13 Facts About Sikivu Hutchinson

Sikivu Hutchinson is an American author, playwright, director, and musician.

Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical ; White Nights, Black Paradise ; Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels ; Moral Combat: Black Atheists; Gender Politics, and the Values Wars ; and Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles.

Sikivu Hutchinson was a recipient of Harvard's 2020 Humanist of the Year award.

Sikivu Hutchinson has taught women's studies, urban studies, cultural studies, African American Humanism and education at the California Institute of the Arts, UCLA, Pitzer College, and Western Washington University.

Sikivu Hutchinson explores the emergence of black atheist and freethought activism and spotlights the voices of African American non-believers from around the country.

Sikivu Hutchinson believes that there is a large community of black non-believers on social media sites, but it is important for these people to find a "sanctuary from the hyper-religiosity that African-Americans are steeped in".

Sikivu Hutchinson has challenged the lack of racial diversity and attention to institutional racism in the secular and New Atheist movements.

Sikivu Hutchinson has championed the inclusion of anti-racism, anti-sexism, and anti-heterosexism in mainstream secular humanist and New Atheist discourse.

Sikivu Hutchinson has written extensively on the role of freethought and secular humanism in black women's liberation and gender justice.

In 2016, Sikivu Hutchinson criticized the merger of the secular organizations Center for Inquiry and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science which gave Richard Dawkins a seat on the board of directors of the Center for Inquiry.

Sikivu Hutchinson's criticism was that both organizations had an all-white board of directors.

Sikivu Hutchinson considers her activism in the humanist sphere to be inextricably bound to the other identities.

In 2012 Sikivu Hutchinson was featured in a national billboard campaign of prominent black non-believers launched by African Americans for Humanism.