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Patrisse Cullors

March 03, 2023

Patrisse Marie Khan-Cullors Brignac[3] (née Cullors-Brignac; born June 20, 1983) is an American activist, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, artist and writer. Cullors created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights. Cullors integrates ideas from critical theory, as well as social movements around the world, in her activism.[4] Cullors has written two books.

Patrisse Cullors
Cullors in 2015
Born
Patrisse Cullors

(1983-06-20) June 20, 1983 (age 39)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA)
University of Southern California (MFA)
Occupation(s)Activist, artist, writer
Notable workBlack Lives Matter
Spouse
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(m. 2016)​
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Children1

Early life and education

Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother Cherice Foley is a Jehovah's Witness. Her biological father was Gabriel Brignac, whom she did not meet until she was eleven years old. She was raised in the home of Alton Cullors, who used to work at a General Motors plant in Van Nuys before it was shut down, forcing him to work in low-paying jobs. She has three siblings — two brothers named Paul and Monte, and a sister named Jasmine.[5][6] Gabriel was a repeat offender who was jailed many times on drugs-related charges and died in 2009 in a homeless shelter.[7][8] Cullors described him as having a constant and caring presence in her life.[9]

Cullors grew up in a Section 8 apartment in Van Nuys, a poor and largely Mexican-American neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.[10][11] Her step-father Alton eventually left his family, leaving Cherice to raise her kids on her own.[12] Cullors said that she witnessed her 11 and 13-year-old brothers being needlessly slammed into a wall by police when she was 9 years old.[13] At the age of 12, she was arrested for smoking marijuana.[14] At this time, she was a student at Millikan Middle School, an affluent mostly-white school for gifted kids in Sherman Oaks. Cullors describes that she felt ashamed going there with her mother in a car, borrowed from their neighbor and Monte's on-and-off girlfriend Cynthia, since it was in a state of disrepair.[15][6] She also states that it was the white girls at the school who introduced her to weed. However, when she was arrested, she was attending the Van Nuys Middle School, a school consisting mostly of children of working-class families and non-whites, as part of summer school, due to her poor grades. For her, the transition was a shock, as the school had a metal detector and was guarded by police unlike her other school.[16][6]

Monte was arrested in 1999 after robbing his mother's car. Later he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. In a fight with prison officers, he was allegedly choked, beaten up brutally, and was forced to drink toilet water.[13][17] Patrisse has cited this as one of the reasons for her activism.[17] Cullors became an activist early in life, joining the Bus Riders Union (BRU) under the leadership of Eric Mann as a teenager[10][18] during which time she attended a year-long organizing program led by the Labor Community Strategy Center (which organized the BRU).[19][20] She learned about revolutionaries, critical theory and social movements from around the world, while practicing activism.[4] Cullors also enrolled at Grover Cleveland High School (now Cleveland Humanities Magnet) in Reseda and was admitted into its social justice magnet program.[21][22] She went onto acquire a degree in religion and philosophy at UCLA, as well as a MFA from the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.[10][23]

Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her queer identity to her parents.[24] Raised as a Jehovah's Witness, but due to her mother's teenage pregnancy, Cullors' immediate family was shunned by both the church and their extended family members; she remained committed to the faith for years, even in exile, but later grew disillusioned with the church.[13] She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious tradition of Ifá, incorporating its rituals into political protest events. She told an interviewer in 2015 that "seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions—how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life."[25]

Career

 
Cullors speaking in 2015

Cullors teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in the Public Practice Program.[26] She also teaches in the Master's Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College.[27][28]

Black Lives Matter

Along with community organizers and friends Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, Cullors founded Black Lives Matter.[29][30] The three started the movement out of frustration over George Zimmerman's acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin.[31] Cullors created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in 2013 to corroborate Garza's use of the phrase in making a Facebook post about the Martin case.[32] Cullors further described her impetus for pushing for African-American rights stemming from her 19-year-old brother's brutalization during imprisonment in Los Angeles County jails.[33]

Cullors and her BLM co-founders, Garza and Tometi, set out to build a decentralized movement governed by consensus of a members' collective and in 2015, a network of chapters was formed. Cullors has been the most publicly visible of the co-founders, especially after Garza and Tometi stepped back from regular involvement in the organization.[34] She credits social media being instrumental in revealing violence against African Americans, saying: "On a daily basis, every moment, black folks are being bombarded with images of our death ... It's literally saying, 'Black people, you might be next. You will be next, but in hindsight it will be better for our nation, the less of our kind, the more safe it will be."[35]

In 2017, she said that the movement would not meet with United States president Donald Trump just as it wouldn't have met with Adolf Hitler, as Trump "is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country — be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia."[36][37]

In May 2021 (after holding the position for six years which included setting up the organization's infrastructure) Cullors resigned from her formal role as executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, to focus on her second book and a multi-year TV deal with Warner Bros. She said that her resignation had nothing to do with alleged attempts to discredit her and that it had been planned for over a year. Cullors said "I think I will probably be less visible, because I won't be at the helm of one of the largest, most controversial organizations right now in the history of our movement...But no movement is one leader."[34][38]

Other activism

She has served as executive director of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails.[32] The group advocated for a civilian commission to oversee the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in order to curb abuses by officers. By organizing former jail inmates as a voting bloc, the group hoped to sway the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to create such a commission, as well as gather enough votes to elect a replacement for L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, who resigned in 2014 for separate reasons.[39] However, the group did not succeed in its efforts.

Cullors co-founded the prison activist organization Dignity and Power Now, which succeeded in advocating for a civilian oversight board.[40]

She is also a board member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, having led a think tank on state and vigilante violence for the 2014 Without Borders Conference.[41] In October 2020, she launched a production company with a deal with Warner Bros. Television.[42]

Ideology and policy positions

Cullors defines herself as a prison, police and "militarization" abolitionist,[43] a position she says is inspired by "a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas".[44] She also favors reparations for what she describes as "the historical pains and damage caused by European settler colonialism", in various forms, such "financial restitution, land redistribution, political self-determination, culturally relevant education programs, language recuperation, and the right to return (or repatriation)".[43]

She cites the activist and formerly incarcerated Weather Underground member Eric Mann, as her mentor during her early activist years at the Bus Riders Union of Los Angeles.[45] She draws on various ideological inspirations. One is black feminists such as Audre Lorde and her "Black, queer, feminist lens",[43] as well as bell hooks : both "helped [her] understand [her] identity".[13] She cites Angela Davis for her "political theories and reflections on anticapitalist movements around the world", her work towards "a broader antiracist and antiwar movement", and her fight against white supremacy in the United States. Frantz Fanon is another inspiration, his "work on colonial violence in Algeria and across the Third World [making] timely connections" for the understanding of the context in which Black people live across the world.[43] She also cites Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, as "provid[ing] a new understanding around what our economies could look like".[13][46]

Asked whether she believed in violence as a method of protest, she has said that she believes in "direct action, but nonviolent direct action", and that this was also the belief of the Black Lives Matter movement.[37]

In February 2020, she co-endorsed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[47]

Works

In 2014 Cullors produced the theatrical piece POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied, which debuted at Highways Performance Space.[48] She has contributed articles about the movement to the LA Progressive,[49] including an article from December 2015 titled "The Future of Black Life"[50] which pushed the idea that activists could no longer wait for the State to take action, and called her followers into action by encouraging them to begin building the world that they want to see.

Books

Cullors' memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir[51][52] was published in January 2018. It was co-written with the journalist asha bandele[53] and featured a foreword from Angela Davis. The book has two parts, All the Bones We Could Find, which narrates her adolescence, and Black Lives Matter, which explains how those experiences led up to her to co-establishing the social justice group. The book deals with the imprisonment and disenfranchisement of black men like her father, incarceration "is how our society responded to his drug use...I think we have a crisis of divesting from poor communities, black communities in particular, and reinvesting into these communities with police, jails, courts, prisons".[13] In the 13th chapter A Call, A Response, Cullors outlines the first series of marches she, Garza and Tometi organized in the wake of Zimmerman's acquittal. The chapter concludes: "We are a generation called to action."[13] The Times Literary Supplement regarded the book as a "magnificent accomplishment."[54] It appeared at number 12 on the nonfiction hardcover The New York Times Best Seller list on February 4, 2018.[55]

Her second book was released by St Martin's Press on 25 January 2022, titled An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Change Yourself and the World. Cullors describes it as a guide for activists on how to take care of each other and resolve internal conflicts while campaigning.[34][56]

Documentary and television/film

Cullors appeared in the 2016 documentary Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement. In October 2020 she signed her first 'overall deal' with Warner Brothers, a multi-year agreement that will see Cullors develop and produce original programming across all platforms, including broadcast, cable and streaming, aimed at amplifying Black Lives Matter, black storytelling, and black perspectives.[57] Cullors produced the YouTube Originals series Resist, which premiered November 18, 2020.[58]

Personal life

Cullors identifies as queer.[24] In 2016, she married Janaya Khan, a social activist who co-founded Black Lives Matter Toronto.[b][61][62]

On January 3, 2023, Cullors's cousin Keenan Anderson died after an incident involving Los Angeles Police officers following a traffic accident. One officer put an elbow on Anderson's neck, while another tased him for around thirty seconds, with Anderson at one point saying "They’re trying to George Floyd me". He was taken to a hospital, where he went into cardiac arrest four and a half hours later and died. A toxicology report found cocaine in Anderson's system. A cause of death has not been released.[63][64]

Property controversies

In 2021, a controversy arose in some media outlets, following reports that Cullors (or entities associated with her) had purchased several homes during a five-year period.[65] Critics accused her of using the Black Lives Matter movement to enrich herself and accused her of being hypocritical for purchasing the houses as someone who identifies as a "Marxist".[65][66] Cullors denied any wrongdoing and defended her actions as an effort to take care of her family and described the criticism as an "effort to discredit and harass me and my family" by the political right. On April 13, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation denied that it had paid for her purchases of real estate and said they had not paid her since 2019, adding that she had only received $120,000 since 2013 for carrying out her work related to the organization.[65][66][67][68]

Some BLM activists accused her of "monopolizing and capitalizing our fight." Ten local chapters of the Foundation claimed that Cullors became its executive director “against the will of most chapters and without their knowledge,” that chapter organizers were prevented from influencing the group's direction, and that the national organization provided little to no financial support for local chapters since its inception in 2013. Cullors resigned from leadership of the Foundation the next month, and later revealed psychological exhaustion from the controversy, stating that she was receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.[69]

In 2022, she denied allegations of misusing donations given to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, but admitted that she hosted two parties at a mansion the BLM foundation purchased for $6 million, which she regretted.[70]

Awards

Notes

  1. ^ In April 2022, a statement by Khan’s spokesperson claimed that they had separated in 2017.[1] However, a February 2022 story by The Guardian reported that they were living together.[2]
  2. ^ In April 2022, a statement by Khan’s spokesperson claimed that they had separated in 2017.[59] However, a February 2022 story by The Guardian reported that they were living together.[60]

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Patrisse Marie Khan Cullors Brignac 3 nee Cullors Brignac born June 20 1983 is an American activist co founder of the Black Lives Matter movement artist and writer Cullors created the BlackLivesMatter hashtag in 2013 and has written and spoken widely about the movement Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights Cullors integrates ideas from critical theory as well as social movements around the world in her activism 4 Cullors has written two books Patrisse CullorsCullors in 2015BornPatrisse Cullors 1983 06 20 June 20 1983 age 39 Los Angeles California U S NationalityAmericanEducationUniversity of California Los Angeles BA University of Southern California MFA Occupation s Activist artist writerNotable workBlack Lives MatterSpouseJanaya Khan m 2016 wbr a Children1 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Black Lives Matter 2 2 Other activism 2 3 Ideology and policy positions 3 Works 3 1 Books 3 2 Documentary and television film 4 Personal life 4 1 Property controversies 5 Awards 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksEarly life and educationCullors was born in Los Angeles California Her mother Cherice Foley is a Jehovah s Witness Her biological father was Gabriel Brignac whom she did not meet until she was eleven years old She was raised in the home of Alton Cullors who used to work at a General Motors plant in Van Nuys before it was shut down forcing him to work in low paying jobs She has three siblings two brothers named Paul and Monte and a sister named Jasmine 5 6 Gabriel was a repeat offender who was jailed many times on drugs related charges and died in 2009 in a homeless shelter 7 8 Cullors described him as having a constant and caring presence in her life 9 Cullors grew up in a Section 8 apartment in Van Nuys a poor and largely Mexican American neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley 10 11 Her step father Alton eventually left his family leaving Cherice to raise her kids on her own 12 Cullors said that she witnessed her 11 and 13 year old brothers being needlessly slammed into a wall by police when she was 9 years old 13 At the age of 12 she was arrested for smoking marijuana 14 At this time she was a student at Millikan Middle School an affluent mostly white school for gifted kids in Sherman Oaks Cullors describes that she felt ashamed going there with her mother in a car borrowed from their neighbor and Monte s on and off girlfriend Cynthia since it was in a state of disrepair 15 6 She also states that it was the white girls at the school who introduced her to weed However when she was arrested she was attending the Van Nuys Middle School a school consisting mostly of children of working class families and non whites as part of summer school due to her poor grades For her the transition was a shock as the school had a metal detector and was guarded by police unlike her other school 16 6 Monte was arrested in 1999 after robbing his mother s car Later he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder In a fight with prison officers he was allegedly choked beaten up brutally and was forced to drink toilet water 13 17 Patrisse has cited this as one of the reasons for her activism 17 Cullors became an activist early in life joining the Bus Riders Union BRU under the leadership of Eric Mann as a teenager 10 18 during which time she attended a year long organizing program led by the Labor Community Strategy Center which organized the BRU 19 20 She learned about revolutionaries critical theory and social movements from around the world while practicing activism 4 Cullors also enrolled at Grover Cleveland High School now Cleveland Humanities Magnet in Reseda and was admitted into its social justice magnet program 21 22 She went onto acquire a degree in religion and philosophy at UCLA as well as a MFA from the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California 10 23 Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her queer identity to her parents 24 Raised as a Jehovah s Witness but due to her mother s teenage pregnancy Cullors immediate family was shunned by both the church and their extended family members she remained committed to the faith for years even in exile but later grew disillusioned with the church 13 She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious tradition of Ifa incorporating its rituals into political protest events She told an interviewer in 2015 that seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight a fight for my life 25 Career Cullors speaking in 2015 Cullors teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in the Public Practice Program 26 She also teaches in the Master s Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College 27 28 Black Lives Matter Along with community organizers and friends Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi Cullors founded Black Lives Matter 29 30 The three started the movement out of frustration over George Zimmerman s acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin 31 Cullors created the hashtag BlackLivesMatter in 2013 to corroborate Garza s use of the phrase in making a Facebook post about the Martin case 32 Cullors further described her impetus for pushing for African American rights stemming from her 19 year old brother s brutalization during imprisonment in Los Angeles County jails 33 Cullors and her BLM co founders Garza and Tometi set out to build a decentralized movement governed by consensus of a members collective and in 2015 a network of chapters was formed Cullors has been the most publicly visible of the co founders especially after Garza and Tometi stepped back from regular involvement in the organization 34 She credits social media being instrumental in revealing violence against African Americans saying On a daily basis every moment black folks are being bombarded with images of our death It s literally saying Black people you might be next You will be next but in hindsight it will be better for our nation the less of our kind the more safe it will be 35 In 2017 she said that the movement would not meet with United States president Donald Trump just as it wouldn t have met with Adolf Hitler as Trump is literally the epitome of evil all the evils of this country be it racism capitalism sexism homophobia 36 37 In May 2021 after holding the position for six years which included setting up the organization s infrastructure Cullors resigned from her formal role as executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to focus on her second book and a multi year TV deal with Warner Bros She said that her resignation had nothing to do with alleged attempts to discredit her and that it had been planned for over a year Cullors said I think I will probably be less visible because I won t be at the helm of one of the largest most controversial organizations right now in the history of our movement But no movement is one leader 34 38 Other activism She has served as executive director of the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L A Jails 32 The group advocated for a civilian commission to oversee the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department in order to curb abuses by officers By organizing former jail inmates as a voting bloc the group hoped to sway the L A County Board of Supervisors to create such a commission as well as gather enough votes to elect a replacement for L A County Sheriff Lee Baca who resigned in 2014 for separate reasons 39 However the group did not succeed in its efforts Cullors co founded the prison activist organization Dignity and Power Now which succeeded in advocating for a civilian oversight board 40 She is also a board member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights having led a think tank on state and vigilante violence for the 2014 Without Borders Conference 41 In October 2020 she launched a production company with a deal with Warner Bros Television 42 Ideology and policy positions Cullors defines herself as a prison police and militarization abolitionist 43 a position she says is inspired by a legacy of black led anti colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas 44 She also favors reparations for what she describes as the historical pains and damage caused by European settler colonialism in various forms such financial restitution land redistribution political self determination culturally relevant education programs language recuperation and the right to return or repatriation 43 She cites the activist and formerly incarcerated Weather Underground member Eric Mann as her mentor during her early activist years at the Bus Riders Union of Los Angeles 45 She draws on various ideological inspirations One is black feminists such as Audre Lorde and her Black queer feminist lens 43 as well as bell hooks both helped her understand her identity 13 She cites Angela Davis for her political theories and reflections on anticapitalist movements around the world her work towards a broader antiracist and antiwar movement and her fight against white supremacy in the United States Frantz Fanon is another inspiration his work on colonial violence in Algeria and across the Third World making timely connections for the understanding of the context in which Black people live across the world 43 She also cites Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong as provid ing a new understanding around what our economies could look like 13 46 Asked whether she believed in violence as a method of protest she has said that she believes in direct action but nonviolent direct action and that this was also the belief of the Black Lives Matter movement 37 In February 2020 she co endorsed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries 47 WorksIn 2014 Cullors produced the theatrical piece POWER From the Mouths of the Occupied which debuted at Highways Performance Space 48 She has contributed articles about the movement to the LA Progressive 49 including an article from December 2015 titled The Future of Black Life 50 which pushed the idea that activists could no longer wait for the State to take action and called her followers into action by encouraging them to begin building the world that they want to see Books Cullors memoir When They Call You a Terrorist A Black Lives Matter Memoir 51 52 was published in January 2018 It was co written with the journalist asha bandele 53 and featured a foreword from Angela Davis The book has two parts All the Bones We Could Find which narrates her adolescence and Black Lives Matter which explains how those experiences led up to her to co establishing the social justice group The book deals with the imprisonment and disenfranchisement of black men like her father incarceration is how our society responded to his drug use I think we have a crisis of divesting from poor communities black communities in particular and reinvesting into these communities with police jails courts prisons 13 In the 13th chapter A Call A Response Cullors outlines the first series of marches she Garza and Tometi organized in the wake of Zimmerman s acquittal The chapter concludes We are a generation called to action 13 The Times Literary Supplement regarded the book as a magnificent accomplishment 54 It appeared at number 12 on the nonfiction hardcover The New York Times Best Seller list on February 4 2018 55 Her second book was released by St Martin s Press on 25 January 2022 titled An Abolitionist s Handbook 12 Steps to Change Yourself and the World Cullors describes it as a guide for activists on how to take care of each other and resolve internal conflicts while campaigning 34 56 Documentary and television film Cullors appeared in the 2016 documentary Stay Woke The Black Lives Matter Movement In October 2020 she signed her first overall deal with Warner Brothers a multi year agreement that will see Cullors develop and produce original programming across all platforms including broadcast cable and streaming aimed at amplifying Black Lives Matter black storytelling and black perspectives 57 Cullors produced the YouTube Originals series Resist which premiered November 18 2020 58 Personal lifeCullors identifies as queer 24 In 2016 she married Janaya Khan a social activist who co founded Black Lives Matter Toronto b 61 62 On January 3 2023 Cullors s cousin Keenan Anderson died after an incident involving Los Angeles Police officers following a traffic accident One officer put an elbow on Anderson s neck while another tased him for around thirty seconds with Anderson at one point saying They re trying to George Floyd me He was taken to a hospital where he went into cardiac arrest four and a half hours later and died A toxicology report found cocaine in Anderson s system A cause of death has not been released 63 64 Property controversies In 2021 a controversy arose in some media outlets following reports that Cullors or entities associated with her had purchased several homes during a five year period 65 Critics accused her of using the Black Lives Matter movement to enrich herself and accused her of being hypocritical for purchasing the houses as someone who identifies as a Marxist 65 66 Cullors denied any wrongdoing and defended her actions as an effort to take care of her family and described the criticism as an effort to discredit and harass me and my family by the political right On April 13 the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation denied that it had paid for her purchases of real estate and said they had not paid her since 2019 adding that she had only received 120 000 since 2013 for carrying out her work related to the organization 65 66 67 68 Some BLM activists accused her of monopolizing and capitalizing our fight Ten local chapters of the Foundation claimed that Cullors became its executive director against the will of most chapters and without their knowledge that chapter organizers were prevented from influencing the group s direction and that the national organization provided little to no financial support for local chapters since its inception in 2013 Cullors resigned from leadership of the Foundation the next month and later revealed psychological exhaustion from the controversy stating that she was receiving treatment for post traumatic stress disorder 69 In 2022 she denied allegations of misusing donations given to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation but admitted that she hosted two parties at a mansion the BLM foundation purchased for 6 million which she regretted 70 Awards2007 Mario Savio Young Activist of the Year 71 An NAACP History Maker 2015 72 With Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza as The Women of BlackLivesMatter listed as one of the nine runners up for The Advocate s Person of the Year 2015 73 A Glamour Woman of the Year 2016 74 One of Fortune s World s Greatest Leaders 2016 75 An honorary doctorate from Clarkson University 76 among several others the 2018 recipient of the Jose Munoz Award from CLAGS The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center 77 In 2015 the Los Angeles Times named her one of The new civil rights leaders 78 In June 2020 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade Queerty named her among the fifty heroes leading the nation toward equality acceptance and dignity for all people 79 80 In 2020 she was included on Time s list of the 100 most influential people in the world 81 Cullors was on the list of the BBC s 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020 82 Along with Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza Cullors was named the 2013 Women of the Year by Time in 2020 as part of their 100 Women of the Year project 83 Notes In April 2022 a statement by Khan s spokesperson claimed that they had separated in 2017 1 However a February 2022 story by The Guardian reported that they were living together 2 In April 2022 a statement by Khan s spokesperson claimed that they had separated in 2017 59 However a February 2022 story by The Guardian reported that they were living together 60 References Campbell Sean April 4 2022 Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a 6 Million House nymag com Malik Nesrine February 28 2022 I have a lot of resentment Patrisse Cullors on co founding Black Lives Matter the backlash and why the police must go theguardian com Gyarkye Lovia February 15 2018 Arrested at 12 She s Now an Activist Fighting for Social Justice The New York Times Retrieved May 30 2021 a b Walcott Rianna April 5 2018 How the founder of Black Lives Matter started a global movement Dazed digital Retrieved August 1 2020 Rankin Seija November 6 2020 Patrisse Cullors loves To Kill a Mockingbird and thinks everyone should read Octavia E Butler Entertainment Weekly Retrieved May 31 2021 a b c When They Call You a Terrorist The Life of Black Lives Matter Co Founder Patrisse Khan Cullors Democracy Now 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