Sikivu Hutchinson

Women's Leadership Project

Sikivu Hutchinson is the author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, the novel White Nights, Black Paradise and the 2018 speculative fiction play NARCOLEPSY, Inc. on corporate theocracy and the racial politics of sleep.

Hiring of Accused Atheist Leader Is Reminder That #MeToo Is Still Needed in Organized Atheism

Sikivu Hutchinson

Far from being a refuge from religious tyranny, mainstream atheism is just another microcosm of American gender and racial hierarchies.

Why White Women Are Leading Defenders of Kavanaugh

Sikivu Hutchinson

Central to victim shaming is the narrative that there are fundamentally good men who never cross the line but for the slutty behavior of irresponsible women and girls.

Atheists Miss Another #MeToo Moment

Sikivu Hutchinson

After a sexual assault scandal, American Atheists could have hired Mandisa Thomas, of the national Black Non-Believers organization, but instead chose yet another white man.

Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule Is State Violence

Sikivu Hutchinson

Being for reproductive justice is non-negotiable for a feminism based on economic justice.

SCOTUS ‘Right to Work’ Decision Especially Damaging to Women and People of Color

Sikivu Hutchinson

Black women are more likely to be employed in public-sector jobs than both white women and Black men, while making 60 cents to the dollar of white men.

Pope Compares Abortion to Nazi Eugenics

Sikivu Hutchinson

Comments like these demonstrate why the church poses a mortal threat to the lives, well-being, and earning power of women across the globe.

Dangerous Distortions: Anti-Choice Fascists and Third World Allies

Sikivu Hutchinson & Dangerous Distortions: Anti-Choice Fascists and Third World Allies

On a recent Los Angeles talk radio show Louisiana state legislator John LaBruzzo lamented the “massacre” of millions of “baby women” by abortion. In this fascist’s warped mind abortion infringes on the civil rights of fetuses.