Posted on 10/29/2023 3:27:48 PM PDT by Libloather
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors has made a rare public appearance in a performance art piece that involves a parade of women in white dresses bound together by their hair.
The California-born creator of the BlackLivesMatter hashtag led a procession of nine women as they walked from the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden to the Fowler Museum in a Los Angeles spectacle watched by thousands of people.
Known as Ori Whispers, the performance marked the opening of the museum's exhibition centering on the Yoruba diaspora - people from Nigeria, Benin, and Togo in West Africa who have moved across the Atlantic to Brazil, Cuba and the US.
The museum described the 'visually and spiritually dynamic procession' on Saturday as 'a celebration of Black femme Ori strength and power.'
In her Saturday performance piece, Cullors went barefoot and wore an off-white ankle-length dress with gauze sleeves as she led the procession of women, as they were each tied together by long black plaits of hair.
She looked expressionless as she walked with the other eight women trailing behind wearing brighter white dresses and crocs.
Ori is a Yoruba metaphysical concept tying together the themes of 'consciousness, individuality, and spiritual intuition' per the museum.
The museum's new exhibit, called The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond, features a multimedia installation by Cullors titled Free Us.
Cullors, 40, became a co-founder of BLM in 2013 before stepping down in 2021. The movement started in the courtyard of her Los Angeles home.
Now, Black Lives Matter's national organization is at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5million into the red last year - while simultaneously handing multiple staff seven-figure salaries.
It comes as it emerged in May that 33 percent of Black Lives Matter's accumulated donations...
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no tribute to marx?
a scene from the new stepford wives?
handmaiden’s tale?
Been a while since we had some steak. Mus b nize!
That’s... Fvckin’ weird. Okay.
As an artist myself, I understand wanting to make people think or to shock them, but... Give me a break.
A parade of Hippos dressed in white.
Them look like shoplifting dresses.
That’s probably all they have.......shoplifting clothes.
The Crocs are a nice touch. Hospital orderly footwear.
Yes many pockets under them
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