Sikivu Hutchinson
Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist and Heretical and The Roar of Distant Engines and Other Stories. The January 31st Alpha Centauri screening will be followed by a panel discussion with community advocates Dr. Stephany Powell, Fantayjah Callis and Abene Clayton. Find more info here.
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
Standing For Black Girls During Human Trafficking Awareness Month
January was Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month. On Saturday, January 31st, the Women’s Leadership Project hosted the premier of my short film "Alpha... Read More
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