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Aishah Shahidah Simmons

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an American documentary filmmaker, author, educator, and activist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Her 2006 film, NO! The Rape Documentary, addressed sexual assault in the black community, a topic that has, according to Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell "traditionally been so attuned to racism outside that it has largely turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to gender violence within."[1] In a review of NO!, Andrea Williams described the documentary as "notable, not only for its critical exposition, but also for the ways in which it places Black women's voices at the center of its narrative."[2]

Career

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Simmons has held professorships at universities throughout the United States. She was the 2015–2016 Sterling Brown Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College, an adjunct professor in the Women’s and LGBT Studies Program at Temple University, an O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Scripps College, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago and at Spelman College’s Digital Moving Image Salon.

Awards and honors

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Filmography

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  • “Feminists We Love”: Linda Janet Holmes (2014) Color/Digital Video/60-minutes
  • “Feminists We Love”: Gloria I. Josepeh, Ph.D. (2014) Color/Digital Video/60-minutes
  • “Feminists We Love”: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc., (2014) Color/Digital Video/60-minutes
  • Breaking Silences: A Supplemental Video to NO! (2008), USA Color/Digital Video/112 minutes
  • For Women of Rage and Reason (2006), USA Color/Digital Video/4:40 minutes
  • NO! The Rape Documentary (2006), USA Color/Digital Video 94-minutes
  • NO! A Work-in-Progress (1997, 2000, 2002), USA, Color/Digital Video/8-minutes, 20-minutes- and 74-minutes
  • In My Father’s House (1996), USA, Color/Video/15-minutes
  • Silence…Broken (1993), USA, Color/Video/8-minutes

References

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  1. ^ Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia (June 29, 2007). "Stories of Survival". In These Times. 31 (7): 38–39.
  2. ^ Williams, Andrea (March 18, 2008). "Review of NO! Confronting Sexual Assault in Our Communities". Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. 10 (1): 76–78. doi:10.1080/10999940801937870. S2CID 145444337.
  3. ^ "Our Impact - Timeline of Accomplishments". Black Women's Blueprint. 2015. Archived from the original on March 7, 2018.
  4. ^ "TFW's Aishah Shahidah Simmons Receives Two-Year Just Beginnings Collaborative Fellowship". The Feminist Wire. May 24, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2018.