soars - A Long Walk Home

SOARS
story of a rape survivor
story of a rape survivor
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Table of Contents
Mission
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History
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Overview
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SOARS Performance
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SOARS Performance Cast
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Workshops: Using Art To Heal
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Workshops: Race and Media
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Workshops: Campus Safety
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Keynote Lectures
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Workshop Facilitators
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Founders
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Contact Information
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Mission
A Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH) is a 501
(c) 3 non-profit organization that uses art
therapy and the visual and performance
arts to document, to educate and to bring
about social change. We use the
testimonies, poetry, music, photographs,
and videos of and by women and children
to provide safe and entertaining forums
through which the public learns about
healing from trauma.
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History
In 1997, during the fall semester of her sophomore year in college,
Scheherazade Tillet learned that her older sister, Salamishah, was a
rape survivor. In response, Scheherazade began photographing and
documenting the impact of sexual assault in Salamishah’s life. In the
spring 2000, Salamishah and Scheherazade decided to help more
people heal from their experiences of sexual violence by transforming
this intimate photography project into the multimedia performance,
SOARS (Story Of A Rape Survivor).
Given the positive feedback of SOARS and the high incidents of
violence that women and children experience everyday, in 2003
Schehehrazade and Salamishah founded the non-profit organization, A
Long Walk Home, Inc. (ALWH) and developed comprehensive antiviolence programs that use the visual and performance arts as vehicles
for healing, social change, and education.
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Overview
The SOARS (Story Of A Rape Survivor) sexual assault
programs are comprised of a two hour performance,
keynote lectures, trainings, workshops, and curriculums
designed to educate the public about and to facilitate
individual and community healing from sexual violence.
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SOARS Performance
SOARS is a two hour performance about one woman’s journey to reclaim her body,
sexuality, spirituality, and self esteem after being sexual assaulted in college. Performed
by a diverse cast of women and featuring photographs taken by her sister during the
recovery process, SOARS uses modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the
public about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame that rape victims
too often feel with a story of hope and healing.
Fee: $3000.00
(this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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In the news…
Chicago RedEye, 04/2006
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Respondent Demographics
Sponsored by Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4) on April 27, 2006
Number of Attendees: 310 Number of Respondents: 208
Ethnicity and Gender
A sian
A mer ican
W o men
3%
N at ive
A mer ican
W o men
A f r ican
1%
A mer ican
M en
12 %
Lat ina
W o men
12 %
Age
Above 65
3%
W hit e
M en
4%
Under 18
12%
40-65
28%
18-25
15%
Lat ino
M en
1%
W hit e
W o men
19 %
A f r ican
A mer ican
W o men
48%
25-40
42%
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Respondent Demographics
Did you learn anything new about sexual violence
from SOARS?
Did tonight's program make you more aware of local
counseling services, rape crisis centers, or therapy
groups?
N/a
30%
Yes
52%
N/a
18%
No
18%
After seeing the performance, do you feel more inclined
to recommend someone you know who has experienced
sexual violence to seek counseling or therapy?
No
5%
N/a
22%
No
4%
Yes
77%
Yes
74%
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SOARS Performance Cast
Logan Vaughn is a filmmaker and dancer from Houston, Texas. She
studied Classical Ballet and Modern with the Discovery Dance Group in
Houston, and is completing her film degree at Columbia College in
Chicago. Logan has choreographed for Eastern University, Second City
Theater, and Lookingglass Theater. Committed to establishing positive
voices and strong images of women in the entertainment industry, Logan
uses the visual and performances arts as a platform for education and
exploration. She choreographed and performs the dance Fragile to Nina
Simone’s “Four Women” in SOARS.
Davina Stewart graduated from Temple University earning a Bachelor of Arts
degree and the Shirley Graham Du Bois Award of excellence in African-American
Studies. She is a performance artist currently residing in Philadelphia. As a teaching
artist she facilitated performance workshops for youth and adult learners at The
National Civil Rights Museum and The Blues Cultural Center in Memphis,
Tennessee; Action AIDS Network in Johannesburg, South Africa; The People’s
Emergency Center Shelter and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights’ Festival in
Philadelphia.
Her interest in writing and performing is based upon the belief that art is liberating
and healing. Davina intends for her work to be a catalyst in exposing, exploring and
eradicating the root causes of social inequity so that we all may actualize our full
potential. Davina interprets the poems "Do You Know What Rape Feels Like" and "I
Died and Was Born on the Same Day" in SOARS.
SOARS Performance Cast
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu This Chicago native is an international singing sensation who has
been performing her original style of song and word poetics since she began her musical journey
over eight years ago. She is known in her hometown best for her refined storytelling and
songwriting ability.
Ugochi’s music has allowed her to travel to many countries in Europe. She was selected as a
finalist in the HBO/Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam 2001 Competition and selected as a semifinalist on Star Search. She has performed with acclaimed artists such as Common, Eric Benet,
Michael McDermott, Umphrey’s McGee, Femi Kuti, and most recently opened for John Legend.
In 2004 Ugochi concluded her second tour promoting her latest musical project, “African Buttafly”
a journey that led her through across the US. Ugochi performs an adaptation of “Strange Fruit”
and is the songwriter and performer of “African Buttafly” in SOARS.
Régine Jean-Charles is a Haitian-American academic, artist and activist.
She has received
her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006.
Her dissertation “Gendering VIOLence: Francophone Women Writers, Representations of Violence,”
and the Violence of Representation consider the literary, historical, cultural, and rhetorical presence
of gender violence in the context of several francophone countries in the Caribbean and West Africa.
She has presented numerous papers on the subject of gender violence in literature and cultural
criticism, one such article, "Beneath Layers of Violence: Images of Rape and the Rwandan
Genocide" is forthcoming in a collection on Gender Violence and the Media.
Regine has starred in the groundbreaking feminist plays VENUS: the Story of the Venus Hottentot,
For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Isn't Enuf and In Harm's Way.
Her activist work includes serving as a state-certified rape crisis counselor at the Boston Area Rape
Crisis Center and working with Haitian women and girls at the Kay Fanm a Haitian Women's Center
in Boston. Regine is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia's Carter G.
Woodson Center for African and African American Studies. She performs the poem "Do You Know
What Rape Feels Like" in SOARS.
SOARS Performance Cast
Shakera Jones A native of Montclair, New Jersey has been singing since age
four. Influenced by her parents love for jazz and soul music, Shakera began
performing and singing at every opportunity. In 1995, Shakera moved to
Philadelphia to attend Temple University’s Esther Boyer College of Music, where
she received a B.A. in Music with a concentration in Jazz Voice.
While attending Temple University, Shakera formed the shakerajones quartet.
While studying for her Master’s degree in Jazz Studies at the University of the Arts,
Shakera has performed at all the premier jazz venues in Philadelphia, which
include Ortlieb’s Jazz Haus, and Zanzibar Blue. Shakera is the singer of the
adapted-version of “Strange Fruit” in SOARS.
Tamara L. Xavier is in the final stages of completing a doctoral degree in Dance at
Temple University and Future Faculty Fellow in Dance. She has focused her
research on Haitian Vodou dance as somatic education. Tamara Xavier pays close
attention to movement and loves to make melodies without sound. Tamara’s HaitianAmerican upbringing is her font of inspiration when it comes to communicating ideas.
She is also the Co-producer and Director of Choreography of Aishah Shahidah
Simmons’ documentary NO!, the groundbreaking film documentary that ends the
collective silence surrounding rape in the black community. She performs the
modern dance piece, “Spirit in the Dark” in SOARS.
SOARS Performance
Check List
Dance Floor/ Stage (space similar to a theater stage)
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Technical Director (Audio/Visual person) for rehearsal and
for the duration of the SOARS production
Projection screen (10-ft by 10-ft or larger in size that will
be on display behind the stage)
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Space reserved 3 hr before performance time for rehearsal
LCD Video Projector
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(Optional) Lighting equipment
Sound system equipment
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(Optional) additional hand held wireless microphone for the
audience if it contains 100 or more people.
1 hand held wireless microphone (for introduction &
question and answer portion of SOARS
performance)
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Permission to sale onsite A Long Walk Home, Inc.’s “Got
Consent?” t-shirts
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Lodging space for 6 artists in the performance
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For overnight performances: meal reimbursement or meal
provided before or after the performance.
2 wireless lavaliere microphones (for the poet and the
singer of the SOARS performance)
Display table (3ft by 1ft or larger)
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Using Art To Heal Workshops
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Using Art To Heal Workshops
Secondary Victims: Friends, Family Members, and Partners of
Survivors
For the last eight years, art therapist Scheherazade Tillet has photodocumented her sister’s recovery from sexual assault. Based on her
unique expertise, Scheherazade designed this workshop to help
partners, family members, and friends deal with the anger, guilt, and
hurt they feel when they learn that their loved one has been sexually
assaulted.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
SPA: Coping with Vicarious Trauma
This workshop is specifically designed for professionals and students
who work with survivors of sexual assault. Deviating from the
traditional workshop format, we use music, aromatherapy, and
expressive therapy techniques to recreate the serenity and comfort of a
day spa. In this multimedia workshop, we will discuss the origins and
effects of VT, and explore how meditation techniques, movement and
art therapy can lessen the effects of vicarious trauma.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Using Art to Heal Workshops
Art Therapy and Sexual Assault
This training for professionals who work with survivors of sexual
assault explores how art therapy techniques can: 1) provide survivors
of sexual assault with multiple models and opportunities to express
difficult emotions; 2) facilitate self expression and communication by
helping survivors use art to reclaim their experiences; and 3) provide
survivors with a tangible vehicle to reconnect to their bodies.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
Digital Media and Recovering from Sexual Assault
This workshop looks at how photography and video can be used as an
essential part of therapy and healing from sexual assault. This
workshop can be formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault who
would like to document and to incorporate art in their healing
processes; and 2) professionals who work with victims of sexual
assault.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Using Art to Heal Workshops
I Love My Body: Sexual Assault, Body Image, and Dance Therapy
This workshop looks at how dance/movement therapy can be used to
treat dissociation, promote bodily enjoyment, and build affirming body
images. It can be formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault; and 2)
trainings for professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
Sexual Healing: Sexual Abuse and Finding Our Sexual Selves
This workshop uses dance and art therapy to address how sexual
trauma interferes with having satisfying, healthy sexual relationships.
We will address issues such as sexual fear and avoidance, flashbacks,
dissociation, pain and other blocks. It can be formatted for: 1) survivors
of sexual assault; and 2) training for professionals who work with
survivors of sexual assault.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Using Art to Heal Workshops
Healing through Works: Sexual Assault Activism
This workshop will provide insight on how sexual assault activism and victim rights advocacy serve as
pivotal moments in sexual assault recovery. We will demonstrate how survivor art, activism, and advocacy
can be better integrated into sexual assault treatment and prevention programs. The workshop is an
opportunity to share work, engage in dialogue, empower survivors, and contribute to social change in the
community. This workshop is formatted for: 1) survivors of sexual assault; and 2) training for professionals
who work with survivors of sexual assault.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Race and Media Workshops
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Race & Media Workshops
No Longer P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Things): Media
Coverage of Child Sexual Assault
Female-male or same-sex childhood sexual abuse rarely is treated well in
the media. This workshop, No Longer P.Y.T., analyzes how mainstream
reporting of childhood sexual abuse renders it a media spectacle or
trivializes the negative impacts sexual abuse has on its victims. This
workshop is offered as: 1) training for professionals who work with
survivors of sexual assault; and 2) a talk for activists, academics, and
students interested in gender, sexuality and popular culture.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Race & Media Workshops
Illegal Body Checks: Race, Sports, and Sexual Assault
Over the last three years from the Kobe Bryant trial to the Duke Lacrosse scandal, there have been
several sexual assault cases with explicit racial overtones. On one hand, these cases have increased
dialogue about both racism and rape; on the other hand, they have reinforced historical stereotypes
regarding inter-racial sex, black masculinity, white and black female sexuality, and white male privilege.
This workshop will examine the following topics: 1) Are there corollaries between sports culture and sexual
assault; 2) what happens when the added factor of “race” is involved; and 3) what responsibility do
athletes have to reduce and prevent sexual violence? This workshop is formatted as: 1) training for
professionals who work with survivors of sexual assault; and 2) a talk for activists, academics, and
students interested in gender, sexuality and popular culture.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and
lodging expenses)
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Race & Media Workshops
Beyond Black and White: Race, Rape, and
the American Popular Culture
From classic films like Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee’s She’s
Gotta Have It, from the Central Park Jogger Case to Michael
Jackson’s trial, this workshop looks at how race and rape are
represented in the media, films, and hip hop. By looking at
recent high-profile cases and using feminist theory, critical
race theory, cultural studies, and legal scholarship to better
understand how race, gender, class and sexuality shape
public perceptions of both sexual assault victims and
assailants.
Fee: $1,200.00
(this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Race & Media Workshops
Beyond Our Borders: Trafficking, War and Global Sex
Crimes
This workshop analyzes sexual assault from a global perspective. By looking at how rape
is used as a tool in ethnic conflicts and war, examining the rise of “sex tourism” and
trafficking, and studying anti-rape movements in France, England, Rwanda and South
Africa, the goal of this workshop is to facilitate more nuanced thinking on gender violence
in a global and Third World context.
Fee: $1,200.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Campus Safety Workshops
Safety Abroad: Addressing Sexual Assault on Study Abroad Programs
When students study abroad, they often travel without training in personal safety
and an understanding of cross-cultural attitudes towards sexuality and sexual
assault. Unfortunately, while there is an increased risk of sexual assault when
students go abroad, there also is substantially more underreporting. As a result,
students are less likely to seek help and recover from sexual trauma. We have
created this workshop to help administrators and students develop comprehensive
study abroad sexual assault resources, insure that students are aware of university
protocol and services for them while they are abroad, identify basic safe practices,
and be able to differentiate between culturally “fitting in” and being at risk.
Fee: $800.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
Young Leaders: Working With Students to End Campus Sexual Violence
The workshop, Young Leaders, supports and provides additional resources to
student anti-violence organizations. In this workshop, by emphasizing the need of
diversity and art therapy in anti-violence programs, we help students who are
interested in sexual assault issues devise their own trainings, recruitment
strategies, and community outreach and campus education programs. There are
two versions of this workshop: 1) for college/university rape crisis counselors,
peer counselors and anti-rape advocates who work with survivors of sexual
assault; 2) for high-school crisis counselors, peer counselors and anti-violence
organizations.
Fee: $800.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
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Keynote Lectures
Groupies and Gold-diggers: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Hip
Hop
The purpose of this talk is neither to further denigrate the image of the groupie
or gold-digger nor claim that these images are always expressions of an
empowered female sexuality. Instead, it uses feminist theory and cultural
studies to examine how the stereotypes about groupies and gold-diggers
serve sexism and homophobia in the entertainment industry and to perpetuate
and to justify sexual violence committed against female fans. (Salamishah Tillet)
Fee: $650.00 (this price does not include travel and lodging expenses)
He Can Have Anyone He Wants: The Cult of the Celebrity and the Denial
of Rape
Far too often, the media coverage of celebrity or high-profile cases is overly
sensational and antagonist to rape victims. This lecture looks at two high
profile trials in order to understand how the media shapes the public reception
of sexual violence and further discourages survivors from coming forward and
pressing charges. (Salamishah Tillet)
Fee: $650.00
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Workshop Facilitators
Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis an Assistant Professor Department of
Educational Psychology, Administration, and Counseling Office in the
College of Education at the California State University at Long Beach. She
received her doctorate from Duke University in Clinical Psychology with a
focus on the cultural context of trauma recovery, as well as the
intersection of gender and racial identity. She completed her post-doctoral
training at Harvard Medical Center's Victims of Violence Program. From
2001-2004, she served as Senior Staff Psychologist and Coordinator of
the Princeton University SHARE Program. She is a contributing author in
the Beacon Press book, The Complete Guide to Mental Health for
Women.
Dr. Bryant-Davis has served for three years as an American Psychological
Association representative to the United Nations where she advocated for
mental health and human rights globally. In addition, she has been
appointed the Global and International Issues Chairperson for the Society
for the Psychological Study of Women. She is the author of Thriving in the
Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide (Praeger Press, 2005).
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Workshop Facilitators
Sunny Jeanne Givens was born
in Minneapolis and raised in Chicago. She
currently resides in Chicago working as
Artist, Jewelry Designer, and Art therapist.
She graduated in 1994 from the University of
Kansas, with highest distinction, receiving a
BFA in both Fine Art and Art History. She
earned her Masters in Art Therapy from The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in
2003.
She served as a board member for the
Illinois Art Therapy Association. She is a
faculty member the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, teaching Introduction to
Art Therapy. For the past four years, she
has worked as an Art Therapist for
Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Home
Hospice program. As an Art Therapist, she
focuses upon uses of art to cope with loss
and to re-story oneself.
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Workshop Facilitators
Amy Kohler is a dance instructor and dance
therapist. She received her B.A. in dancemovement therapy from Columbia College, a BA in
psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago
and is a graduate of the Boitsiv classical Ballet,
Ballet Chicago, Ballet Theatre of Chicago, Lyric
Opera Ballet and Ballet Iowa. Amy is Co-Director of
Wings Dance Company and a Dance Instructor in
the Communication, Dance, and Theatre at West
Carolina University.
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Workshop Facilitators
Dr. Régine Jean-Charles is a Haitian-American
academic, artist and activist. She has received her B.A.
from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 and a Ph.D.
from Harvard University in 2006. Her dissertation
“Gendering VIOLence: Francophone Women Writers,
Representations of Violence,” and the Violence of
Representation consider the literary, historical, cultural,
and rhetorical presence of gender violence in the context
of several francophone countries in the Caribbean and
West Africa.
She has presented numerous papers on the subject of
gender violence in literature and cultural criticism, one
such article, "Beneath Layers of Violence: Images of
Rape and the Rwandan Genocide" is forthcoming in a
collection on Gender Violence and the Media. Regine is
currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of
Virginia's Carter G. Woodson Center for African and
African American Studies.
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Workshop Facilitators
Marta Sanchez self-taught visual artist and poet, Sanchez
was born and raised in Panama. She is a sexual assault
survivor who uses art to break the silence surrounding sexual
violence and to heal invisible wounds. In sharing her work, she
aims to simultaneously raise awareness, reassure other
survivors and encourage the advocates who support them.
Sanchez, a former rape crisis center educator, is a graduate of
the University of Virginia School of Law and Spelman College .
At the law school, she served as assistant director for the Rape
Crisis Advocacy Project, and created and hosted the Project's
"Survivor Art Group." Sanchez, who has performed in an Atlanta
production of The Vagina Monologues, is a full-time artist and
activist.
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Workshop Facilitators
Tamara L. Xavier is in the final stages of
completing a doctoral degree in Dance at Temple
University and Future Faculty Fellow in Dance. She
has focused her research on Haitian Vodou dance
as somatic education. Tamara Xavier pays close
attention to movement and loves to make melodies
without sound.
Tamara’s Haitian-American upbringing is her font of
inspiration when it comes to communicating ideas.
She is also the Co-producer and Director of
Choreography of Aishah Shahidah Simmons’
documentary NO!, the groundbreaking film
documentary that ends the collective silence
surrounding rape in the black community.
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Co-Founder
Salamishah Tillet is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home Inc. and the writer and the
program director of A Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS). Salamishah was sexually
assaulted as a college student and SOARS documents her personal college and postcollege journey from rape victim to rape survivor. Salamishah breaks the silence that often
surrounds rape by narrating her trauma in order to educate both survivors and nonsurvivors about sexual assault and recovery.
Her poem “Do You Know What Rape Feels Like?” is performed alongside her testimony, in
the award-winning Cambridge Documentary Film Rape Is. . . The 2003 documentary Rape
Is examines rape as a human rights violation which continually threatens millions of
women, children and men throughout the world. Additionally, Salamishah is an associate
producer of and shares her story in Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s groundbreaking
documentary NO! The Rape Documentary As a full-length film, NO! explores the history of
sexual assault in the African-American community.
Salamishah Tillet is the currently Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney post-doctoral fellow at the
Center of African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan. In November
2006, she will receive her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization Program from
Harvard University where she studied American and African-American Literatures. She is a
graduate of Brown University where she received a Masters of Art of Teaching in English
(M.A.T) in May of 1997. She is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where
she received a B.A. in English and Afro-American Studies in May of 1996. At the
University of Pennsylvania, she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In
2006, Salamishah was also prominently featured as Ebony Magazine’s “Young Leaders:
30 for 2006” Award.
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Co-Founder
Scheherazade Tillet is the co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc. and the
photographer and artistic director of A Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS). In
May 2000, she received her B.A. from Tufts University. She studied photography
at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and the Rutgers University Mason
Gross School of Art. Scheherazade earned her Masters in Art Therapy (M.A.A.T)
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.
She works as an art therapist and rape crisis counselor at the Chicago YWCA
Rape Crisis Center. In 1998, under the tutelage of social documentary
photographer, Steve Hart, she began SOARS as a mini social documentary
project in which she intimately examined her sister’s recovery from sexual
assault. Scheherazade transformed her initial project into a full-scale
photography exhibition and multimedia slideshow presentation. Scheherazade’s
photographs from SOARS have been featured in Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s
documentary NO! As a full-length film, NO! explores the history of sexual assault
in the African-American community. Her photographs have also been featured in
Cambridge Documentary short Rape Is. . . Rape Is examines rape as a human
rights violation which continually threatens millions of women, children and men
throughout the world.
As a photographer, Scheherazade is particularly interested in deconstructing
stereotypes, concentrating on the intersections of race, gender, and class, and
the body. She has worked on numerous social documentary projects such as
“Children in Ghana,” “Body Image: The Last Trimester,” “Harlem World,” and is
currently working on a project-in-progress on gentrification in urban communities.
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Past Appearances: Performances
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Community Counseling Centers of Chicago,
Chicago, IL (2006)
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Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago, IL
(2005)
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University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh,
WI (2006)
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Bowdoin College, Brunswick, MI (2004)
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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
(2002, 2006)
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Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (2004)
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University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2003)
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Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH (2002)
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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2001,
2002)
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Northeastern University, Cambridge, MA (2002)
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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2005)
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Barnard College/Columbia University, New
York, NY (2005)
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Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (2005)
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Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
(2005)
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Past Appearances: Workshops/Lectures
Workshops:
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Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault,
Springfield, IL (2005)
“Using Dance Movement and Art Therapy to
Heal from Negative Images Workshop”
Lectures:
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Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2006)
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Bloomburg University, Bloomburg, PA (2005)
“Kobe Bryant Discussion”
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Kansas Coalition of Sexual Assault, (2005)
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2004)
“Secondary Victims: Friends, Family Members,
and Partners of Survivors Workshop”
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (2005)
“Kobe Bryant Discussion”
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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2004)
“Kobe Bryant Discussion”
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2003)
“Panel Discussion”
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Harvard University Kennedy School of
Government, Cambridge, MA (2002)
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Barnard College/Columbia University, New
York, NY (2005)
“Sepia Tone: Race, Culture and Healing from
Sexual Violence”
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS (2004)
“College Leaders Workshop”
North Lawndale College Prep, SOARS
performance, and “Girl/Friends Workshop”
Chicago, IL (2005)
North Lawndale College Prep, “Art Therapy
Violence Prevention Workshop”, Chicago, IL (2006)
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Past Appearances: Conferences
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National Sexual Conference, PCAR, Pittsburg, PA (2005)
“Sepia Tone: Race, Culture and Healing from Sexual Violence”
& “Secondary Victims: Friends, Family Members, and Partners of Survivors Workshop “
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3rd National Sexual Violence Prevention Conference (2004)
Mini-“Story of a Rape Survivor” performance
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SisterSong Conference on Reproductive Health, Atlanta, GA (2003)
Mini “Story of a Rape Survivor” performance
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Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Olympia, WA (2003)
“Story of a Rape Survivor” slideshow and photography exhibition
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Radical Women of Color Organizing Conference, University of Illinois of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2002)
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National Domestic Violence Conference, “Panel Discussion”, Philadelphia, PA (2002)
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Films
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"Rape Is...”, Cambridge Documentary Film. SOARS
photographs and poetry are featured in this awardwinning documentary about rape as a human rights
issue. (2002)
www.rapeis.org
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“NO!”, Afrolez® Productions, LLC. Interviews with A
Long Walk Home, Inc. co-founder Scheherazade
Tillet and SOARS photographs and poetry are
featured in this documentary film about intra-racial
sexual violence against African-American women and
girls. (2006)
www.notherapedocumentary.org
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CONTACT
INFORMATION
Website: www.alongwalkhome.org
Email: info@alongwalkhome.org
Phone & Fax: 1-877-571-1751
Executive Director:
Scheherazade Tillet
Email: sher@alongwalkhome.org
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