Sikivu Hutchinson
Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of “Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist and Heretical” and the novel and play “White Nights, Black Paradise” on Black women, Peoples Temple and Jonestown. She is also the founder of the Women’s Leadership Project, A Black feminist mentoring and advocacy program for Black girls, girls of color and queer youth based in South L.A. Her sex trafficking prevention education film short “Alpha Centauri” debuted this year.
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
To Catch a Cult Predator: Black Women Beware
In the beginning of the grooming process, there is sweetness and light. The groomer wants you, acts like you’re the only one in the... Read More
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