Sikivu Hutchinson
Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars as well as the novel and stage play, White Nights: Black Paradise. Her web-series Narcolepsy, Inc. debuts this week at Stareable.
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Gospel of Rape and Redemption
“Won’t people get mad if we criticize religion in our presentation?” My student asked. She was referring to the prevalence of sexual abuse allegations... Read More
Why “Five Fierce Humanists”?
Several months ago, after seeing issue after issue of the Humanist magazine with white folks on the cover, I approached editor Jennifer Bardi with... Read More
Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie
In her groundbreaking new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Black lesbian activist attorney Andrea J. Ritchie... Read More
Segregation Now and Forever: Betsy DeVos and the Looting of Public Education
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.” This was white supremacist Alabama Governor George Wallace’s epic battle cry in his infamous 1963 inaugural speech... Read More
To Be Young, Gifted, Secular, and Black
Black youth who reject organized religion don’t have the social and economic benefits of white privilege to blunt their "apostasy." ALTHOUGH IN THE UNITED... Read More
Whose Bodies? Black Lives Matter and the Reproductive Justice Imperative
Over the past several years toxic canards like “abortion is black genocide” and “the most dangerous place for a black child is the womb,”... Read More
Book Excerpt: White Nights, Black Paradise
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple, a multiracial church with Pentecostal origins, died in a Guyana jungle settlement named... Read More