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BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors debuts LA performance art piece that sees her lead group of women in matching white dresses tied together by their HAIR
Daily Mail ^ | 10/29/23 | Laura Parnaby

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: art; blackliesmatter; blm; blmcofounder; burnlootmurder; cullors; hair; homosexualagenda; lauraparnaby; oriwhispers; patrissecullors; white; yoruba
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To: Libloather

no tribute to marx?


21 posted on 10/29/2023 4:36:37 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Libloather

a scene from the new stepford wives?

handmaiden’s tale?


22 posted on 10/29/2023 4:39:24 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: kiryandil

Been a while since we had some steak. Mus b nize!


23 posted on 10/29/2023 4:56:18 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: Libloather

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.


24 posted on 10/29/2023 6:59:13 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Liz

A parade of Hippos dressed in white.


25 posted on 10/29/2023 7:48:38 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluiids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: Libloather

26 posted on 10/29/2023 7:53:55 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Everyone thinks you were executed. Stay dead - you'll live longer. (A. Breakspear, "Carnival Row"))
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To: Liz

Them look like shoplifting dresses.


27 posted on 10/30/2023 8:07:34 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Vaduz

That’s probably all they have.......shoplifting clothes.


28 posted on 10/30/2023 8:28:18 AM PDT by Liz (โ€œThe only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when heโ€™s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: Libloather

The Crocs are a nice touch. Hospital orderly footwear.


29 posted on 10/30/2023 11:29:05 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either โ€˜the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.โ€™ --Donald Trump)
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To: Liz

Yes many pockets under them


30 posted on 10/30/2023 2:04:23 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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