Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her teacher/mentor, Black feminist writer/filmmaker/cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara at the Hatch-Billops Collection in New York_Michael Simmons, photographer ©1994
The making of NO! was featured cover story in the weekend section of The Philadelphia Tribune on September 15, 1995. The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States.
The making of NO! was featured cover story in the weekend section of The Philadelphia Tribune on September 15, 1995. The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States.
The making of NO! was featured cover story in the weekend section of The Philadelphia Tribune on September 15, 1995. The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States.
NO! Production Still: Featured Poet Essex Hemphill_Charlene Gilbert, photographer ©1995
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Black feminist scholar-activist Beverly Guy-Sheftall at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia_Michael Simmons, photographer ©1996
Through My Sister’s Eyes Global Film Festival in April 1998
NO! Production Still: producer/director Aishah Shahidah Simmons and featured interviewee Johnnetta Betsch Cole _Joan Brannon, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: percussionist Altemetta Grace Matthews and featured actor Lois Moises_Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: featured Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, assistant director Nikki Harmon, set decorator Kia Steave-Dickerson_ associate producer /prod. manager Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: narrative vignette actors Eddie Dean Dobbs, Lean Diane Brown, Abbey Wexler) _Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: narrative vignette actors Abbey Wexler, Leah Diane Brown _Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: actors Robin Dunn, Sultan Ali _Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: narrative vignette actor Sultan Ali_Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: assistant director Nikki Harmon and creative advisor/featured interviewee Michael Simmons_Wadia Gardiner, photographer © 1999
NO! Production Still: featured interviewee Barbara Smith and producer/director Aishah Shahidah Simmons)_Joan Brannon, photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: featured interviewee Barbara Smith_Joan Branon, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: Aishah Shahidah Simmons and featured interviewee John T. Dickerson__Joan Brannon, Photographer ©1999
NO! Production Still: featured poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers_Scheherazade Tillet, Photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: Featured Interviewees Associate Producer Salamishah Tillet and Production Stills Photographer Scheherazade Tillet_Wadia Gardiner, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: assistant director Nikki Harmon and featured interviewee Adrienne Davis_ Scheherazade Tillet, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: co-producer/contributing editor Gail M. Lloyd and scholar-activist advisor and featured interviewee Aaronette M. White_Scheherazade Tillet, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: scholar-activist advisor and featured interviewee Aaronette M. White_Scheherazade Tillet, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: director of photography/associate producer Joan Brannon and producer/director Aishah Shahidah Simmons_Scheherazade Tillet, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: producer/director Aishah Shahidah Simmons_Scheherazade Tillet, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: featured interviewee Farah Jasmine Griffin_ Scheherazade Tillet, Photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: featured interviewee Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons_Wadia Gardiner, photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: featured poet Samiya A. Bashir _Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: co-producer/contributing editor Gail Lloyd and director of photography/associate editor Joan Brannon)_Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: Co-Producer/Assistant Camera Gail Lloyd, Production Assistant Rehema Trimiew, and Director of Photography Joan Brannon_Wadia Gardiner © 2000
NO! Production Still: producer/director Aishah Shahidah Simmons and assistant director Nikki Harmon_ Wadia Gardiner, photographer © 2000
NO! Production Still: featured interviewee Charlotte Pierce-Baker_Wadia Gardiner, Photographer ©2000
NO! Production Still: interviewee Charlotte Pierce-Baker, dir. of photog./asst. prod. Joan Brannon, co-prod./contributingeditor Gail Lloyd, prod./dir. Aishah Shahidah Simmons_ Wadia Gardiner, © 2000
NO! Production Still: Scholar-Activist Advisor/Interviewee Janelle L. White_Wadia Gardiner, photographer ©2000
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Michael Simmons with Interpreter at Groupe du 6 Novembre and Amnesty International, French Section co-sponsored presentation of NO! A Work-in-Progress, © 2001
Aishah on stage with hiphop trio Meufia in Paris France, ©2001
Aishah interviewed on Radio Afrique in Paris, France © 2001
Co-Producer/Director of Photography Tamara L. Xavier, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Editor Sharon Mullally, Co-Producer/Contributing Editor Gail Lloyd, Associate Producer/Production Manager Wadia Gardiner at Sneak Preview screening of NO! at Scribe Video Center_Tina Morton, photographer ©2005
Scholar-Activist C. Nicole Mason, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Scholar-Activist/NO! Associate Producer Salamishah Tillet at the Sneak Preview screening of NO! at Scribe Video Center_Tina Morton, photographer © 2005
NO! Co-Producer/Director of Choreography Tamara L. Xavier and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the Sneak Preview screening of NO! at Scribe Video Center_Tina Morton, photographer © 2005
Filmmakers Dwight Williams, Preston Holmes, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons in Los Angeles shortly after the World Premiere of NO! at the Pan African Film Festival_ Michael Simmons, photographer © 2006
Winners!!! Filmmakers Jennifer Abod & Aishah Shahidah Simmons, San Diego Women’s Film Festival © 2006
Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the Italian Premiere of NO! at the 28 Festival Internationzionale Di Cinema E Donne (28th International Women's Film Festival) in Florence, Italy ©2006
Aishah Shahidah Simmons interviewed by press at the 28 Festival Internationzionale Di Cinema E Donne (28th International Women's Film Festival) in Florence, Italy ©2006
Group photo after Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ guest lecture in a Psychology class at Bennett College for Women © 2007
Women Fighting AIDS organization in Nairobi, Kenya © 2007
Aishah Shahidah Simmons speaking at a HIV Prevention Justice Rally in Atlanta © 2007
Cheryl A. Wall, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Salamishah Tillet at the Philadelphia reading and book signing of Savoring the Salt: The Life and Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara at PENN Bookstore © 2008
Winner at the India International Women’s Film Festival © 2008
Philadelphia Black LGBT Pride Legends Awards Ceremony © 2008
The French Premiere of NO! Aishah Shahidah Simmons, with Sandrine Goldschmidt and the producers of “Femmes en Résistance Festival Féministe de Documentaires” in Accueil, France © 2008
Aishah Shahidah Simmons w/Feminist Islamic Scholar-Activists Amina Wadud, Saddiya Sheikh, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons at the WISE Muslim Women’s Second Inter’l Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia © 2009
Aishah Shahidah Simmons in the director’s chair at Dhamma Pattana in Mumbai, India_Nilesh Shah, photographer © 2010
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and the late Vipassana Meditation Teacher S.N. Goneka at Dhamma Pattana in Mumbai, India_Tara Roberts, photographer © 2010
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Dorothy Woodend, director of programming, at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada © 2011
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, one of the featured speakers at SlutWalk Philadelphia © 2011
Rev. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the San Francisco Zen Center © 2011
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Clara Whaley-Perkins who is a Black Feminist Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Author & dir. of the Life After Trauma Organization. Dr. Whaley-Perkins has provided her services to Aishah since 1992_Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, photographer © 2012
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Johnnetta Betsch Cole at Celebration: Audre Lorde 20 Years Later, Hunter College, © 2012
Pat Clark, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Inelle Cox Bagwell with Valerie Ann Johnson (in the background) at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, Tennessee in 2012.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Lisa Diane White at Aaronette M. White’s Celebration of Life Ceremony at Charis Bookstore, Atlanta, GA © 2012
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Co-Recipient of the Speaking the Unspeakable Award at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Mother Tongue Monologues, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture_Linda Carranza, photographer © 2013
Honorary Co-Chair Tiona McClodden, Co-Recipients of the Speaking the Unspeakable Award- Fadzai Maparutsa and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Mother Tongue Monologues, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture_Pat Clark, photographer © 2013
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and International Human Rights Activist Michael Simmons at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Mother Tongue Monologues, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture_Linda Carranza, photographer © 2013
Black Feminist Scholar/Author Thadious Davis and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Mother Tongue Monologues, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture © 2013
Aishah Shahidah Simmons posing a question to Black Feminist Scholar trailblazers Barbara Smith, Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Paula Giddings at the Harriet Tubman: A Legacy of Resistance Symposium, SUNY Albany © 2013
Black Feminist Scholar/Writer Gloria I. Joseph (The Wind Is Spirit: The Life, Loves and Legacy of Audre Lorde) and Aishah Shahidah Simmons in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands © 2014
Writer/Activist Darnell L. Moore, First Lady of New York Chirlane McCray, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at Black Women’s Blueprint’s Mother Tongue Monologues © 2014
Aishah Shahidah Simmons facilitating a dialogue about sexual and gender-based violence to high school students at the Women’s Leadership Project International Women’s Day Program at Washington Preparatory High School, Los Angeles, CA, © 2014
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and the Women’s Leadership Project Team, Betty Rosenda Green, Founding Director Sikivu Hutchinson, and Jamion Allen © 2014
Aishah Shahidah Simmons interviewed on “the Women’s Program,” KPFK Pacifica Radio, © 2014
Claremont Graduate University Poster, © 2014
Aishah Shahidah Simmons reading from her foreword to Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence (Lisa Factora-Borchers, Editor) at Bluestockings Bookstore, New York, © 2014
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and LGBT Activist Edie Windsor (United States v. Windsor) at Temple University, © 2014
Aishah Shahidah Simmons speaking at the Rock A Gele for Our Girls: #BringBackOurGirls Rally in Philadelphia © 2014
The six member Black Women's Blueprint (BWB) Delegation, Trayvon Martin's family and attorney at the Civil Society consultation with the senior US Government Delegation to the United Nation U.S. CERD (Committee on the Eradication of Racial Discrimination) Review in Geneva, Switzerland: L-R Jahvaris Fulton, Aishah Shahidah Simmons (BWB), Daryl Parks, Esq. Frances Nielah Bradley (BWB), Sybrina Fulton, Sherley Accime (BWB), Christina Jaus (BWB), Farah Tanis (BWB), and Nikki Patin (BWB), © 2014.
Black Women's Blueprint delegate Aishah Shahidah Simmons delivered her statement on state sanctioned and intimate partner violence committed against Black straight and queer women in the United States at the Civil Society Consultation with the senior U.S. Government Delegation to the United Nations U.S. CERD Review in Geneva, Switzerland_Christina Jaus, photographer © 2014
Black Women's Blueprint's delegate Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the U.S. CERD Review at the United Nations, Geneva Switzerland_Christian Jaus, photographer © 2014
Following a press briefing at the close of the U.S. CERD Review at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland_ 2014: Carlos Garcia (PUENTE Arizona), Ron Davis (The Jordan davis Foundation), Sybrina Fulton (The Trayvon Martin Foundation), Aishah Shahidah Simmons (Black Women's Blueprint), Ejim Dike (US Human Rights Network), and Chandra Bhatnagar (ACLU)
Aishah Shahidah Simmons presenting NO! at University of California, San Diego © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons keynoting University of California, San Diego’s Take Back The Night Rally © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons performing “A State of Rage” at One World Poetry Night in Berlin, Germany_ Arne Shultz © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons performing “A State of Rage” at One World Poetry Night in Berlin, Germany_ Arne Shultz © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Poets Raz Matilda SibSch, Amora ThaPoet and Ab Elf at One World Poetry Night, Berlin, Germany_Arne Schulz, photographer © 2015
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Sonia Sanchez and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia © 2015
Documentary Filmmakers: Sam Pollard, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Tina Morton, Louis Massiah, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons with Black Cuban Feminist Activist Organizers Maria Isabel Moinelo Hernandez and Norma Guillard at the NO! screening at Centro Comunitario del Canal, Havana, Cuba © 2015
NO! screening at Centro Comunitario del Canal, Havana, Cuba © 2015
NO! at Centro Comunitario del Canal, Havana, Cuba © 2015
NO! at Centro Comunitario del Canal, Havana, Cuba © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons at Proyecto Palomas with survivor-activists including Founding Executive Director Lizette Vila, and Playwright and Creator of V-Day and One Billion Rising Eve Ensler in Havana Cuba © 2015
Survivor-Activist Circle at Proyecto Palomas during the Cuban premieres of NO! The Rape Documentary and the Vagina Monologues © 2015_ Paula Allen, photographer © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Founding Executive Director Lizette Villa, Proyecto Palomas_ Paula Allen, photographer © 2015
Addis Darlington (Coordinadora de Oremi), AnouchK Ibacka Valiente and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at NO! screening at Cine Acapulco, Havana, Cuba © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons with AnouchK Ibacka Valiente, translating at the NO! screening at Cine Acapulco, Havana, Cuba © 2015
NO! screening at Cine Acapulco, Havana, Cuba ©2015
Black Feminist Scholars/Cultural Workers Rev. F. Reanae McNeal, Tracy L. Fisher and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin © 2015
Black feminist scholars Heidi R. Lewis and Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the NO! Tenth Anniversary Panel during the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin © 2015
Black feminist scholars Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Tracy Fisher, and F. Reanae McNeal at the NO! Tenth Anniversary Panel during the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Heidi R. Lewis after the NO! Tenth Anniversary Panel at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin © 2015
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and Tracy L. Fisher after the NO! Tenth Anniversary Panel at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin © 2015
Black Feminist Trailblazers Paula Giddings, Michele Wallace, Beverly Guy-Sheftall with Aishah Shahidah Simmons at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin © 2015
Rutgers University Poster © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Black feminist filmmaker-scholar Kathe Sandler pre-NO! screening and discussion at Rutgers University_Kiyanna Stewart, photographer © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons at Rutgers University_Jannah Handy, photographer © 2015
Pre NO! screening and discussion: Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Michael Simmons (Founding Co-Director, with Linda Caranza, of the Ráday Salon in Budapest, Hungary_AnouchK Ibacka Valiente, photographer © 2015
Aishah Shahidah Simmons at NO! screening and discussion at Ráday Salon in Budapest, Hungary_Linda Carranza, photographer © 2015
NO! screening and discussion at Ráday Salon in Budapest, Hungary_Linda Carranza, photographer © 2015
German Premiere of NO!: Film Screenings @ Xart Splitta, Berlin, Germany, © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons at NO! post screening discussion at Film Screenings @ Xart Splitta, Berlin, Germany, © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her guest lecturer Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons’ in Aishah’s Black Legacies: Feminist Filmmakers, Black Women Writers and Imaginings of Black Experience Seminar at Williams College_Aunrika Tucker-Shabazz, photographer © 2016
Aneeka Henderson, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Kai M. Green during the “I trained my eyes to see; Filming Genders and Sexualities,” panel at the Feminist Poetics of Legacies of June Jordan One Day Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons during the “I trained my eyes to see; Filming Genders and Sexualities,” panel at the Feminist Poetics of Legacies of June Jordan One Day Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst_AnouchK Ibacka Valiente, photographer © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons during the “I trained my eyes to see; Filming Genders and Sexualities,” panel at the Feminist Poetics of Legacies of June Jordan One Day Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst_AnouchK Ibacka Valiente, photographer © 2016
A Mini NO! reunion: Aishah Shahidah Simmons with trailblazing Black Feminist Scholar-Activists Barbara Smith, and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons the Legacies of June Jordan One Day Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst © 2016
A Mini NO! reunion: Aishah Shahidah Simmons with featured NO! Poet Samiya A. Bashir at the Legacies of June Jordan One Day Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst © 2016
Some of the many presenters at the Legacies of June Jordan One Day Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst(Front row: Cheryl Clarke, Nivea Castro, Margo Okazawa Rey, Sonia Sanchez, Akasha Gloria Hull, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Samiya A. Basher. Back row: Kai M. Green, Evie Shockley, Sharon Page Ritchie, Gloria I. Joseph, Lisa C. Moore, John Bracey and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan) © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons reading from her chapter “Removing the Mask: AfroLez®femcentric Silence Breaker” in Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement (Jennifer Patterson, editor) at Bluestockings Bookstore © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons signing author/editor Robin D. Stone’s (No Secrets No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse) copy of Queering Sexual Violence Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement. © 2016
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Jennifer Patterson, (editor of Queering Sexual Violence) at Giovanni's Room Bookstore in Philadelphia_Aleksei Luthor Wagnor, photographer, © 2016
