Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an American documentary filmmaker, author, educator, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. 
Her 2006 film "NO! The Rape Documentary" addressed sexual assault in the black community, a topic that has, according to Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell "traditionally been so attuned to racism outside that it has largely turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to gender violence within." In a review of "NO!", Andrea Williams described the film as, "notable, not only for its critical exposition, but also for the ways in which it places Black womens’ voices at the center of its narrative." 
Career.
Simmons has held professorships at universities throughout the United States. She was the 2015-2016 Sterling Brown Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College, an Adjunct Professor in the Women’s and LGBT Studies Program at Temple University, an O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Scripps College, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago and at Spelman College’s Digital Moving Image Salon.