Leslye Joy Allen
@leslyejoyallen.bsky.social
Historian, Oral Historian, Dramaturge, Agnes Scott College & Georgia State University alum, She/Her,
🚫DMs, 🚫TERFS, 🚫Crypto,
🚫MAGA.
#ILoveAllOfUs✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🌈🏳️⚧️™️
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🚫DMs, 🚫TERFS, 🚫Crypto,
🚫MAGA.
#ILoveAllOfUs✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🌈🏳️⚧️™️
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On her book tour: Kamala Harris and Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones at HBCU Fisk University!
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
On her book tour: Kamala Harris and Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones at HBCU Fisk University!
Happy Thanksgiving.
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A Thanksgiving Moment
Thanks-For-Giving
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November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Omg!!! This is spectacular 🙌 💪
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Omg!!! This is spectacular 🙌 💪
From a few years back. Chelsea Gray (No. 12) makes this backhanded pass to Her Majesty A’ja Wilson (No. 22) of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
From a few years back. Chelsea Gray (No. 12) makes this backhanded pass to Her Majesty A’ja Wilson (No. 22) of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces.
Rest in Power Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Rest in Power Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
Yessssss. Keep going Adelita Grijalva! Show these wimps like Jeffries and Schumer how it is supposed to be done.
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BREAKING: In a stunning speech, the newly sworn in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva absolutely demolishes Trump and Republicans.
She is going to be a force.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yessssss. Keep going Adelita Grijalva! Show these wimps like Jeffries and Schumer how it is supposed to be done.
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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.”
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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!
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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!