Sikivu Hutchinson
feminist/humanist,novelist, author of Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics & Values Wars, White Nights, Black Paradise & Rock n' Roll Heretic due 2020
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Rashida Tlaib's West Bank family: Ban shows reality of 'occupation'
UPI 37h 1 tweets
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib's family in a West Bank village told UPI on Friday they can't bear to tell her 90-year-old grandmother that the congresswoman is not coming to visit.
Sikivu Hutchinson Exposing everyday apartheid & colonial disenfranchisement of Palestinians: "The ban on Congresswoman #RashidaTlaib by Netanyahu shows the reality of the Israeli occupation, stealing land and hope," Head of the town council of Beit Ur Al-Fauqa in West Bank 37h
Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist and Heretical – Black Skeptics Group Los Angeles
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Sikivu Hutchinson #2020 "Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist and Heretical" Feminism & atheism are “dirty words” which Americans across the political spectrum love to hate and debate...in a toxic brew that defies 'decency', respectability and Americana 37h
BSLA 2019 First in the Family Humanist Scholarship Winners – Black Skeptics Group Los Angeles
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Sikivu Hutchinson "The First in the Fam scholarship was crucial to supporting my first year of college & affirming my sense of self & confidence as an undocumented student" Shout out to our supporters & congrats to the '19 FIF #Humanist Scholarship Winners! 38h
QFilms Festival 2019: Here are the movies you will be seeing
Q Voice News 4d 1 tweets
QFilms Festival 2019 will run from September 5 to 8 in Long Beach. The LGBTQ film festival will include features, shorts, and documentaries.
Black LGBTQI Family Support and Advocacy Group
Sikivu Hutchinson - LA Progressive 4d 1 tweets
Sikivu Hutchinson: Many queer Black youth report that there are no visible role models, curricula or cultural engagement that speaks to their lived experiences.
Sikivu Hutchinson K-12 Black queer youth are more likely to be pushed out of school & marginalized in LGBTQ-focused youth support systems On August 29th Join Black LGBTQI Family Support & Advocacy Group sponsored by 4d
7-year-old was 7th child to die by gun violence in St. Louis since June
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ST. LOUIS -- Seven children under the age of 17 have been killed by gunfire in St. Louis since June, police told CNN. The most recent victim was Xavier Usanga, just 7 years old, who was shot and killed Monday, Aug. 12 while he and his sisters...
Sikivu Hutchinson 7 yr-old #XavierUsanga is the 7th child to die by gun violence in St. Louis since June. This week he was supposed to start second grade at Clay Elementary. Black children are more likely to die from or be traumatized by gun violence than non-Black kids 4d
Rally! TRUST STUDENTS: Provide. Expand. Demand.
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justCARE invites you to our first-ever "TRUST STUDENTS: PROVIDE, EXPAND, DEMAND" rally! California university students are mobilizing across the state for reproductive justice on college campuses: from abortion care to birth control access to...
Sikivu Hutchinson Many PoC CA college students rely on reproductive health &abortion care @ their campuses proud to co-sponsor rally #TrustStudents Sept. 3rd @ state Capitol in Sacramento #abortionrightsishumanrights #economicjustice 4d
From Brexit to El Paso: The Geopolitics of White Hate
TheHumanist.com 6d 2 tweets
We must mobilize progressive communities to ensure the destructive blight of global Trumpism doesn’t become a permanent human rights "experiment."
Sikivu Hutchinson My latest: "From #Brexit to El Paso: The Geopolitics of White Hate" On the bustling streets of Kensington in #London Black &South Asian women sounded off on the recent election of white nativist #BorisJohnsonPM & global white nationalist movements 6d
BSLA Catherine Fahringer scholarship winner Chinaza Onwubuemeli
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Sikivu Hutchinson Congrats to Humanist scholarship winner & freethinker/computer engineering major Chinaza Onwubuemeli: "Being a Catholic born in Nigeria where religion is taken strictly serious, I was taught to believe what the church said & that only" 6d
Kenya, Ladera Center Ralphs - This is important to our livelihoods
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Sikivu Hutchinson This week: CA Grocery workers are mobilizing for higher wages & benefits in rallies across the state: "Corporate grocery stores are making record profits but refuse to provide workers enough pay or hours to support themselves or their families" #foodfight 6d
This Is What Latinos Think Everyone Got Wrong About El Paso
POLITICO Magazine 9d 8 tweets
A well-meaning desire to erase the shooter and his hateful ideology has instead erased the victims and their community.
Sikivu Hutchinson Connecting the terrorism of #ElPasoShooting to the U.S. legacy of anti-Latinx violence & resistance “I am done being terrorized...My stepdad didn’t march and organize in the Chicano movement of the sixties for our generation to live in fear.” 7d
BSLA 2019 Catherine Fahringer Scholarship Winner Kaitlyn Farnan
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Kaitlyn Farnan discusses the stigma against non-believers and freethinkers and the need for targeted scholarships to facilitate their education
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Sikivu Hutchinson Congrats 2019 First in the Fam Scholarship Winner Kaitlyn Farnan! "Growing up in KS, it was taboo to label yourself atheist. I was taught that I was going to hell. This scholarship can help decrease the stigma of being non-religious" 8d
This radical Baptist church preaches LGBTQ hate just miles from California's Capitol
Hailey Branson-Potts - Los Angeles Times 16d 3 tweets
A fundamentalist Baptist church in Sacramento preaches hatred of LGBTQ people. Its network of churches with similar views is growing, and experts on extremism say they are concerned about the churches' spread of violent rhetoric through the internet.
Sikivu Hutchinson Inside CA-based violently homophobic/transphobic New Independent Fundamental Baptist church, a growing movement spreading its terrorist message of anti-LGBTQ hate across the nation, headed by Pastor Roger Jimenez who praised Orlando mass murders 9d
"Beloved" Author Toni Morrison Remembered and Celebrated
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Eso Won Books is a gathering spot for writers and readers.
Sikivu Hutchinson "Our past was appropriated. I am one of the people who has to reappropriate it" #ToniMorrison Remembered, Celebrated at L.A.'s premier Black-owned Bookstore in Leimert Park 9d
BSLA 2019 Catherine Fahringer Scholarship winner Ciah Russell
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Ciah Russell discusses the importance of relying on humans not deities.
Sikivu Hutchinson Congrats to First in Family Humanist scholarship winner&Biology major Ciah Russell: “Society relies too much on religion & I don’t agree with that. We should be honing our own traits as humans rather than relying on deities” 9d
Cyntoia Brown, Released from Prison, Plans to Use Her Experience to Help Women
The North Star 10d 1 tweets
Cyntoia Brown was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women on August 7 after serving 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was just 16 years old, the Department of Corrections announced. Days before her...
Sikivu Hutchinson #CyntoiaBrown, "Released from Prison, Plans to Use Her Experience to Help Women", prime example of racist disparities against Black sex trafficking victims 10d
How the Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline Criminalizes Black Girls
Sikivu Hutchinson - HuffPost 10d 1 tweets
Over the past several years, the movement to end sexual violence has been mainstreamed through social media, K-12 prevention programming and awaren...
Sikivu Hutchinson On a recent segment about racial disparities in criminalizing sex workers asked the racist/sexist question "Are most sex workers Black women" highlighting persistence of toxic historically misogynoirist stereotypes about Black women 10d
The Liberatory Power of Toni Morrison’s Pen
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The universe that we’ve inherited from Toni Morrison is: The pell mell swoon of Jazz and its mysterious crazy in love triangle set against the backdrop of the Great Migration of African Americans to NYC, caught up in its  golden glow and cruel...
Sikivu Hutchinson My piece on writing, #ToniMorrison &the untameable rogue imagination of little Black girls "The pell mell swoon of Jazz & its crazy in love triangle set against the Great Migration of Afr Ams to NYC caught up in its golden glow &cruel tease" 10d
White Picket Fences, White Innocence – The Feminist Wire
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Sikivu Hutchinson On #ToniMorrison 's Heart of whiteness grade school primer: "As metaphors for American innocence, Dick and Jane continue to taunt and terrorize. These are the bodies that 'matter', that are worthy of protection, that demand national security" #BluestEye 13d
Bluest Eye Revisited
Sikivu Hutchinson - LA Progressive 13d 1 tweets
Bluest Eye Revisited: Perhaps no other book has captured the ontology of black female childhood as devastatingly as Toni Morrison’s
Sikivu Hutchinson My literary heart has always belonged to #ToniMorrison: 2010 Her Black girl protagonists bear fierce witness to the psychological disfigurements of racism/sexism/segregation& savagery of being dehumanized in a culture that exalts the blue-eyed Barbie ideal 13d