Fall 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the making of my film, NO! The Rape Documentary. It is also the same time as the publication of my edited anthology, love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse.
To commemorate the convergence of these critical markers, I have partnered with the University of Pennsylvania, The Just Beginnings Collaborative, Colorado College's Feminist and Gender Studies Program, Scribe Video Center and the African-American Museum of Philadelphia to co-organize and co-host, the Fall 2019 conference.
Here's the link to the detailed schedule: http://lovewithaccountability.com/fromno2loveschedule
Here's the link to the list of confirmed presenters/attendees: http://lovewithaccountability.com/fromno2loveattendees
There will be three distinct, and yet connected events under the #FromNO2Love umbrella. They are:
1. Thursday, October 31, 2019, NO! anniversary screening at the Lightbox Film Center, with many of the on-screen participants and filmmakers together in attendance for the first time --6:00-10:00. There will be a video slide show in honor of Toni Cade Bambara, Essex Hemphill and Aaronette White, who were three ancestral spirits who were pivotal in the conception, evolution, and completion of NO!
2. The Friday, November 1, 2019 conference at Penn (Annenberg School for Communication) with three consecutive plenary panels (primarily featuring the NO! and love WITH accountability anthology contributors) from 9:00am -5:00pm:
Blazing the Trails: Salamishah Tillet (moderator): Loretta Ross, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Dorothy Roberts, Janelle L. White and Ulester Douglas
Sexual Violence Across the Black Diaspora: Deborah A. Thomas (moderator): Esther Armah, edxie betts, Grace Sanders Johnson, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, and Sevonna Brown
Disrupting Sexual Violence from the Margins: Dagmawi Woubshet (moderator): Amita Swadhin, Jey’nce Mizrahi Poindexter, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Scheherazade Tillet and Ignacio Hutia Xeiti Rivera
3. The November 1, 2019 reception, love WITH accountability book talk and book signing featuring over half of the 43-contributors will be held at the African American Museum in Philadelphia