All posts by Sikivu Hutchinson
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Leaving Jesus: Women of Color Beyond Faith
By Sikivu Hutchinson The 24-hour prayer sessions are the true test of a warrior for Jesus. They require Herculean stamina, the patience of Job, the...
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The Spectator Sport of Bashing Black Women
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1990s, The O.J. Simpson murder trial polarized America and highlighted domestic violence as a national cause célèbre. At the center...
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"Praying Away the Gay" Gets the Smackdown
By Sikivu Hutchinson By banning so-called gay teen conversion therapy with his approval of SB 1172, California Governor Jerry Brown smacked down the forces of...
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Massa Mitt Does South of the Border
Over the past few months, the GOP has proudly reveled in Ronald Reagan’s old chestnut that “facts are stupid things.” First, Anne Romney told us...
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Beyond Starship Enterprise: Racism, Sexism, and the Science Pipeline
Decked out in a white lab coat straight from central casting, the African American science teacher featured in Target’s latest “Back to School” commercial is...
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Death of an Atheist Friend: Let the Faith Pimping Begin
The American death industry pimps heaven hard, squeals like a stuck pig about redemption, then tasks the faithful with collecting the bloody dividends. For the...
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Silence Equals Death: Sexual Violence and Young Women of Color
By Sikivu Hutchinson April is sexual assault awareness month. It also marks the global observance of Denim Day for sexual assault survivors. Black and mixed...
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White Picket Fences, White Innocence
By Sikivu Hutchinson Black children in America are never innocent. Innocence looks like Dick and Jane, our bright-eyed tour guides through the idyll of green...
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Ethnic Studies, MLK & Great Men
In one of the first scenes of the 2006 film Walkout, the day-glo radiance of L.A. suffuses a group of Lincoln High School seniors discussing...
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Our Feminist Future
On the school grounds they call each other bitches with machine gun fury. This is the “new” term of “endearment”; a grand show of eye-rolling,...
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The GOP’s Christian Nationalist Faith Pimps
In American politics, patriotism, race-baiting, and faith-based pandering are the last refuge of a scoundrel. And this political season militant GOP appeals to white Christian...
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The Christian Fascists’ Personhood Campaign
Taking its dangerous “life begins at conception” assault from State Legislature to State Legislature, one of the most dangerous political forces in the United States...
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Teenaged Nightmare: Violent Masculinity and Young Women of Color
They were carefree and besotted, joined at the hip, the epitome of a young couple steeped in the insular world of teen obsession. To some,...