Patrisse Khan-Cullors: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors

American artist and activist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 March 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Belinda Carlisle American singer

I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗

I’d give my younger self the lessons I’ve learned over the years, sparing myself the need to figure everything out so publicly.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗

Jessica Brown Findlay English actress

My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗

Mary McCartney English photographer and cookbook author

Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗