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Survivor-Healer | Award-winning Filmmaker & Writer | Mindfulness Meditation Teacher

AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS

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ABOUT AISHAH

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian cultural worker who, for 30 years, has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. She is the editor of the the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press, 2019) and the director and producer of the 2006 groundbreaking film NO! The Rape Documentary. Aishah is a trauma-informed, certified Mindfulness meditation teacher who has been studying and practicing Theravada Buddhism for 21 years. Aishah spends her time writing, teaching, and traveling the world and, post covid, the internet speaking on healing from childhood and adult sexual trauma, non-carceral accountability for harm, and Mindfulness.

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ABOUT AISHAH

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian cultural worker who, for 30 years, has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. She is the editor of the the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press, 2019) and the director and producer of the 2006 groundbreaking film NO! The Rape Documentary. Aishah is a trauma-informed, certified Mindfulness meditation teacher who has been studying and practicing Theravada Buddhism for 21 years. Aishah spends her time writing, teaching, and traveling the world and, post covid, the internet speaking on healing from childhood and adult sexual trauma, non-carceral accountability for harm, and Mindfulness.

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NO! The Rape Documentary

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"[Aishah Shahidah Simmons’] political and artistic approach, which [simultaneously] questions the oppression of race, sex, gender, and class, seems relevant to make visible, at all levels, and mainly in the African American community, the violence against [Black] women, lesbians, and girls.”

—Amnesty International, French Section