Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s Followers (356)

Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Website

http://patrissecullors.com

Genre

Biography, Nonfiction

edit data

Patrisse Cullors is a artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker, and an NAACP History Maker. She’s received many awards for activism and movement building, including being named by the Los Angeles Times as a Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century and a Glamour 2016 Woman of the Year. Patrisse is currently touring selective cities with her multimedia performance art piece POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied.

A self-described wife of Harriet Tubman, Patrisse Cullors has always been traveling on the path to freedom. Growing up with several of her loved ones experiencing incarceration and brutality at the hands of Patrisse Cullors is a artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. Cofounder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker, and an NAACP History Maker. She’s received many awards for activism and movement building, including being named by the Los Angeles Times as a Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century and a Glamour 2016 Woman of the Year. Patrisse is currently touring selective cities with her multimedia performance art piece POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied.

A self-described wife of Harriet Tubman, Patrisse Cullors has always been traveling on the path to freedom. Growing up with several of her loved ones experiencing incarceration and brutality at the hands of the state and coming out as queer at an early age, she has since worked tirelessly promoting law enforcement accountability across the world while focusing on addressing trauma and building on the resilience and health of the communities most affected.

When Patrisse was 16-years-old she came out as queer and moved out of her home in the Valley. She formed close connections with other young, queer, woman who were dealing with the challenges of poverty and being Black and Brown in the USA. At 22-years-old Patrisse was recognized for her work as a transformative organizer by receiving the Mario Savio Young Activist Award. A Fulbright Scholarship recipient, Patrisse received her degree in religion and philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. That same year she curated her first performance art piece that fearlessly addressed the violence of incarceration, STAINED: An Intimate Portrayal of State Violence. Touring that performance lead to the formation of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence and eventually her non-profit Dignity and Power Now, both of whom have achieved several victories for the abolitionist movement including the formation of Los Angeles’ first civilian oversight commission over the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

In the summer of 2013 fueled by the acquittal granted to George Zimmerman after his murder of Trayvon Martin, Patrisse co-founded a global movement with a hashtag. Black Lives Matter has since grown to an international organization with dozens of chapters and thousands of determined activists fighting anti-Black racism world-wide.

In 2014 Patrisse was honored with the Contribution to Oversight Award by the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) recognizing her work to initiate civilian oversight in Los Angeles jails. Patrisse then completed a fellowship at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership where she prepared and led a think tank on state and vigilante violence for the Without Borders Conference. There she produced and directed the first in a series of theatrical pieces titled POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied.

In 2015 Patrisse was named a NAACP History Maker, a finalist for The Advocate’s Person of the Year, a Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century by the Los Angeles Times, and was invited to the White House. Google awarded Patrisse with their Racial Justice Grant to support her ongoing Ella Baker Center project developing a rapid response network that will mobilize communities to respond radically to law enforcement violence, the Justice Teams for Truth and Reinvestment. In conjunction with the Justice Teams Patrisse is also supporting the ACLU’s development of their Mobile Justice app. Patrisse works with many organizations worldwide.

2016 was a strong year for Patrisse. She delivered the keynote address at over a dozen colleges and universities including American University, The University of Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell. She was named a Leading Edge Fund Fellow by The Rosenberg Foundation, a Senior Fellow for Maternal Mortality by MomsRising, a Kick-Ass Woman of Color by DLG Media, and received the Defender of the Dream Award from th ...more

13 posts
Patrisse Khan-Cullors's Blog

Patrisse Khan-Cullors isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

Launch of LA County #GOTV Voting Tour in Advance of Mid-Term Elections

NY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND COFOUNDER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS LAUNCHES LA COUNTY #GOTV VOTING TOUR IN ADVANCE OF MID-TERM ELECTIONS

November 2, 2018 – Los, Angeles, C.A. – On Friday, November 2, 2018, New York Times Bestselling Author and co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Khan Cullors will launch her Los Angeles County Get Out The Vote (#GOTV) initiative.

Patrisse will be t

Combine Editions
Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s books

Average rating: 4.46 · 25,732 ratings · 3,527 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword) 4.49 avg rating — 25,641 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World 4.14 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage by Amy Klobuchar (Foreword), Alia Shawkat (Contributor), Azure Antoinette (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 779 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin (Goodreads Author), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Contributor) 4.24 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani (Goodreads Author), Patrisse Khan-Cullors (Foreword), Rachelle Baker (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond (Editor/Narrator), Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Beyoncé Knowles (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Patrisse Khan-Cullors…

Quotes by Patrisse Khan-Cullors (?)

“What is the impact of not being valued?
How do you measure the loss of what a human being does not receive?”
― Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

tags: bigotry, black-lives-matter, prejudice, racism, value

26 likes

“The binary that makes a person either good or bad is a dangerously false one for the widest majority of people. I am beginning to see that more than a single truth can live at the same time and in the same person.”
― Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

20 likes

“Living in patriarchy means that the default inclination is to center men and their voices, not women and their work.”
― Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

17 likes

See all Patrisse Khan-Cullors's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Play Book Tag: Books to look forward to in 2018?	41	62	Jan 08, 2018 11:30AM
Ultimate Popsugar...: Black History Month	78	271	Feb 28, 2018 09:53PM
Ultimate Popsugar...: Week 10: 3/1 - 3/8	144	301	Mar 16, 2018 03:44PM
Ultimate Popsugar...: Women's History Month	27	173	Mar 22, 2018 04:42AM
Ultimate Popsugar...: Week 17: 4/19 - 4/26	135	225	May 06, 2018 01:40PM
500 Great Books B...: Laurie's 2018 Reading Women Challenge	27	41	Jul 28, 2018 02:50PM
Our Shared Shelf: Additional Books and Resources	21	2331	Aug 13, 2018 07:54AM
Black Coffee: * 2018 African-American Historical Fiction Book Nominations	40	147	Aug 25, 2018 11:32AM
Nothing But Readi...: BOOKS READ: Hermione Granger	825	319	Sep 01, 2018 08:55PM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Patrisse to Goodreads.