AfroLez® Productions Reviews & Press | Aishah Shahidah Simmons | Violence Against Black Women
March 15th, 2008
Today’s Zaman
The color purple: Filmmore Women’s Film Festival begins today
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February 8th & 10th, 2008
SAFER (students active for ending rape) Blog
NO! A Documentary about Rape (parts 1 & 2)
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www.safercampus.org
Shout Out: Women of Color Respond To Violence
Maria Ochoa & Barbara K. Ige
Seal Press ©2008
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Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Linda Janet Holmes & Cheryl A. Wall, editors
Temple University Press ©2008
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Fall 2007
Ms. Magazine: 35th Anniversary Issue
Review of NO! The Rape Documentary
by Amy Williams
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Voices Carry
Aishah Shahidah Simmons joins the chorus of feminists who share about how Ms. Magazine has impacted our lives over the past 35 years.
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June 29, 2007
In These Times Magazine
Stories of Survival
By Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
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June 18, 2007
National Public Radio’s Tell Me More, with Michel Martin
Behind Closed Doors: NO!
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May 22, 2007
Pambazuka News: Weekly Forum for Social Justice in Africa
Review of NO! - A Film on Rape in the Black Community
by Marian Douglas
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May 14, 2007
Women’s Magazine Program on KPFA Radio
NO!: Confronting Sexual Assault in Our Community,
an interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
by Natasha Green; Co-hosted by Andrea Lewis
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April 10, 2007
Against the Grain Program on KPFA Radio
Black Is Not Enough: When Race, Gender and Sexuality Intersect;
A Conversation with Kenyon Farrow and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Hosted by C.S. Soong
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http://www.againstthegrain.org/
April/May 2007
Left Turn Magazine
Thoughts on Race, Gender, and Sexuality and the Black Left: A Roundtable Conversation with Kazembe Balagoon, Patrica Hemphill, Kenyon Farrow, Imani Henry and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
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April 15, 2007
But Some of Us Are Brave…
by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
http://philadelphia.indymedia.org/es/2007/04/38749.shtml
http://brownfemipower.com/?p=1249
http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/
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January - February 2007
COLORLINES Magazine
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, And Many of Us Have Been Raped: One Filmmaker Confronts Sexual Assault Against Black Women
by LaVon Rice
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January 27, 2007
Mixtape Show rap/hip-hop podcast
Aishah Shahidah Simmons interview on
DJ Drama/Don Cannon Arrest
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January 17, 2007
AllHipHop.com
Thirty Strong And A Gun To His Head…Pay Attention? (In Defense of My Brother Tyree Cinque Simmons/DJ DRAMA)
by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
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January 7, 2007
Alternet.org
Transforming Fear into Power: The Politicization of Child Sexual Abuse
By Ingrid Drake
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November 15, 2006
BlackAgendaReport.com
The Myth of Black Women’s Progress: A Conversation with Activist and Filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons
by Tamara K. Nopper
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November 15, 2006
The Hilltop
Moving Documentary Gets Students Talking About Rape
by Eboni Farmer
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November 14, 2006
The Hilltop
Movie Screening to Open Discussion on Rape
by Traver Riggins
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November 14, 2006
Tonight’s Top Stop: Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Read Express
by Tim Follos
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Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
South End Press © 2006
What would it take to end violence against women of color?
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November 10, 2006
The Washington Blade
Lesbian Filmmaker Says “NO!” to Silence
by Katherine Volin
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October/November 2006
Left Turn Magazine
Cinematic Activism
by Walidah Imarisha
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October 27 - November 2, 2006
Philadelphia Gay News
Local Lesbian Filmmaker says ‘NO’ to Violence
Jazmyn Burton
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October 11-17, 2006
Philadelphia Weekly
Editor’s Pick “NO!”
by Jazmyn Odokemi Burton
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October 6, 2006
The Philadelphia Tribune
Film Addresses Sexual Assault
by Janae Hoffer
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Spring 2006
The Black Scholar, Vol. 36, No.1
“Black Women’s Activism 2006″
Edited by Jennifer Hamer and Helen Neville
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Click here to download a pdf copy of Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ essay “No One Is Free While Others Are Oppressed: An AfroLezfemcentric Perspective.”
Fall 2006
Clamor Magazine, Issue 38
The Power of NO!: An Interview with Black Lesbian Filmmaker Aishah Shidah Simmons
by Tamara K. Nopper
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May 13 , 2006
Feministing.com
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Words on the Duke Rape Case
by Celina De Leon
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* This interview is also listed as a resource on the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence website.
May 2006
ITCOP E-News
Taking Care of Our Bodies,
Taking Care of Ourselves
by Debra Powell-Wright
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www.InTheCompanyOfPoets.com
April 14, 2006
PopMatters.com
(White) Male Privilege, Black Respectability, and Black Women’s Bodies
by Mark Anthony Neal
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February 2006
3BlackChicks.com
Cass’ Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
by Cassandra Henry
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