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"What you do to children matters. And they might never forget." Toni Morrison, God Bless the Child

Survivor-Healer, Award-winning Filmmaker/Writer, Buddhist/Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and Inside Out Radio Collective Member Aishah Shahidah Simmons engaged in a conversational interview with Mirror Memoirs Co-Directors Amita Swadhin and Jaden Fields. 

Mirror Memoirs is a national storytelling and organizing project intervening in r*pe culture by uplifting the narratives, healing, and leadership of Black, Indigenous, and of color Two Spirit, transgender, non-binary, intersex, and queer survivors of childhood r*pe and s*xual assault. Mirror Memoirs is a community of belonging for anyone who wants to end r*pe culture without leaving any survivor behind.

Amita, Jaden and Aishah are sibling survivors, dear friends, trusted comrades and co-conspirators in breaking silences, healing from, disrupting and ending childhood sexual abuse without policing, prisons.

Learn more about and get involved with Mirror Memoirs
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This interview aired live on Monday, September 25, 2023 at 6pm ET. 

The Inside Out radio program illuminates and celebrates the rich diversity that is the LGBTQIA+ experience. The groundbreaking show, created by Sheila Alexander-Reid, has aired continuously since 2008, and is Washington, DC's only show of its kind on the FM dial and one of only a handful of live LGBTQIA+ radio shows in the country. As the name implies, the Inside Out Radio Collective takes you inside this community to look at everything from pop culture to US National and international politics through an LGBTQIA-inclusive lens. We are proud to be part of the legacy of cutting-edge public affairs programming on WPFW (PACIFICA), home of jazz and justice radio.

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Inside Out Radio: Mirror Memoirs - No Survivor Left Behind with Amita Swadhin and Jaden Fields

Noted filmmaker/activist Aishah Shaheedah Simmons weighs in on the issue of #consent in matters of #sexual #violence & the difference in the #burden of #proof for celebs like #Cosby and their #female #accusers. #safespaces #allegations #money #power

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Filmmaker, educator and sexual violence survivor Aishah Shahidah Simmons provides an update on her latest project, #LoveWithAccountability, the ongoing demands of healing work, and thoughts on the pending Cosby trial's larger societal implications.

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons joins Wake Up With WURD, guest host Dr. Aaron Smith, to discuss the recent Bill Cosby verdict and she is also the Producer, Writer, and Director of "NO! The Rape Documentary."

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Scholar/activist Aishah Shahidah Simmons helps dissect the complex issues involved in seeking accountability for sexual violations of Black women and girls, and how philanthropy and fame affects public opinion.

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons ​is the Producer, Writer, and Director of “NO! The Rape Documentary.” She rejoins Wake Up With WURD to discuss her newest article, “New Whitney Houston documentary reveals she survived child sexual abuse. But the silence around it harmed her.”

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WURD Radio’s President & CEO, Sara Lomax-Reese interviews Tuere Sala, a seasoned meditation teacher and leader in the insight meditation movement. Sala will be in Philadelphia this weekend (Feb. 1st & Feb. 2nd) leading a retreat specifically for People of Color. She will explore how we can cultivate emotional states that will heal rather than harm. For more information, go to https://www.dvinsight.org/events.

Sara Lomax-Reese Interviews Tuere Sala

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her) is a survivor-healer and an award-winning Black feminist lesbian filmmaker and writer who, for 30 years, has examined the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. Her cultural productions, the 2006-released ground breaking film NO! The Rape Documentary, and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (AK Press, 2019), center on breaking silences, healing, and non-carceral accountability for harm. Aishah is also a trauma-informed Mindfulness Meditation teacher who has been studying and practicing Theravada Buddhism for 20 years. Her current book-in-process, Love, Justice, and Dharma, is both the capstone of the trilogy of works that began with NO! and the bridge to her new direction of work primarily focused on offering resources and teachings on how mindfulness is a tool for supporting balance and cultivating compassion amid the often turbulent vicissitudes in life. She is on social media  @afrolez. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/afrolez

Inside Out Radio: Mirror Memoirs - No Survivor Left Behind with Amita Swadhin and Jaden Fields

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

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