@afrolez

@afrolez has been a member of Linktree for 8 years and joined in April 2018. The social media accounts linked to from @afrolez are: • Instagram • YouTube • SoundCloud • LinkedIn • Email • Substack Besides social media accounts, afrolez has populated their site with: • Register for Black Liberation Dharma Online Community • Healing and Truth-Telling: Aishah Shahidah Simmons papers @ Duke University • Dāna | Support • Subscribe to AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives on Substack • Selected Media 1994-2026 • Insight Retreat : Insight Meditation Society • Mudita | Appreciative Joy: Turning Away from Envy, Comparison and Greed with Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Insight Retreat - Mindfulness-Based Approaches • Fierce Compassion: Black Women Buddhist Practices for Healing Self and Earth: A BIPOC retreat - Barre Center for Buddhist Studies • April Insight Meditation Retreat | Spirit Rock Meditation Center • Moving Towards Freedom with Love and Wisdom: An Insight Meditation Retreat • Forgiveness Insight Retreat | Spirit Rock • She wanted to meet women. Instead, she cemented herself in D.C. history. • Love with Accountability: Aishah Simmons' Dharma Journey — Delaware Valley Insight Meditation • The Teacher Training Program – Insight Meditation Society • Dharma & Mindfulness talks & presentations [videos] • Congratulations to Our 2025–2028 Teacher Training Program Cohort • 10 Ways to Find True Happiness | Lion’s Roar • We Remember: Six Remarkable Black Buddhists | Lion’s Roar • Awakening Through Audre Lorde | Lion’s Roar • A Buddhist Dedication to Dr. bell hooks • Remembering Rev Dr Leon E Wright by Aishah Shahidah Simmons at Elm Community Insight, Feb 4, 2023 • Uncovering Dr. Leon Wright • It Is Well with My Soul: My Departure from the S.N. Goenka Lineage • The Retreat, Ep. 5: The Insiders • Aishah featured on Black Girl Mystic Podcast • Prayer Pause for Philly • Contributors — Mind Our Democracy • Activating Mindfulness and Compassion: Timeless Medicine for a Troubled World • Cultivating Balance in the Eight Worldly Winds with Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Liberating the Heart: Navigating… | Spirit Rock Meditation Center • The Dharma of James Baldwin Audre Lorde (6/28 - 7/19) • The Four Noble Truths - IMS Mini Online Retreat • The Courage to Be Real — devon + nico hase • Compassion at the Pace of Our Capacity: A Path to the Boundless Heart with Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Dharma Talk with Aishah Shahidah-Simmons - Insight Meditation Western MA • Steady Refuge: Annual BIPOC Retreat @ IMS • IMS BIPOC Sangha (June 15 @ 7PM EDT) • IMS Mettā Sangha (June 9 @ 7PM EDT) • What Now?! Turning Towards Sudan | Buddhist Peace Fellowship • As It Is: An Introduction to Mindfulness (Part One) — Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation • A 5-week online journey through the Four Noble Truths • Understanding Suffering, Discovering Inner Freedom: A Four Noble Truths Daylong with Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Online Rainbow Sangha: Feb 4, 2026 • Online BIPOC Voices: Feb 1, 2026 • Retreat with Aishah and Bernadine - 0-12-25 Practicing with Equanimity and Compassion in These Times1 • Words (Still) Conjure: Honoring the Life, Work, and Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara at National Women's Studies Association's Annual Conference • Black Stars Shine Bright: Everyday Alchemy • Keynote Speaker at Roots of Change Conference • BIPOC Voices: Weekly Sunday Sangha (17BV25) • Dharma Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons 2-19-2025 • Tongues Untied at 35: Black Queerness, Art, and the Sacred (Feb 12 - 13) • Standing In Integrity: A Daylong Retreat with Aishah Shahidah Simmons & devon hase • Equanimity: Balance in the Worldly Winds - A DVI Community Sit with Aishah Simmons — Delaware Valley Insight Meditation • For Women of Rage and Reason _NO! The Rape Documentary • "To Some Supposed Brothers" Essex Hemphill _NO! The Rape Documentary • NO! 25th Ancestral Remembrance Video • #LoveWITHAccountability® Video Suite • #FromNO2Love: Black Feminist Forum on Disrupting Sexual Violence • #FromNO2Love Conference videos • The Courage Fund with Stephanie “Sparkle” Edwards and Aishah Shahidah Simmons - Ford Foundation • Salamishah Tillet presents the inaugural Courage Fund Award to Aishah Shahidah Simmons • The Inaugural Courage Fund Award Ceremony at the Ford Foundation • Ideas at Ford: The Courage Fund • NO! The Rape Documentary: A Visionary Black Filmmaker Reflects on the Journey to Open Up the Conversation on Sexual Violence Experienced by the Black Community • Survivors at the Center • The Survivors of Child Sex Abuse Who Don’t Want Their Abusers Punished • Aishah Shahidah Simmons writes herself whole in memoir on sexual violence and healing - Narrative Initiative • me too. Movement | You're not alone. • These Three Activists Are Bringing Overdue Attention to Childhood Sexual Abuse • In Survivor Solidarity: I BELIEVE June Stokes, Maria Hardy, Josh Robbins, Michelle-Whit Sims, Salina Robbins, and Sara Robbins • Black Women Have Consistently Been Trailblazers for Social Change. Why Are They So Often Relegated to the Margins? • CASSIUS CHATS: AISHAH SHAHIDAH SIMMONS ON ‘NO! THE RAPE DOCUMENTARY,’ ESSEX HEMPHILL, AND REVIVING HIS SPIRIT IN THE #METOO ERA • Making the Revolution Irresistible: An Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons • What 'defund the police' could mean for sexual assault survivors • The R. Kelly trial shocks us. Here’s What Shouldn’t • New Whitney Houston documentary reveals she survived child sexual abuse. But the silence around it harmed her. • 6 Black Feminists Speak Out About Cosby Sexual Assault Conviction • How Can We End Child Sexual Abuse Without Prisons? • BAR Book Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ “Love WITH Accountability” | Black Agenda Report • Changemaker Authors Cohort (Narrative Initiative and Write Like A Unicorn) • Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Justice Fellows • Philadelphia's Wonder Woman - Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Meet The Unsung Heroes of the #MeToo Movement: 'It's Powerful to Be Honored' • 2020 Lambda Literary Award Acceptance Speech for Love WITH Accountability • Aishah Shahidah Simmons Acceptance Speech — Inspiration Awards 2019 • Accountability for Sexual Violence Away from the Criminal Legal System w/ Aishah Simmons on ‎KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks via Apple Podcasts • 'me too.' Survivor Healing Series: Disrupting in the Home: Unpacking Black Familial Trauma • love WITH accountability discussed at the Mindfulness Network for People of Colour (MNPC) in the UK • Generations of Struggle: a Mother-Daughter Conversation about Sexual Violence • Part I - A Daughter's Journey, A Mother's Lessons on The Spin (Love WITH Accountability Special) • Transcripts of the Spin's Love WITH Accountability special • Allen v. Farrow in discussion "Cultural Obstacles to Discussing Child Sexual Abuse" • Taking A Stand Against Rape Culture and Sexual Violence in Our Communities • Love WITH Accountability: A Conversation with Aishah and Edxi • Conversating w/ Pops'nAde (video podcast with captions) • Sharing your Voice through Activism | A BR Interview with Aishah Shahidah Simmons • DC Public Library Author Talk • Reclaiming Our Power: Aishah Shahidah Simmons on her work and anthology, Love WITH Accountability • Aishah Shahidah Simmons on #LoveWithAccountability (FV Ep.2) • Aishah talks Love WITH Accountability® on UCI CARE Narrative Project • Unbroken Chain Podcast Ep 31: Love WITH Accountability • I, Survivor “All In The Family” • Imagine Otherwise Podcast: Ep 14, Aishah Shahidah Simmons • Afterword: Standing at the Lordean Shoreline – The Feminist Wire • Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy – The Feminist Wire • “Naming Our Destiny”: Afterword to The Feminist Wire’s Forum on June Jordan – The Feminist Wire • Remembering Dr. Aaronette M. White • The Feminist Wire's Feminists We Love: Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, M.D., M.Sc. • Feminists We Love: Linda Janet Holmes • The Feminist Wire's Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. (Part 1) • The Feminist Wire's Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph, Ph.D. (Part 2) • Co-creating an Equitable United States (2020 March for Black Women) • Aishah Shahidah Simmons speaks at 2018 March for Black Women and March for Survivors • 39 Linear Feet: My Papers Are Now Open at Duke • Chosen Ancestry, Multiplicity, and Black Liberation Dharma • On Jennifer Patterson’s Queering Sexual Violence, Ten Years Later • To Love WITH Accountability®: On Essex Hemphill and the Refusal of Silence • I Am Because They Were • The Suffering That Does Not Trend - Aishah Shahidah Simmons • This Peace Is for Tyrone Smith • Black Liberation Ancestors Who Embodied the Four Noble Truths • Still Wading in the Troubled Water • Wading in the Water: Reflections on November 6, 2024 • Aishah Shahidah Simmons | Mindfulness and Dharma Teacher, Filmmaker • love WITH accountability® • NO! The Rape Documentary • love WITH accountability®: Ten Years of the Project, Seven Years of the Anthology • Deconstructing Rape Myths (Dr. Aaronette M. White) — NO! The Rape Documentary • PURCHASE : Love WITH Accountability anthology • PURCHASE: Love WITH Accountability anthology • DONATE • Stop Lecturing Black People • Breakthrough Inspiration Awards Acceptance Speech • Conversating w/ Pops'nAde (audio podcast) • The Survivors: There's No Neutral on This Moving Train by Kevin Price • Buddhism and Black Feminism at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies • Between Amitabha and Tubman: Black Buddhist Thought • PURCHASE: body rites - a holistic healing and embodiment workbook for Black survivors of sexual trauma by dr. shena j. young