Leslye Joy Allen
@leslyejoyallen.bsky.social
Historian, Oral Historian, Dramaturge, Agnes Scott College & Georgia State University alum, She/Her,
🚫DMs, 🚫TERFS, 🚫Crypto,
🚫MAGA.
#ILoveAllOfUs✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🌈🏳️⚧️™️
https://leslyejoyallen.com/2025/09/06/baldwin-gaza-and-venezuela-open-letter-to-the-born-again-1979/
🚫DMs, 🚫TERFS, 🚫Crypto,
🚫MAGA.
#ILoveAllOfUs✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🌈🏳️⚧️™️
https://leslyejoyallen.com/2025/09/06/baldwin-gaza-and-venezuela-open-letter-to-the-born-again-1979/
Congratulations Zohran!!
New Yorkers have spoken and voted for change. Congrats Mayor-elect
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Congratulations Zohran!!
Let’s light it up for Mira Nair’s son Zohran!
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Zohran Mamdani Makes History As New York City's First American Muslim Mayor
Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Not the Finish Line — It’s the Starting Gun
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November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Let’s light it up for Mira Nair’s son Zohran!
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Yessssssssss!!
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Zohran Mamdani Makes History As New York City's First American Muslim Mayor
Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Not the Finish Line — It’s the Starting Gun
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November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Yessssssssss!!
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A beautiful throwback moment between my Brother-King Billy Porter as “Pray Tell” and my Daughter-Sister-Queen Michaela Jaé Rodriguez as “Blanca” on POSE.
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A beautiful throwback moment between my Brother-King Billy Porter as “Pray Tell” and my Daughter-Sister-Queen Michaela Jaé Rodriguez as “Blanca” on POSE.
I do photography sometimes. I photographed this a few years ago in honor of one of my favorite pianists Ahmad Jamal who often used two percussionists. I live for when the acorns start falling in this piece. Here is his “Acorn.”
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November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I do photography sometimes. I photographed this a few years ago in honor of one of my favorite pianists Ahmad Jamal who often used two percussionists. I live for when the acorns start falling in this piece. Here is his “Acorn.”
youtu.be/JZA47ydPtvg?...
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For Queen Sugar fans who will remember…
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
For Queen Sugar fans who will remember…
I love it!
Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff selfie from LA tour stop yesterday. 💙
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I love it!
Some history for fun, levity, and common sense…
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Kaffa and Common Sense
by © Leslye Joy Allen
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October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Some history for fun, levity, and common sense…
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Debbie Allen and Misty Copeland embrace after Copeland’s final performance with the American Ballet Theater.
Copeland is an alumna of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Yes, Goddess, Yes!
Copeland is an alumna of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Yes, Goddess, Yes!
October 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Debbie Allen and Misty Copeland embrace after Copeland’s final performance with the American Ballet Theater.
Copeland is an alumna of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Yes, Goddess, Yes!
Copeland is an alumna of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Yes, Goddess, Yes!
“I’M EVERY WOMAN” These are the people I belong to, for good.
I truly miss Black men like composer/lyricist Nick Ashford, performing here with his wife, master composer Valerie Simpson!
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I truly miss Black men like composer/lyricist Nick Ashford, performing here with his wife, master composer Valerie Simpson!
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Ashford & Simpson - I'm Every Woman - Live at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, New York City - 2008
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October 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“I’M EVERY WOMAN” These are the people I belong to, for good.
I truly miss Black men like composer/lyricist Nick Ashford, performing here with his wife, master composer Valerie Simpson!
youtu.be/cHgEGvUWcOU?...
I truly miss Black men like composer/lyricist Nick Ashford, performing here with his wife, master composer Valerie Simpson!
youtu.be/cHgEGvUWcOU?...
Fellow Atlantans, Go Vote Early or Vote on November 4, 2025!
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Fellow Atlantans, Go Vote Early or Vote on November 4, 2025!
Reposted by Leslye Joy Allen
I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
“If a glitch or a malfunction in Amazon Web Services East can create problems for most of the world’s businesses and consumers, then it has too much control and too much reach.”
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That Ominous Outage on October 20, 2025
by © Leslye Joy Allen
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October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“If a glitch or a malfunction in Amazon Web Services East can create problems for most of the world’s businesses and consumers, then it has too much control and too much reach.”
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It’s October 20th. So Happy Birthday Kamala Harris! This is one of my favorite photos of her in 1998 with her sister Maya on Maya’s wedding day.
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
It’s October 20th. So Happy Birthday Kamala Harris! This is one of my favorite photos of her in 1998 with her sister Maya on Maya’s wedding day.
Musician-Singer-Composer D'Angelo has died after a hard battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51-years-old. RIP.
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Musician-Singer-Composer D'Angelo has died after a hard battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51-years-old. RIP.
Columbus did not land on Turtle Island (what we now call the United States and Canada). He was looking for a sea route to India and China and landed on what is now called Trinidad. He led one of the worst navigation teams in human history; and was a greedy, blood thirsty opportunist.
HAPPY…
HAPPY…
October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Columbus did not land on Turtle Island (what we now call the United States and Canada). He was looking for a sea route to India and China and landed on what is now called Trinidad. He led one of the worst navigation teams in human history; and was a greedy, blood thirsty opportunist.
HAPPY…
HAPPY…
Same 💩. Different Hat.
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Same 💩. Different Hat.