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Violence Against Women Testimonies afrolez 253 views http://www.NOtheRapeDocumentary.org NO! is a resource in the international movements to end rape and sexual assault globally. Focusing on date rape testimonies, NO! transce...
Violence Against Women Stories afrolez 304 views http://www.NOtheRapeDocumentary.org NO! The Rape Documentary is a resource in the global violence against women movement. Transcending ethnicity and nationality, NO! focuse...
Silence...Broken, an AfroLez Production afrolez 3,024 views Produced in 1993 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Silence...Broken is an experimental short about a Black lesbian's refusal to be silent about racism, sexism & homophobia. Featu...
Violence Against Women Stories afrolez 86 views http://www.NOtheRapeDocumentary.org NO! is an internationally acclaimed, that features violence against women stories/testimonials & expert analysis on ending violence agai...
For Women of Rage and Reason afrolez 780 views http://www.NOtheRapeDocumentary.org "The Way Out is to tell..." is the opening of this experimental short, which is dedicated to the LIVING LEGACY of Toni Cade Bambara, is ...
Rape Prevention Testimonial afrolez 1,747 views http://www.NotheRapeDocumentary.org Tools for rape prevention. Breaking Silences and NO! The Rape Documentary feature stories of rape survivors, activists, & scholars worki...
Domestic Violence Video Testimonial afrolez 1,815 views http://www.NotheRapeDocumentary.org Breaking Silences and NO! The Rape Documentary feature testimonies and expert account on solutions working towards ending sexual assault...
Sexual Assault Group Curriculum Testimonial afrolez 301 views http://www.NotheRapeDocumentary.org NO! Breaking Silences and NO! The Rape Documentary feature testimonies and expert account on solutions working towards sexual assault pr...
NO! The Rape Documetary Testimonial afrolez 352 views http://www.NotheRapeDocumentary.org NO! The Rape Documentary & Breaking Silences and feature testimonies and expert account on solutions working towards sexual assault prev...
Date Rape Stories Testimonial afrolez 3,670 views http://www.NotheRapeDocumentary.org Date rape stories are never easy to hear. Breaking Silences and NO! The Rape Documentary feature testimonies and expert account on solut...

About AfroLez® Productions & NO! The Rape Documentary

NO! The Rape Documentary and Breaking Silences are films produced by AfroLez® Productions. Aishah Shahidah Simmons is a filmmaker, lecturer, producer, and activist.

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning African-American feminist lesbian independent documentary filmmaker, television and radio producer, published writer, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. In 1992, Aishah founded AfroLez® Productions, an AfroLez®femcentric multimedia arts company committed to using the moving image, the written and spoken word to address those issues which have a negative impact on marginalized and disenfranchised people. Coined in 1990 by Aishah, AfroLez®femcentric defines the culturally conscious role of Black women who identify as Afrocentric, lesbian, and feminist. For three years she co-produced two monthly public television programs for a PBS affiliate in Philadelphia. Her internationally acclaimed short videos Silence...Broken and In My Father's House, explore the issues of race, gender, homophobia, rape, and misogyny.

An incest and rape survivor, she spent eleven years, seven of which were full time, to produce/write/direct NO! The Rape Documentary. Winner of an audience choice award and a juried award at the San Diego Women's Film Festival, NO! is a Black feminist educational organizing tool, which is being used in the global movement to end violence against women and children. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center-the comprehensive center for information, research, and emerging policy on sexual violence intervention and prevention in the United States--designated screenings and discussions of NO! in community settings as the Featured Event during their 2007 Sexual Assault Awareness Month Campaign.

Ms. Simmons has screened her work and facilitated workshops to educate about and heal from sexual violence; and the process of making grassroots social change documentaries to racially to racially and ethnically diverse audiences at international film festivals, colleges and universities, high schools, conferences, rape crisis centers, battered women shelters, community centers, juvenile correctional facilities, and government sponsored events across the United States, Hungary, Croatia, France, Italy, The Netherlands, England, South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, and Spain. She is the author of numerous essays, some of which have been translated into French and Italian, all of which are featured in anthologies and journals in the United States and internationally.

Ms. Simmons is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2007 International Federation of Black Prides Award; the 2007 Institute on Domestic Violence in the African-American Community Media Award; the 2006 D.C. Rape Crisis Center's Visionary Award; a 2006 grant from the Ford Foundation to support the international educational marketing and distribution of NO!; National Sexual Violence Resource Center 's 2006 National Award for Outstanding Response to and Prevention of Sexual Violence; Leeway Foundation's 2005 Transformation Award; an Artist-in-Residency at Spelman College's Digital Moving Image Salon; and several production/post production grants from the Valentine Foundation, the Bread and Roses Community Fund, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, the Women's Way Discretionary Fund, and the Gloria Steinem Fund of the Ms. Foundation for Women.

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