Sikivu Hutchinson
Posts by Sikivu Hutchinson (page 5)
First in the Family Humanist Scholarship Winners
Earlier this year, Black Skeptics Los Angeles (BSLA) spearheaded its First in the Family Humanist Scholarship initiative, which focuses on providing resources to undocumented,... Read More
Celebrating Women
At an early age, black girls are branded as public menaces. They are suspended and expelled for “defiance” at greater rates than white boys... Read More
Leaving Jesus: Women of Color Beyond Faith
This article is an excerpt from Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (forthcoming February 2013). This article first appeared in The Feminist Wire. The... Read More
Our Feminist Future vs. God
Recently Republican senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock suggested that a pregnancy resulting from rape was “something that God intended to happen.” Mourdock’s Christian fascist views... Read More
The “Return” of the Welfare Queens: Feminism, Secularism, and Anti-Racism
“The percentage of white feminists who are concerned about racism is still a minority of the movement, and even within this minority those who... Read More
Black Churches and Blue-Eyed Jesuses
This article is adapted from Chapter Five of the author's 2011 book, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars. The first... Read More