Meet Sikivu
Sikivu Hutchinson is a Black feminist, novelist, playwright and director. She is the author of The Roar of Distant Engines (2023), The Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic (2021), Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020), White Nights, Black Paradise (2015), Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (2011), and Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles (2003). Moral Combat is the first book on atheism to be published by an African-American woman. In 2013 she was named Secular Woman of the year and in 2020 she was a recipient of the Harvard Humanist of the Year award.
Sikivu Hutchinson is an American feminist, novelist, playwright and director. She is the author of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic (2021), Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020), White Nights, Black Paradise (2015), Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (2011), and Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles (2003). Moral Combat is the first book on atheism to be published by an African-American woman. In 2013 she was named Secular Woman of the year and in 2020 she was a recipient of the Harvard Humanist of the Year award.
To Catch a Cult Predator: Black Women Beware by Sikivu Hutchinson
By Sikivu Hutchinson 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 room, showers you with adulation, folds you into the embrace of a gushingly warm 24/7 community and immerses you in the seductive quicksand
Sikivu on the Black Jonestown Podcast: “Why They Came, Hope and the Black Community”
I was recently featured on the Black Jonestown podcast hosted by Jonestown survivor, author and activist Leslie Wagner Wilson: “In this episode, Leslie sits down with Sikivu Hutchinson to explore what drew so many Black families to the San Francisco area during the 1970s — and the deep sense of hope that the
Alpha Centauri to Screen at the Black August Film Festival!
Our prevention education film, Alpha Centauri , which centers the impact of sex trafficking on Black girls, is an official selection at the Black August Film Festival in Pasadena! The “Black August Film Festival is more than a film exhibition—it is a platform for education, dialogue, and cultural preservation. Rooted in the legacy of
Sikivu Hutchinson: Humanists in the Hood Book Talk and Music @ Lore Leimert
What is Black Feminist Humanism? Why and how is it relevant to Black women and Black people seeking alternatives to the dogmas, hierarchies, constraints and judgement of organized religion in an era of unrelenting white Christian nationalist attacks? What are the social and historical origins of Black secular humanism in
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