YWCA Racial Justice Film Series presents:

NO! The Rape Documentary
Friday, April 11 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 12 @ 7:30pm
Tickets $5, Members free

www.notherapedocumentary.com

One out of three women in the United States will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

Produced and Directed over a period of eleven years, seven of which were full time, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor, this groundbreaking feature length documentary features riveting testimonials from Black women survivors who defy victimization.

Violence prevention advocates, theologians, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and other leading scholars and human rights activists provide an interdisciplinary context with which to examine sexual violence in African-American communities.

Impacting archival footage, spirited music, transformational dance, and performances from award-winning poets take viewers on a journey from enslavement of African people in the United States through present day.

Winner of an audience choice award and a juried award at the San Diego Women Film Festival, NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia. Since its official release in 2006, NO! has been screened and distributed to racially and ethnically diverse audiences at film festivals, community centers, colleges/universities, high schools, correctional facilities, rape crisis centers, battered women’s shelters, and conferences throughout the United States, in Italy, Spain, France, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, Hungary, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil.