Aishah Shahidah Simmons' AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives
Aishah Shahidah SimmonsBlack. Feminist. Lesbian. Survivor. Dharma practitioner and teacher. These are not just identities. They are portals. This work moves through them. Toward compassionate truth. Toward healing and accountability. Toward freedom for all beings.
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On Jennifer Patterson’s Queering Sexual Violence, Ten Years Later
Yesterday, April 24th, marked the tenth anniversary of the publication of Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices Within the Anti-Violence Movement, a visionary and groundbreaking anthology.
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While I, without...
Not a Turning Away: A Continuation
“When you learn, you teach. When you teach, you learn.” — West African Proverb
For 32 years, I have been teaching. I just didn’t always call it that.
In 1994, I wrote the choreopoem, “A State of Rage,” in a Toni Cade Bambara scriptwriting...
To Love WITH Accountability®: On Essex Hemphill and the Refusal of Silence
“We so called men
We so called Brothers
Wonder why it’s so hard to love our women
When we’re about them the way America loves us.”
April holds both National Poetry Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the United States.
T...
I Am Because They Were
Last night, April 4, 2026, was a night. I am still feeling it. What a gift to be honored by those in whose legacy I stand, on the 58th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, GA. I am grateful. Below...
The Suffering That Does Not Trend
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For months I have been carrying a quiet horror, not only about the Epstein revelations themselves, but about where we were and were not pointing our attention. Then a [February 7, 2026] Instagram post by Harsh...
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