Sikivu Hutchinson
Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist and Heretical, the short story collection The Roar of Distant Engines and the founder of Black Skeptics L.A and the Women’s Leadership Project, a Black feminist humanist mentoring, advocacy and civic engagement program for Black girls, girls of color and BIPOC queer youth in South L.A.
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
Congratulations to the 2025 BSLA First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Scholarship Awardees
This article was originally posted on the website of Black Skeptics Los Angeles. In the midst of Trump administration backlash against and attacks on... Read More
Holding Space for Black Queer and Gender Non-Conforming Youth
In his 2020 Black queer “memoir manifesto,” All Boys Aren’t Blue, George M. Johnson stresses the importance of having affirming family as a gender-nonconforming young person... Read More
Reclaiming Black Queer Trancestors: Fighting K-12 Miseducation
Ask American adults across the political spectrum to name a U.S. Supreme Court case and the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision or the 1954 Brown... Read More
Black Skeptics LA Announces First in the Family Humanist Forward Freethought Awards
This article was originally posted on the website of Black Skeptics Los Angeles. In 2013, Black Skeptics Los Angeles initiated the First in the... Read More
Women of Color Beyond Belief 2022
During a virtual union meeting I attended as a shop steward in the spring, one of the facilitators launched into a prayer midway through... Read More
Sapphire Unbound: The Radical Imagination of bell hooks
“It is time for Sapphire to testify on her own behalf, in writing, complete with footnotes.” Regina Austin, “Sapphire Bound,” 1989. Driving L.A.’s cesspit... Read More
Walking by Sight, Not Faith
Coming from historically religious African American communities, Black atheists are routinely marginalized and stigmatized. Although the number of Black religious “nones” is growing, self-identified... Read More