Sikivu Hutchinson
Sikivu Hutchinson is the founder of the Women’s Leadership Project, a feminist-humanist mentoring program for girls of color in South Los Angeles, and of Black Skeptics Los Angeles. Her most recent book is White Nights, Black Paradise, a novel on Peoples Temple and the 1978 Jonestown massacre. She is currently working on a book on intersectional feminism, atheism, and humanism.
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
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
Do All Black Lives Matter?
LAST YEAR I took my six-year-old daughter to a demonstration and die-in in Hollywood. Across the globe, protestors from every walk of life had... Read More
Police Criminals & the Brutalization of Black Girls
In Alice Walker’s short story “The Flowers” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. Walker contrasts... Read More
Women “Equal” in STEM Hiring? Not So Fast
To all the white scientists reading this, raise your hand high if you’ve ever been mistaken for “the help” in your university or government-funded... Read More