Coined in 1990, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, AfroLez®femcentric defines the culturally conscious role of women who identify as Afrocentric, Lesbian/Queer, AND Feminist.
“…Fall 1996 Salamishah (Tillet) told me over the phone about her sexual assaults and that she was a multiple survivor. I was frustrated. I didn’t know what to actually do when she told me that she was raped. Should we talk about it? I didn’t know what to do. Two years later in a social documentary class at Rutgers University, I asked Salamshah if I could do a documentation of her healing process…How does a sister to a survivor heal as well? That’s one thing I learned. Not only was it easier to talk about her healing, look at her healing, but how do I heal as a survivor’s sister and break that silence and begin to talk about it with my sister and help her heal?” ~ Scheherazade Tillet , Visionary Photographer, Co-Founder & Executive Director of A Long Walk Home, Inc. in NOtheRapeDocumentary.org