All posts tagged "Aishah Shahidah Simmons"
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Recovered Histories of Anti-Rape Activism: Celebrating Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Intersectional Approaches
By The Feminist Wire Associate Editors We write in celebration of our visionary sister and comrade/comadre, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, black lesbian feminist, cultural worker, filmmaker,...
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Press Release: Tamura Lomax, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs to be honored by Spelman College and Black Women’s Blueprint
For Immediate Release TFW’s Tamura Lomax, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs to be honored by Spelman College and Black Women’s Blueprint April 29 – 30,...
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LOVE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY: A Mother’s Lament & A Daughter’s Postscript
As a Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and Human Rights Activist, I am shocked and ashamed of myself. I am ashamed that I let my...
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Who is Accountable to the Black Latinx Child?
Content Notice: This article is part of the #LoveWITHAccountability forum on The Feminist Wire. The purpose of this forum and the #LoveWITHAccountability project is to prioritize child sexual abuse,...
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Accountability to Ourselves and Our Children
What we know is that child sexual abuse is an epidemic. It is traumatic. Surviving it increases the chances that you will be sexually assaulted...
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How I Built Community While Researching Accountability
I knew then that if following that truth was healing her and kept bringing her back to this honorable work, that indeed we were no...
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Honoring Black Resistance without Supporting Nate Parker
During our many long and painful conversations about this publication, we deliberately and intentionally considered the reasons why so many Black folks would choose to...
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The Making of a Bad Ass Black Feminist: A Conversation with C. Nicole Mason and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
In this interview with C. Nicole Mason, author of Born Bright: A Young Girl’s Journey from Nothing to Something In America (St. Martin's Press, August...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons Receives Two-Year Just Beginnings Collaborative Fellowship
“True liberation must come from within. I am a Black feminist lesbian who is a survivor of both incest/child sexual abuse and rape. What better...
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TFW’s Heidi R. Lewis & Aishah Shahidah Simmons to Visit Berlin
Heidi R. Lewis, TFW Associate Editor and Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College, will teach her course entitled Hidden Spaces, Hidden...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons Receives Sterling Brown Professorship at Williams College
TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons was invited to be the Sterling Brown Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College during the spring semester...
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Toni Cade Bambara: A Woman of and for the People
Michael Simmons: What struck me about Toni during this time was that she was continually engaged in forming organizations that allowed African American artists to...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
So when The Salt Eaters or any of Toni Cade Bambara’s life-saving works fall off my bookshelf, or a scene from her literary creation shows...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
In spite of the aforementioned examples of blatant and often grotesque, sexism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, and homophobia practiced in many (not all) organized religions, there...
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Better Off Dead: Black Women Speak to the United Nations CERD Committee
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Farah Tanis With each of our dead, we mourn the loss of a piece of ourselves and with each of our raped...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in Philly Rally to #BringBackOurGirls
On Saturday, May 3, 2014, documentary filmmaker and TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons participated in the “Rock A Gele For Our Girls” Rally held in...
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Dear Sister: The connections between sexual violence and feminism’s toxicity
By Mandy Van Deven & Lisa Factora-Borchers If you want to know the future of online feminism, you have to know its past. Since no...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
Word libation in honor of Toni Cade Bambara’s genius: The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of...
