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Aishah Shahidah Simmons is a Black feminist lesbian survivor-healer, Dharma teacher, trauma-informed mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, and an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and cultural worker.

Rooted in more than three decades of cultural work and two decades of Vipassanā (Insight Meditation) practice, with over one year of cumulative silent retreat practice in the United States and India, Aishah offers Dharma teachings, guided meditations, mindfulness practices, and reflections grounded in compassion, clarity, healing, and collective liberation.

This channel features Dharma talks, guided meditations, mindfulness teachings, and curated playlists of Aishah’s cultural work, including the 2006 groundbreaking feature film, NO! The Rape Documentary, the 2019 FromNO2Love Conference, the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, and earlier films and public conversations.