool
to rape women because the master does it, and
don’t we, too, yearn to be masters? Will we ever
be able to glue back the hair, unswell the eye,
dab away the blood, and stitch up the holes of the women
we have knifed, repeatedly, with our hatred and
fear? Will us boys ever be able to admit that
some of us have become predators, our prey the
neighbor, the girlfriend, the wife, the sister,
the niece, the granddaughter whose life is an
unguarded prison cell loaded with screams,
paranoia, and a body unsure why it now eats itself?
Friday, December 31, 1999
*Kevin Powell is a political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hiphop historian, public speaker, and entrepreneur. He is running, as a Democrat, for a seat in the United States Congress in the 10th Congressional District here in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
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