Podcasts about aishah shahidah simmons

Episode #205: In a world where representation and diversity are more critical than ever, Aishah Shahidah Simmons unveils the little known story of Dr. Leon Wright, a remarkable African-American professor who served as the US Cultural Attaché in Rangoon from 1955-57, and who was authorized to teach meditation by the great meditation master, Sayagyi U Ba Khin.Aishah's own quest for representation within meditation traditions dovetailed perfectly with her discovery of Wright, a hidden gem in the history of vipassana meditation. His story is one of resilience, achievement, and a testament to the possibility of breaking barriers in a deeply segregated era. Wright's journey from orphanhood to becoming a distinguished professor and diplomat is nothing short of inspiring, and his work with meditation, spirituality and healing at a time in American culture when none of these were commonplace makes his story all the more unique and compelling.Aishah notes how Wright's accomplishments predate the Civil Rights movement, challenging the notion of who could excel in a world divided by racial prejudice. And she wonders why Wright's unique and amazing story is so little known today.. Her journey to discover and share this hidden legacy has been a deeply personal and spiritual experience. “I feel like Reverend Dr. Wright is very much with me, and I feel very close to his spirit,” Aishah says in closing. “I have a lot of gratitude for Reverend Dr. Leon Wright, and for Sayagyi U Ba Khin, just tremendous gratitude in terms of my practice, and thinking about all of the all the ways that he's influenced me. I feel like I'm a part of that cycle or sphere of energy that came from U Ba Khin, which obviously came from people who proceed from U Ba Khin as well.”

In this episode, Eric sits down with renowned author Peter J. Harris. They discuss his early beginnings; from having been born in Washington D.C, studying journalism at Howard University to eventually pursuing a career as a writer. They discuss his personal life and how he first developed an interest in poetry — meeting influential artists and master poets who inspired him. How poetry served as a vehicle to express himself in order to explore social and personal ideas… and cultivating his own voice as an a writer. His journey as a published author, creating both fictional and non-fiction work and the challenges he's had to face and overcome along the way. They discuss The Black Man of Happiness Project; a creative, intellectual and artistic exploration that seeks to answer one elemental question: What is a happy Black man?… that examines the state of joy, dignity and happiness that exists in African American life and history in the face of adversity. The various books he has authored and what he has in store for the future!For more visit: www.ericsperspective.comGuest Bio: Peter J. Harris is a graduate of Howard University. He is the author of various books, including Safe Arms: 20 Love & Erotic Poems (w/an Ooh Baby Baby moan) (FlowerSong Press, 2022), featuring Spanish translations by Francisco Letelier ; SongAgain (Beyond Baroque Books, 2022); Bless the Ashes (Tia Chucha Press, 2014), which won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award; The Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My Unalienable Right (The Black Man of Happiness Project, 2014), winner of the American Book Award; and Hand Me My Griot Clothes: The Autobiography of Junior Baby (Black Classic Press, 1993), winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award. Harris and his daughter, Adenike A. Harris, are contributors to Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press, 2019), edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Harris is the founding director of The Black Man of Happiness Project and writes the blog Wreaking Happiness: A Joyful Living Journal. Harris is a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern California, a 2023 artist in residence at The Nicholson Project in Washington, D.C., and was the 2018 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellow in literary arts. Since 1992, Harris has been a member of the Anansi Writers Workshop at the World Stage in Los Angeles's Leimert Park. A native of Washington, D.C., Harris lives in Altadena, California, where he serves as Altadena's poet laureate editor in chief through 2024, alongside Carla Sameth, who is Altadena's poet laureate for community events.  About Eric's Perspective: A podcast series on African American art with Eric Hanks — African American art specialist, owner of the renowned M. Hanks Gallery and commissioner on the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; offers his perspective on African American art through in-depth conversations with fellow art enthusiasts where they discuss the past, present & future of African American art.For more on Eric's Perspective, visit www.ericsperspective.com#ERICSPERSPECTIVE #AFRICANAMERICAN #ART SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2vVJkDn LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2B6wB3USpotify: https://spoti.fi/3j6QRmWGoogle Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fNNgrYiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/2KtYGXv Pandora: https://pdora.co/38pFWAmConnect with us ONLINE: Visit Eric's Perspective website: https://bit.ly/2ZQ41x1Facebook: https://bit.ly/3jq5fXPInstagram: https://bit.ly/39jFZxGTwitter: https://bit.ly/2OMRx33 www.mhanksgallery.com

Despite survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it's a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. I'll be in conversation on today's show with documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who's book Love WITH Accountability invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal legal system. Learn more about Aishah Simmons' work here: https://linktr.ee/afrolez — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Accountability for Sexual Violence Away from the Criminal Legal System w/ Aishah Simmons appeared first on KPFA.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian cultural worker who has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence for over 25-years. A survivor of childhood and adult sexual violence committed to healing and non-carceral accountability, Aishah is the editor of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (A.K. Press), and the producer/director of the 2006- released, Ford Foundation-funded film, NO! The Rape Documentary. Aishah has received numerous awards and fellowships, including selection for the 2022 Changemakers Authors Cohort and a 2020 Soros Media Fellowship. She is a 20-year Buddhist student and practitioner, formerly in the S.N. Goenka tradition for 17-years and presently in the Insight tradition.  

In this week's episode, Claire and Katie sit down with Aishah Shahidah Simmons to discuss her survivorship, and the trauma and healing that would develop her artistic voice. Aishah's lived experiences as a survivor of childhood and adult sexual violence, a Black feminist lesbian, and a long-term Buddhist practitioner inform the creation of her work. Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is the creator of the 2006 groundbreaking Ford Foundation-funded film, NO! The Rape Documentary, and the editor of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse.  Presently, she is a Soros Media Fellow completing her trilogy of cultural work that uses storytelling as a praxis to heal from, disrupt, and end sexual violence without relying on the carceral state. Hosts: Katie Koestner and Claire Kaplan Editor: Kelsey Styles Producers: Kelsey Styles and Emily Wang  

This week we re-air an interview done with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who is a writer, community organizer, prison abolitionist, and cultural worker who has done just an immense amount of work over the years to help disrupt and end the patterns of sexual abuse and assault within marginalized communities. In this interview we talk about a lot of things, her background and how she came to be doing the work shes doing right now, how better to think about concepts like accountability, what doing this work has been like for her as an out lesbian woman, and about her book Love WITH Accountability, Digging Up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse which was published in 2019 from AK Press. This interview feels very important right now, because we are in a time of overturn, tumult, stress, and uncertainty, and I think that in order for us to really be able to knuckle down and go in this for the long haul itll be imperative for our radical communities to take solid care of ourselves and of each other. I hope you get as much out of hearing Aishah's words as I did conducting and editing this interview. Before we get started, as a content notice: we will be talking about some difficult topics in this interview. I will do my best to repeat this notice at regular intervals, but please do take care and treat yourself kindly (however that looks). To keep up with Aishah, for updates on future projects and more: @lovewithaccountability Instagram @afrolez on Twitter Love WITH Accountability FaceBook page Aishah Shahidah Simmons Cultural Worker FaceBook page To support our guest, in a time where much if not all of her income is in peril: PayPal: to Afro Lez Productions Venmo: @afrolez CashApp: $AfroLez Some more ways you can see our guest's past work: NO! The Rape Documentary, streaming for $1 on her website Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from within the Anti-Violence Movement book that she is in. No Name Book Club where Love WITH Accountability was picked as one of the books for March. https://lovewithaccountability.com And so many more links on her website! . ... . .. Featured Tracks: Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 1 (mixing by William) Clutchy Hopkins – LAUGHING JOCKEY – Story Teller 2012

Pops'nAde bow down to an amazing project and turn of phrase: LoveWITHAccountability as they conversate with founder Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Our guest Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian cultural worker, who, for over 25-years, has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. Her creative work, published writings, international lectures, and independent scholarship are informed by her lived experiences as a child sexual abuse survivor, adult rape survivor, and Buddhist practitioner committed to healing, accountability and compassionate justice. The #LoveWITHAccountability® Project emerged from Aishah’s personal incest healing work. Demanding a conversation with her divorced parents about their lack of response to her being sexually abused as a child, Aishah signed "Love WITH Accountability" in virtually every communiqué to them. In doing so, Aishah emphasized that her deep love for her parents could not shield their lack of accountability for the sexual violence she endured as child. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popsnade/message

"Welcome to #LoveWITHAccountability® where we center diasporic Black survivors, and focus on radical healing and accountability. It is possible to disrupt and end the inhumane scourge of childhood sexual abuse and adult rape, humanely. Survivor-centered healing and accountability without relying on policing and prisons is love and radical justice." Love with Accountability UCI CARE provides free and confidential support services to members of the UCI community who have been impacted by sexual assault, relationship abuse, family violence, and/or stalking. Programs and services are available to people of all identities and regardless of status. UCI CARE aims to end these forms of power-based personal violence by engaging the campus community in education, programming, and transformative action. UCI CARE care@uci.edu (949) 824-7273 After Hour Support: You can find information about resources, options, or programs online at www.care.uci.edu or http://soinfo.uci.edu; by phone at (949) 824-7273; or, through social media on Facebook or Instagram (ucicare). Additionally, the following resources are available to provide assistance: 1) UCI Counseling Center at (949) 824-6457 offers 24 hour access to counselors by phone. 2) Waymakers' 24-hour hotline at (949) 831-9110 (South OC) or (714) 957-2737 (North OC) provides resources & referrals for survivors of sexual assault. 3) Human Options 24-hour hotline at (877) 854-3594 provides resources, safety and support for individuals experiencing relationship abuse. 4) Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity (OEOD) at (949) 824-5594 provides information about filing a criminal complaint or pursuing a complaint through the campus disciplinary process as well as resource information. 5) The UCI Police Department at (949) 824-5223 is available to take reports 24 hours a day. 6) Please call 911 if there is an immediate threat to safety. Other resources: RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) (800) 656-4673 (HOPE) Suicide Prevention Hotline (800) 273-8255 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode of History You Should Know, we learn about Aishah Shahidah Simmons, a survivor,  filmmaker and an award-winning Black feminist lesbian cultural worker, who, for over 25-years, has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. Learn more: The Story of SNCC Imagine Otherwise: Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Black Feminist Anti-Violence Activism Making the Revolution Irresistible: An Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons NO! The Rape Documentary Love WITH Accountability How Can We End Child Sexual Abuse Without Prisons? #FromNO2Love Videos @AfroLez Link Tree Visit www.pcar.org/podcasts for show notes and transcripts. 

Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s award-winning cultural work expresses its voice through the art of documentary filmmaking, writing, teaching, public speaking and activism. Her work is informed by her lived experiences as a Black feminist lesbian, a child sexual abuse survivor, an adult rape survivor and a Buddhist practitioner.  She is the producer/director of the 2006 groundbreaking, acclaimed film, NO! The Rape Documentary and the organizer/editor of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press). The anthology Aishah is presently working on the third part of three survivor-centered cultural works that seeks to disrupt and end childhood sexual abuse and adult rape in Black communities. Aishah is also in a two-year training to become a certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher as a continuation of her 18-year Buddhist practice. In this gathering, Aishah shares her wisdom about:   Growing up Black, Sufi Muslim and vegan, while attending Quaker schools in the Black power movement.   Her young adult spiritual journey leading to a 18-year Buddhist spiritual practice.   How + why she left the Vipassana practice after 18-years.     Creating her documentary masterpiece, "NO! The Rape Documentary".     Why she doesn't push forgiveness or bypassing rage.     How she honors her rage with meditation.   And soooo much more! Find Aishah online: NO! The Rape Documentary Love WITH Accountability @Lovewithaccountability @AfroLez [Instagram] AfroLez [Twitter]   Resources mentioned in this gathering: Vipassana meditation Spirit Rock — Insight Meditation Center.   If you loved this episode, send me a DM on Instagram at @lerinalta with your favorite parts of the conversation because I’d love to hear from you! Contribute to Black Girl Mystic Podcast Portal:​ Patreon — Become a monthly patron + join the Black Girl Mystic Inner Circle starting at just $1/month! patreon.com/blackgirlmystic. PayPal — Make a one-time donation paypal.me/blackgirlmystic Venmo: lerin-alta Connect on the socials:​ YouTube — Black Girl Mystic IG — Black Girl Mystic #blackgirlmystic FB — Black Girl Mystic Twitter — lerin Please subscribe, rate + leave a 5-star review

Rosalie Fish is a young woman from the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn, Washington. She is a member of the Cowlitz and Muckleshoot Tribes and a competitive runner who races for the countless missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). In the spring of 2019, Rosalie qualified for 4 events in the Class 1B Washington State Track Meet, painted a red handprint over her mouth, and dedicated each race to a missing or murdered indigenous woman from her reservation. She would go on to win 3 events, and come in 2nd in the 4th. Rosalie has since taken her activism to the college level, as she balances school and collegiate running with traveling and speaking about MMIW and other injustices against native people. Learn more about Rosalie: Instagram: @rosaliefishx Rosalie's Ted Talk "Rosalie Fish is Running to End Violence Against Indigenous Women," Off the Cuff Also discussed in this episode: Rosalie's high school state meet dedication Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel: podcast episode on Running on Om Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 Urban Indian Health Institute study: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Restore Indigenous Sovereignty Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Foreword by Darnell L. Moore --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/socialsport/support

This is a very different kind of show than any previous episode we've brought you on the Insight Myanmar Podcast. Regular listeners may remember that a few months ago, we interrupted our usual run of sit-down interviews to produce a special series on the coronavirus pandemic in Myanmar. In these episodes, we checked in with a number of monastics and practitioners, and inquired how they as meditators were coping with the world shutting down. As we were working to respond to the relevancy of that moment— itself no easy task for a skeleton crew volunteer team— another historic moment engulfed the United States and resonated with people around the world: the Black Lives Matter protests over of the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. We feel the need is just as compelling to meet the demands of this moment as our recent podcast series, and so we are creating a new collection of episodes called “the Intersection of Dhamma & Race.” In this series, we are widening the scope of our usual programming to examine the overlapping lines of Dhamma practice, racism and social justice. Aishah Shahidah Simmons, a long-term Black American vipassana meditator formerly in the S.N. Goenka tradition and an award-winning cultural worker, joins our volunteer team as co-producer of this series. The United States has been witnessing an explosion of multiracial bravery inspired and led by Black individuals speaking truth to power, standing up against racism and for social justice, and within many different social and economic institutions, from well-known sports franchises to giant corporations. While these acts may at times be confrontational, they highlight uncomfortable and too-long-ignored truths that societies must finally face, both people as individuals, and collectively. In this same spirit, we hope that the following episode can be a platform for bringing a similar sort of conversation about entrenched biases, practices and attitudes within the vipassana and mindfulness communities. The guests include: ·     Victoria Robertson is the first Black American appointed Senior Assistant Teacher under S. N. Goenka. She speaks about her time attending and conducting vipassana courses in this tradition; how she learned to develop empathy for others; her observation that the White vipassana teachers were equipped to teach meditation, but weren't able to apply those meditation practices to address racism; her leadership role in creating the one and only Global African Heritage course to date in this tradition, and the organization's unwillingness to support her attempts to bring Dhamma to Black communities in inner cities. She is no longer a teacher in this tradition. ·     Joshua Bee Alafia is a Taoist and Insight Meditation Teacher, as well as an author and film director. He notes how the mindfulness community naturally mirrors the issues and complexes, including racism, that American society at large struggles with. He believes we will look back at this current time as the “Great Awakening” in American society, and that compassion and inner reflection are now sorely needed, because it takes courage to heal as individuals and by extension a society. ·     Wayne Smith is a professional cellist and a long-course vipassana student in the tradition of S.N. Goenka. Determined not to become bitter as a result of racism, his early meditation experiences brought him in touch with the ill will building up inside nonetheless—and taught him how it could be observed and let go of. He feels it is critical for White people to look clearly at their own white privilege and identify their involvement in perpetuating a racist system even by just passively participating in it. He finds meditation a valuable tool for this effort, as well as engaging in conversation and interaction across communities. If you would like to support our mission, we welcome your contribution.... Support this podcast

This week I am very excited to present an interview done with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who is a writer, community organizer, prison abolitionist, and cultural worker who has done just an immense amount of work over the years to help disrupt and end the patterns of sexual abuse and assault within marginalized communities. In this interview we talk about a lot of things, her background and how she came to be doing the work she's doing right now, how better to think about concepts like ‘accountability', what doing this work has been like for her as an out lesbian woman, and about her book “Love WITH Accountability, Digging Up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse” which was published in 2019 from AK Press. This interview feels very important for me right now, because we are in a time of overturn, tumult, stress, and uncertainty, and I think that in order for us to really be able to knuckle down and go in this for the long haul it'll be imperative for our radical communities to take solid care of ourselves and of each other. I hope you get as much out of hearing Aishah's words as I did conducting and editing this interview. Before we get started, as a content notice: we will be talking about some difficult topics in this interview. I will do my best to repeat this notice at regular intervals, but please do take care and treat yourself kindly, however that looks for you. If you are interested in seeing more work from Aishah, visit our blogpost or scroll down to the show notes! We will post all the links in those places. If you are interested in reading her book, Love WITH Accountability, AK Press is doing a limited time sale on all their books on their website. Visit akpress.org for more info. To help support community bookstores at this time of greater economic precarity for such places, consider visiting our affiliates Firestorm Books, who are currently doing online sales from their brick and mortar location. More about how to order at firestorm.coop! To keep up with Aishah, for updates on future projects and more: @lovewithaccountability Instagram @afrolez on Twitter Love WITH Accountability FaceBook page Aishah Shahidah Simmons Cultural Worker FaceBook page To support our guest, in a time where much if not all of her income is in peril: PayPal: Afro Lez Productions Venmo: @afrolez Some more ways you can see our guest's past work: NO! The Rape Documentary, streaming for $1 on her website Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from within the Anti-Violence Movement book that she is in. No Name Book Club where Love WITH Accountability was picked as one of the books for March. https://lovewithaccountability.com And so many more links on her website! . … . .. Music for this show by: Philip Glass – Metamorphosis 1 (mixing by William) Clutchy Hopkins – LAUGHING JOCKEY – Story Teller 2012

Being Out Here For The Prisoners in NC / Mesh Networks This week we feature two portions to this podcast bonus, two abolitionists in North Carolina talk about detention issues during and after Covid-19. Then Grant Gallo of Sudo Mesh talks about community mesh data networks and alternative infrastructure for autonomy. For a radio edition of this for broadcast, reach out to us at our email. Our main broadcasting segment for this week is an interview William did with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, the editor of love WITH accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press, 2019) which will be available soon for download by participating stations and in our podcast stream. Incarceration in NC First we'll hear from two prison activists based in the Durham and Asheville, North Carolina about critical situations around incarceration in this state including but not limited to the Covid-19 outbreak. Jules is a member of Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross, a local abolitionist group that works around popular education around incarceration and anti-repression for movement work.  Katie is an anarchist legal and anti-prison activist. NLG Guide To Your Rights During Covid-19 Pandemic. Covid-19 Prison zine by BRABC Regional groups working on this to keep an eye on include: Empty Cages Collective NC Resists NC Women's Prison Books Project Siembra NC Southerners On New Ground Project South Blue Ridge ABC Instagram / Facebook WNC Anarchist Twitter Peer-To-Peer Digital Infrastructure After that, you'll hear Grant Gallow from Sudo Mesh talk about Peoples Open Network and Disaster Radio. We'll hear about collaborative, community mesh network projects as peer-to-peer internet in general and about the idea behind Disaster Radio, a minimalist digital messaging system in case the cellphone, landline or power grid goes down in a dire circumstances. You can find out more at the website, disaster.radio NC Prison Phone Zaps Statewide: https://brabc.blackblogs.org/2020/03/22/phone-zap-for-north-carolina-prisoners/ Durham County Jail: https://twitter.com/NCResists/status/1242938703871442947?s=20 Various Other Prison Phone Zaps By Region of Turtle Island The following is an incomplete list. Stay tuned to ItsGoingDown.org for a more up-to-date and comprehensive listing of ongoing phone zaps and campaigns Pacific Northwest WA https://twitter.com/COVID_MutualAid/status/1242521808940777475 https://twitter.com/PugetSupport/status/1242492820868358144 Portland, OR https://twitter.com/carenotcops/status/1242558135480365058 Central Colorado https://brabc.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/338/2020/03/Colorado-Prison-Report-03_26_2020.pdf Midwest Chicago, IL https://twitter.com/AssataDaughters/status/1242474665358110720 Wisconsin https://twitter.com/notcolloquial/status/1242871504871854082 Michigan https://twitter.com/MI_Abolition/status/1242471208270036992 https://huronvalleycovid19.wixsite.com/demands/action https://fight-toxic-prisons.org/2020/03/12/macomb-ci-coronavirus-phone-zap/ (Macombe CI) Northeast New York https://twitter.com/FreeThemAll2020/status/1242827148588613638 (NYC) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l5n3CxSjPUuINOsPi51rks8g-Os-WUVmLOfa8s5AaHg/ (NYC) https://twitter.com/FreeThemAll2020/status/1243576540056768516?s=20 (NYC) https://twitter.com/SurlyNotAWalrus/status/1242492126950313984 (NYC) New Jersey https://twitter.com/NiMaitresses/status/1242716926964649984 PA https://twitter.com/ariteer/status/1242849157167173634 (you gotta look at the link in the twitter for this one) South GA, NC, SC ICE call-in https://twitter.com/ashahshahani/status/1243215788191997960?s=20 Alabama https://fight-toxic-prisons.org/2020/03/26/alabama-department-of-corrections-covid19-phone-zap/ protest/suicide threat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/ice-detainees-threaten-suicide-stage-protests-over-coronavirus-fears/2020/03/25/8232738e-0b1e-4fdb-8538-456e269a8eb7_video.html Georgia https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/headlines (headline about hunger strikes, not a call-in link) Virginia https://home.baltimoreiww.org/news/tell-governor-northam-and-the-virginia-department-of-health-that-release-is-the-only-way-forward https://www.facebook.com/events/1910024005789095/ Louisiana https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/03/26/icedetaineeshungerstrike/ Florida https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-ice-detainees-on-hunger-strike-amid-coronavirus-11607507 (article about hunger strikes in ICE custody, not a call-in link) https://twitter.com/iwoc_gnv/status/1242875691315671049 NC https://brabc.blackblogs.org/2020/03/22/phone-zap-for-north-carolina-prisoners/ https://twitter.com/NCResists/status/1242938703871442947?s=20 (Durham County Jail) so-called Canada Quebec https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/939v7v/laval-quebec-immigration-detainees-are-on-a-hunger-strike-over-coronavirus-fears (article only) Announcements BRABC Remote Film Night From the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/503825183570471/ Join us for a film screening and discussion of the short documentary film “Condemned,” which tells the story of Bomani Shakur (or Keith Lamar) who is on death row for five murders he did not commit or play any part in during the 1993 Lucasville Prison uprising. Bomani was recently scheduled for execution in November, 2023. His many advocates and loved ones called for a month of action in April to publicize the biased legal process that led to Bomani's conviction, involving gross prosecutorial misconduct including failure to provide exculpatory evidence during discovery as required by law. ** A link will be posted in the facebook event on the day of the screening that people can click to join at the event start time! ** After the film we'll hold a discussion including how people can support Bomani in continuing to fight for his life. For more information about Bomani and his case: – https://www.keithlamar.org/condemned – https://www.revolutionaryabolition.org/news/month-of-action-for-bomani/ . ... . .. playlist

I don't know if the numbers of child sexual abuse are getting higher or just that we're more aware of the crisis and there's more reporting. I had an important conversation with a survivor and award winning filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons who has edited a new book of essays called love with accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse.https://www.lovewithaccountability.com/anthology

Welcome to Insight a show about empowering our community. I'm Loraine Ballard Morrill. Crazy weather – right. Downpours, wind storms, sunshine, frost – if you're bored with the weather just wait a few hours. In any case hope you're having a wonderful morning despite the weather. There are a lot of kids who aren't ready for the cold that's coming this winter. I speak with Tyree Williams about a cool program called Project Cold War Coat Drive sponsored by https://1stnotnext.com/ that provides brand new coats for the boys and girls who need them. 1st Not Next is sponsoring a fundraising brunch Sunday 11-9 from 11 am to 4 pm at the Discovery Center 3401 Reservoir Drive. I don't know if the numbers of child sexual abuse are getting higher or just that we're more aware of the crisis and there's more reporting. I had an important conversation with a survivor and award winning filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons who has edited a new book of essays called love with accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse.https://www.lovewithaccountability.com/anthology First up – there are some great film festivals in the city like Blackstar and the upcoming Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. I spoke with Festival Director Rob Buscher about the event which takes place November 7-17th celebrating and elevating the Asian American experience.https://phillyasianfilmfest.org/

Aishah Shahidah Simmons is a black feminist lesbian activist and documentary filmmaker devoted to ending sexual violence without relying on the criminal justice system. A survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of a family member, her latest project is an anthology arriving fall 2019 called “Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse,” which includes transformative storytelling by 40 diasporic black voices. Her 2006 film, ‘NO! The Rape Documentary,’ broke taboos that hid heterosexual rape and sexual assault in African-American communities and continues to be used as a teaching tool around the world. In this conversation she puts films like ‘Leaving Neverland’ and ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ into context, exploring the cult of family, enabler culture, and America’s foundational lineage of rape. She shares her personal experience with sexual assault and the practices that have helped her navigate the deep and challenging work of learning to hold herself and her loved ones accountable for the harm they have caused in order to break deep cycles of suffering. You can read and watch more of Aishah’s work at www.notherapedocumentary.org and www.lovewithaccountability.com, and connect with her on instagram @afrolez. More podcasts where podcasts are found and at maurajames.com. [“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” - Nina Simone]

Aishah Shahidah Simmons survived incest and sexual abuse. She is a self-described Black feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker. Then, we talk to writer Amanda Rosenberg, who survived a suicide attempt and says hiding her mental illness from her family almost killed her. We also describe both as badasses who took their trauma and created art from it. Family members telling you to hide your feelings because they say they don’t want to deal with you? Now that’s mental. Links from today’s episode! Aishah’s film, NO! The Rape Documentary, is available online or as a DVD.Learn more about #LoveWithAccountabilityYou can also read more about Ashiah’s intersectional approaches to her activism.You can read Amanda’s Vox article and learn more about the “model minority” myth.You can also visit Amanda’s website for more. We're sponsored by Harry's and you could be, too! Get your set at Harrys.com/SURVIVOR

Welcome to part 2 of a 2-part conversation with Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100). This week, Healing and Safety Council members JeNaè Taylor & Kai M Green join us to talk about interventional healing and accountability practices - aka what to do when harm occurs in our organizations. They share about how they’ve built out intentional practices that anticipate potential harm, how they use role plays and scenarios to come to agreements and processes together before situations happen, and their commitment to supporting and including harm-doers in their restorative processes. Check out episode and practice 26 to hear our first conversation with BYP100, where we talked with (P) Ife Williams and Chris Roberts about preventional practices for healing and accountability. Download the corresponding practice (27 Practice: Compartmentalizing in a Healthy Way) to join JeNaè Taylor for a simple but powerful personal practice to address conflict on your own timeline. Practice episodes always publish on Thursdays. --- We need your help to fund this volunteer project! Please help cover our costs by becoming a monthly sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice or giving a one time gift at our brand new donation link here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb --- FEATURED IN THIS CONVERSATION: “Stay Woke, Stay Whole: A Black Activist Healing Manual” (1st edition), BYP100 Healing and Safety Council’s internal manual (not currently available to the public) “Love With Accountability” documentary filmmaker Aishah Shahidah Simmons http://www.lovewithaccountability.com/about-aishah/   ABOUT OUR GUESTS BYP100’s Healing and Safety Council is a body of members dedicated to cultivating and supporting self-determined forms of healing, cultural production, and harm reduction. HSC exercises the conceptual tenants of the Healing Justice Framework; HSC activates this work through [a] Creative Healing Praxis which is focused on prevention, intervention, and transformation. This looks like the creation and provision of an ongoing base of preventative care modules, community based intervention to interpersonal conflict or violence, and transformative ritual through culture creation and visioning. More about BYP100: https://byp100.org/ Je Naé Taylor is a daughter of medicine folx and firefighters, and is living as a Black girl storyteller, shapeshifter and visionary. Je Naé is most curious about the practice of joy and the sustenance needed to live extraordinary. Kai M Green is a Black trans educator, poet, and filmmaker from Deep East Oakland. Both Je Naé and Kai have been core members of the Healing & Safety Council of BYP100 since 2015.-- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org    Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter   This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice or giving a one time gift here https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb Please leave a positive rating & review in whatever app you are listening - it all makes a difference!   THANK YOU to all our production volunteers: Content editing by Sonja HansonMixing and production by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

“How do you move beyond sharing about your trauma to healing it?” asks our guest Aishah. What say you? #LoveWITHAccountability - http://LoveWITHAccountability.com NO! The Rape Documentary - http://NOtheRapeDocumentary.org Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective - https://batjc.wordpress.com The Living Bridges Project - http://LivingBridgesProject.com The Heal Project - https://www.igrivera.com/the-heal-project.html Children of Combahee - http://childrenofcombahee.org/ Black Latinidad: Love in Sisterbrotherhood - https://www.vidaafrolatina.org/child-sexual-abuse Mirror Memoirs - http://mirrormemoirs.com Impact Justice - http://impactjustice.org/restorative-justice-project For more support in decolonizing your mind, including online classes, check out https://liberationspring.com. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiberationSpring twitter: https://twitter.com/libspring youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKskexpXNUKU1O16qWxL0Sw instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberationspring

Recently widespread outrage has erupted over the bias and leniency in court decisions involving rape and the general acceptance and prevalence of violence against women. In California, a judge's decision to give a white former Stanford University swimmer an unusually lenient six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious Stanford student sparked a campaign to have him removed after the victims stomach churning impact statement went viral. The outrage of women has succeed in forcing Judge Aaron Persky to give up his docket of criminal cases. This is just one of the many cases of sexual assault that women have been protesting in the media garnering widespread attention and also raising the issue of how race and class influences sexual assault decisions. Another incident which Black feminists have taken the lead in debating is the alleged sexual assault by actor and director Nate Parker 17 years ago, which came to the attention of the media after his recent remarks about the victims suicide while promoting his new film “Birth of Nation” about the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner, a film which had been destined for an Oscar. Today we talk about that case and how class and race intersect with issues of sexual assault with  African American Lesbian Feminist filmmaker and writer Aishah Shahidah Simmons.  Simmons directed the groundbreaking film “No! The Rape Documentary.” The post Sexual Violence against women appeared first on KPFA.

How can artists engage with the academy to share cultural work and activism? How is education a form of activism? In episode 14 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker and cultural producer Aishah Shahidah Simmons about her award-winning film NO!: The Rape Documentary, collaboration as key to feminist work, and how every one of us can play a part in ending violence in our communities. Show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/14-aishah-shahidah-simmons

Robin spotlights the courage of international teen girl activists, the failed promise of the once-novel idea of 24-hour cable news, and the history and impact of the word "ms." Guests are Maysoun Odeh, founder of the first women's FM radio station in Palestine; Aishah Shahidah Simmons on her "NO! The Rape Documentary," and on the life and legacy of Audre Lorde; Ellie Smeal on the 40th anniversary of Ms. Magazine; and Kathleen Turner on playing the late wit, Molly Ivins, in Red Hot Patriots.

Mark Anthony Neal is join in the studio by Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her father, Michael Simmons. Later, Mark speaks with Meta DuEwa Jones about her new book, Muse is Music.

Mark Anthony Neal talks with film director, Aishah Shahidah Simmons about black female filmmakers and sexual violence. Later, Mark is joined by Zaheer Ali to talk about Manning Marable's last book, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention".

Welcome to NO! The Rape Documentary website where we are committed to ending rape, sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women. For more information, please go to: Break The Silence, Stop All Forms of Sexual Violence Almost since the conception of the idea/vision for the feature length documentary that has evolved into NO!, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor, has been on the international road raising awareness about rape, sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women; and the critical non-negotiable need to end it. Little did she know that her vision and her commitment would be tested over and over and over again on multiple seen and unseen levels. Nor did she know that it would take a full 13-years before her full vision would wo/manifest. "...Aishah Shahidah Simmons, producer, writer, and director of NO! The Rape Documentary, boldly confronts the scourge of racial, gender, and sexual oppression, and its violent manifestations. Simmons, who understands the power of mass media, almost single-handedly put together a film that utilizes individual testimonials, scholarship, spirituality, activism, and culture to bring the reality of rape and other forms of sexual and physical abuse to the forefront of public conversation." --Thomas Burrell, Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority, © 2010, Smiley Books-- View The Trailers For NO! & Breaking Silences Listen To What People Are Saying About These Resources Across The United States & Internationally This Portuguese, French, and Spanish subtitled, feature-length, internationally acclaimed, award-winning documentary, its two-hour supplemental educational video, and the accompanying 100-page study guide explore the international realities of rape, sexual assault and other forms of violence against women through the first person testimonies, scholarship, spirituality, activism and cultural work of African-Americans. They are being used globally in grassroots and mainstream movements to end rape, sexual assault, and other forms of violence against women. We invite you to join Aishah in her work to end rape, sexual assault, and other forms of gender-based violence globally.

NO! is a Black feminist educational organizing tool, which is being used in the global movement to end violence against women and children. Since its official release in 2006, NO! has been screened and distributed to racially and ethnically diverse audiences at: ¦film festivals ¦community centers ¦colleges/universities ¦high schools ¦correctional facilities ¦rape crisis centers ¦battered women's shelters ¦conferences throughout the United States, in Canada, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Peru, Colom