No! Documentary Screening

I just saw this on black academic's blog, and I'm just so happy because I may be able to go to this screening. I did an interview with the director, Aishah Shahidah Simmons a few years ago when the film was still in production:

Through testimonies from Black women survivors, commentaries from acclaimed African-American women scholars and community leaders, impacting archival footage, spirited music, dance, and performance poetry, NO! unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities. What does it look like to visually make central that which has been placed on the margins and on the periphery?

Moving from enslavement of African people in the United States through present day, NO! moves from rage/trauma/emotional and physical pain to meditation to action to healing where the consciousness of the featured Black women survivors of rape and sexual assault, who range in age, geographic location, and sexual orientation, transforms from victim to survivor to educator, activist, and healer. In NO! Aishah Shahidah Simmons feminizes African-American history while simultaneously addressing the rape and sexual assault of Black women and girls.

screening at:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
African American Cultural Center at 3:00pm

for more information check out the filmmaker, Aishah Simmons website. www.notherapedocumentary.org and for an in-depth screening list, please go to www.notherapedocumentary.org/events.html

I also saw a listing for a screening in Cleveland, but could find no location information on the linked site:
AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland
Friday, April 14, 2006
www.aidstaskforce.org