Mar 19, 2023 10:30 AM —  12:00 PM Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical | Sikivu Hutchinson | Weekly Sunday Gathering —  Baker Ripley, 6500 Rookin, Houston, TX

Music: Nicole Quinn

Speaker Bio:

Sikivu Hutchinson is an educator, author, playwright, and guitarist. Her books include Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical (2020), Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles (2003), Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (2011), and the novel White Nights, Black Paradise (2015), on Black women, Peoples Temple and the 1978 Jonestown massacre. She also wrote, directed and produced a short film and stage play of White Nights, Black Paradise and was awarded a “Humanities For All” grant from the California Humanities Foundation in 2019. Her articles have been published in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Religion Dispatches, The Humanist Magazine and the L.A. Times. She is the founder of Black Skeptics Los Angeles and the Women’s Leadership Project (WLP), a Black feminist humanist mentoring and civic engagement program for girls of color in South L.A and co-facilitator of the Black LGBTQ+ Parent and Caregiver group. Her latest novel, Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe (2021) debuted as a stage play with her original music at Hollywood Fringe in June 2022. She is also a recipient of the 2020 Harvard Humanist of the Year award and the 2021 Domestic Shelters "Outstanding Youth Leadership Initiative" award with the WLP. In her spare time, she enjoys playing guitar with her "garage band" Distant Engines.

Musician Bio :

Nicole Quinn is a confessional singer songwriter in Austin TX that will weave a tale through her own songs and reimagine your favorite classics in a way you haven't heard them before. These days you can find her traveling across Texas to perform in luxury hotels for travelers passing through.