NO! The Rape Documentary: Ending Sexual Assault and Violence Against Women

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, Colombia, Guadeloupe, Venezuela, Brazil, India, France, England, and Mexico. 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. She recently completed an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. During their 2009 spring quarter, Ms. Simmons taught an undergraduate course titled “Sisters Outsider: Diasporic African Women Narrative and Documentary Filmmakers,” and began working on her next feature length documentary project, which she is working on with her mother Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ph.D., on Black/Diasporic African Muslim women. Raised as a Sufi Muslim, Ms. Simmons is featured in Farah Nousheen’s award-winning documentary Nazrah: A Muslim Woman’s Perspective.