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Sikivu Hutchinson
Sikivu Hutchinson is an American feminist, novelist, playwright, and director. She is the author of The Rock ānā Roll Heretic (2021), Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020), White Nights, Black Paradise (2015), and Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars.
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Rock ānā Roll Heretic on stage: Black women and liberation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Itās āBlack Music Month,” and, in a parallel Juneteenth universe, Black folks would be given reparations for the looted labor of all the Black artists whose musical innovation powered the multi-billion-dollar empires of white rock icons like Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. From blues to rock, R&B, and beyond, early 20th-century working-class southern Black musicians were the backbone of the modern American music industry, yetā¦

How South LA BIPOC youth are shutting down ‘Donāt Say Gay’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nationwide, escalating homophobic and transphobic right-wing attacks are threatening the mental health and wellness of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming youth. This spring, Womenās Leadership Project 9th and 10th graders led presentations on LGBTQI+ school climate, identity, and allyship in South L.A. classrooms and during WLPās annual LGBTQI+ Youth of Color Institute. Utilizing GLSENās (Gay and Lesbian Student Education Network) school climate survey, they focused on the power of pronouns, respectingā¦

Black women and abortion on demand without apology
Reading Time: 4 minutes In her 1974 essay In Search of Our Motherās Gardens, Alice Walker wrote: Did you have a genius of a great-grandmother who died under some ignorant and depraved overseerās lash? Or was she required to bake biscuits for a lazy backwater tramp, when she cried out in her soul to paint watercolors of sunsetsā¦or was her body broken and forced to bear children (who were more often than not soldā¦

Supporting Black teachers under siege
Reading Time: 4 minutes Generations after Black secularist historian and scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what was initially dubbed āNegro History Week,” the continued struggle for Black self-determination in education is an indictment of American democracy. In his new book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, Harvard professor Jarvis Givens argues that āteaching and learning themselves continue to be āa means of escapeāā¦and a total critique of the currentā¦

Whatās faith got to do with it? Culturally relevant humanism and Black Gen Z
Reading Time: 4 minutes I came across the concept of agnosticism at the age of 12. The existence of the Christian God is an idea I stray farther away from, both because of the way people who identify under it constantly spread hate and lies, and because examples have been presented to me about the illegitimacy of the so called “Word of God”ā13 year-old Black agnostic Big revelationāthe global pandemic, a wrecking ball ofā¦
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