The love WITH accountability Virtual Series is a collection of conversations, panels, and teachings exploring child sexual abuse, healing, and community accountability, centered on the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse.

This collection includes the following conversations, panels, and teachings:

  • The love WITH accountability book trailer introducing each of the forty contributors.

  • FromNO2Love Official book launch (November 1, 2019)

  • The Virtual Book Series (2020)

  • North Carolina Against Sexual Assault–hosted book talk

  • The Survivors’ Agenda Summit (2020)

  • Weekly Dharma Gathering (2021)

  • The me too. movement’s Survivor Healing Series, “Disrupting at Home: Unpacking Black Familial Trauma”(2021)

  • “Conversating w/Pops’nAde” podcast (2021)

  • University of California, Irvine CARE Narrative Project (2021)

  • 2016 SoundCloud audio recordings of the #LoveWITHAccountability two-part special on The Spin, produced and hosted by Esther Armah

ASL-interpreted and captioned video archives, along with some English transcripts, remain available.

Additional recordings are available on the love WITH accountability® Suite on the AfroLez® YouTube Channel.

In their own (written) words: introducing the contributors to Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

The Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse Official Book Launch at FromNO2Love. This book launch was ASL interpreted.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons talked loveWITHaccountability® on the Weekly Dharma Gathering on June 30, 2021.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her mother, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, talked LoveWITHAccountability® in ‘me too.’ movement’s Survivor Healing Series, “Disrupting at Home: Unpacking Black Familial Trauma” on June 16, 2021

Aishah Shahidah Simmons talked Love WITH Accountability® with love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Root of Child Sexual Abuse anthology contributors Pops’nAde on season 2, episode 5 of their “Conversating w/Pops’nAde” vlog (with open captions). Click HERE to listen to the podcast.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons talked Love WITH Accountability® with Rasta Bagheri on UCI (University of California at Irvine) CARE Narrative Project. The video is open captioned. This conversation is also available as a podcast. Click HERE to listen.

Book Talk 6 contact information and referenced resources are available HERE. This panel was ASL interpreted.

The Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse panel at the Survivors’ Agenda Summit, September 24, 2020 - September 26, 2020. This panel was open captioned.

Book Talk 5 contact information and referenced resources are available HERE. This panel was ASL interpreted.

Book Talk 4 contact information and referenced resources are available HERE. This panel was ASL interpreted.

Book Talk 3 contact information and referenced resources are available HERE. This panel was ASL interpreted.

Information on and resources from NCCASA (North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault) are available HERE. This panel is open captioned.

Book Talk 2 contact information and referenced resources are available HERE. This panel was ASL interpreted.

Book Talk 1 contact information and referenced resources are available HERE. This panel was ASL interpreted.

Part two of the two-part 2016 #LoveWITHAccountability special on The Spin with producer/host Esther Armah and guests, Luz Marquez-Benbow and Dr. Thema Bryant. The English transcript is available HERE.

Part one of the two-part 2016 #LoveWITHAccountability special on The Spin with producer/host Esther Armah and guests Aishah Shahidah Simmons, and her mother Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons. The English transcript is available HERE.