love WITH accountability® events and related presentations
with Aishah Shahidah Simmons in 2021
Thursday, November 18, 2021
7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT
Jane Doe Films in partnership with PAXA (Parents Against Child Sexual Abuse) will host a screening of Episode 1 of HBO’s Allen v. Farrow and a panel discussion on Cultural Obstacles to Discussing Child Sexual Abuse.
The panel, moderated by the Latina Co-Founder + President of P.A.X.A., Tania Haigh, features panelists: David Haigh, P.A.X.A. Co-founder; Debra Suh, Executive Director of the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF); Tara Walker Lyons, Native American survivor advocate, and namesake for Tara's Law (Montana); and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, survivor & the creator of love WITH accountability®.
FREE Registration: https://bit.ly/AVF-PAXA
Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies hosts
Anger, Social Justice, and Buddhism
a public (virtual) conversation with two long-term
Tibetan and Theravada Buddhist practitioners and survivors of childhood sexual violence
sujatha baliga and Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 6:00 -7:30 pm PST (9:00-10:30 pm EST)
Registration is required. Donations are invited but not required.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Click HERE for more information
Vermont Network
Virtual Conference Session Series
September 17th, 2021
10 AM - 12 PM ET
Living into Liberated Spaces
Session 2: What is Accountability?
Aishah Shahidah Simmons - Author, activist, survivor
Liam Esposito, Advocate - deaf transman, survivor
Luz Marquez-Benbow - Advocate, organizer, survivor
The Final Straw Radio rebroadcasts
“Aishah Shahidah Simmons on #LoveWITHAccountability®”
Available on Apple and Spotify Podcasts
July 19, 2021
“During the week of July 19, 2021, The Final Straw radio re-broadcast an interview done with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, who is a writer, community organizer, prison abolitionist, and cultural worker who has done just an immense amount of work over the years to help disrupt and end the patterns of sexual abuse and assault within marginalized communities. In this interview we talk about a lot of things, her background and how she came to be doing the work she’s doing right now, how better to think about concepts like accountability, what doing this work has been like for her as an out lesbian woman, and about her book Love WITH Accountability, Digging Up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse which was published in 2019 from AK Press.”
Aishah Shahidah Simmons featured on Weekly Dharma Gathering
June 30, 2021, 7pm ET
photo credit: zhee Chatmon
The recorded guided meditation and dharma talk is available for viewing on the Weekly Dharma Gathering platform.
Topic: loveWITHaccountability®
What if we didn’t weaponize accountability in the name of justice? What if we viewed accountability as a radical form of love grounded in the belief that we are all capable of causing harm? Harm is on a vast spectrum. Most of us have caused some form of harm on our life’s journey, and it is often not the sum total of our humanity. loveWITHaccountabilty® is an experiential invitation to center the harmed without discarding the harm doer.
Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her mother, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons featured
in ‘me too.’ movement’s Survivor Healing Series
June 16, 2021
Aishah Shahidah Simmons featured on Conversating w/Pops’nAde podcast
May 2021
How does one heal after childhood and adult sexual violence? As marginalized and disenfranchised people who’ve been under the boot of white supremacy in 1619, we’re actively engaged with the “otusider” causing harm, but what do we do when the “insider” causes harm? How do we deal with these shades of grey in our families and communities.
You can view the recorded live conversations with captions, or you can listen to the conversation wherever you listen to podcasts.
L’Erin Alta’s Black Girl Mystic podcast presents:
Episode 28
Aishah Shahidah Simmons on Surviving Sexual Assault to Create Love WITH Accountability
photo credit: zhee chatmon
During the interview, Aishah shared about:
Growing up Black, Sufi Muslim and vegan, while attending Quaker schools in the Black power movement.
Her young adult spiritual journey leading to an 18-year Buddhist spiritual practice.
How + why she left the Vipassana practice (taught by S.N. Goenka) after 18-years.
Creating her groundbreaking film, " NO The Rape Documentary"
Why she don't push forgiveness or bypassing rage.
How she honors her rage with meditation practice.
You can listen to the Black Girl Mystic episode wherever you listen to podcasts.