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Megan Braden-Perry🌸

@meganbradenperry.com
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Journalist, author, mom. New Orleans native and resident. Love food, nature and thrifting. HBCU alum! Black Creole girl from the 7th Ward! Rooting for *almost* everybody Black. 🌼 meganbradenperry.com Instagram.com/megandoesnola

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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 27/07/2026
NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS! Landing in your email tomorrow morning (Monday)! P.S. You have til 3:33 a.m. tonight to subscribe! meganbradenperry.com/newsletter ♥️
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 06/07/2026
Life’s a paradox for me, though I know God will provide. Yes, I moderated an Essence panel and was on the news talking about great restaurants to visit w/a press trip soon! No, I dunno how I'll pay my $1,500 rent and utilities during this work dry spell. God has kept me though, and always will.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 24/06/2026
To learn more about The New Orleans East Sunshine Weekly, visit instagram.com/thenoesunshine and givebutter.com/thenoesunshine!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/06/2026
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/06/2026
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/06/2026
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/06/2026
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 03/04/2026
Howdy! Been wanting to share my favorite novenas with you for such a long time, and am finally doing it now! Check them out, if you're into that sort of thing. (I think we should all be into miracles, but I truly understand if prayer isn't your jam. Links in comments, photo for Al Gore's rhythm. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 01/03/2026
Trying something new! I really hate having to be online, so I’m trying to use a social media scheduler. This app is called OneUp, and I’ll try Later again later. Random photo for obvious social media reasons. 🌇 𝓓𝓸 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝔂’𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼?
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 09/06/2025
Creating The New Orleans East Sunshine Weekly is something God told me to do, a Jeremiah 29:11 thing. Aaaallll the years of depression and struggle, aaaallll the times being second runner-up in interview processes, they all brought me HERE! 🧡🗞️☀️ READ HERE: www.meganbradenperry.com/the-new-orle...
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 04/06/2025
EXCITING SHAREWORTHY NEWS! I'm starting a nonprofit print weekly newspaper and website, The New Orleans East Sunshine Weekly, "uplifting and enlightening New Orleans East through good news." ☀️🗞️ 🧡 1/5
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 23/05/2025
Excited about some new stuff, for once! And I cannot WAIT to share with y’all. Seriously I was giving Eeyore frfr, every day I just woke up sad about everything.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 20/05/2025
God is good! I’m excited about this new idea I have, something I shoulda BEEN done. It’s ancestral! Now, to figure out how to create a non-profit newsroom. So THAT’S why God had me apply for The Daily Memphian job. To learn about the inner workings.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 30/04/2025
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! 🎂🥳How am I 40?! That’s insane. Thank you for all the love and support through the years, especially today! And I’m ABSOLUTELY sharing my pàymènt apps with you this year. You can also visit meganbradenperry.com/payment 💰
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/04/2025
Had a really great job interview today! I love how God puts me where I need to be. I should mention, the job isn’t in New Orleans. I’ve tried to work in my native and ancestral land, truly I have. But I keep getting turned down. I need to just let go and let God.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 01/04/2025
Speaking of raising money, I looked at my spreadsheet and I was still down $1,400 or so. That’s rent. Jesus. Learn more about my spreadsheet here: www.meganbradenperry.com/open-letter-... Tip$ and donation$ here: meganbradenperry.com/payment
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 09/07/2023
Check out my 2009 journal entry about “The Best Date EVER OMG” 🤣 I was days away from 24.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 08/07/2023
Looka my furry colleague, Buddy Jo the Cat. 🐈 #catsofbluesky
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 04/07/2023
I’m on Spill, fellow Black people! It’s Black Twitter, basically. Holla at ya girl! ✊🏾💜🪮 #spillionaire
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 02/07/2023
Some Essence Fest fun! 💜
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/06/2023
FINALLY DONE MY GOD IN HEAVEN. Praying it’s not too late. That 888 excited me. Lots of little signs that I’m doing OK. Jesus. I gotta start doing coke or something like the other journalists. But I get paid Net 30, so I can’t afford it.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/06/2023
Finally got over the hump THANK YOU GOD.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 20/06/2023
Fell in love with Drybar today! 💛🖤
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/06/2023
Tales of the Cocktail media preview tonight! Blessed!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 04/06/2023
Thank you! It was the Dope Girl Magic: Moet, Midori and an Herbsaint rinse
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 04/06/2023
I was outside Thursday!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 31/05/2023
Made yummy dinner tonight!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 22/05/2023
Very fun whiskey event! www.instagram.com/p/CsgvD1DuXC8/?ig…
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 18/05/2023
OH SHIT ya girl got an invite code!
Screenshot of Home Screen on Bluesky
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 16/05/2023
Chocolate cupcake at Cupcake Fairies before school pickup. 🤫 #blackowned
Chocolate cupcake and bottle of water
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 15/05/2023
I love my best friend!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 15/05/2023
Me and my bestie. Happy Mother’s Day to me, and to all the moms! 🌸
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 14/05/2023
Very excited about my salad! Watermelon, roasted corn, avocado, quick pickled red onions, tequila shrimp, lime, Kiler Ridge Nocellara DelBelice olive oil from Paso Robles, cotija cheese, Tajin and Himalayan sea salt!
Watermelon, roasted corn, avocado, quick pickled red onions, tequila shrimp, lime, Kiler Ridge Nocellara DelBelice olive oil from Paso Robles, cotija cheese, Tajin and Himalayan sea salt!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 12/05/2023
Last night at the New Orleans Pelicans practice facility was awesome! ❤️💙
Curly haired Black girl with glasses in a floral dress, holding a basketball on a basketball court.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 11/05/2023
Oh! Listen. New Orleans has a terrible flea problem. I live near the race track and it’s even worse. That said, got my cat (a fully inside cat!) a Seresto collar from Temu and WOW. Her coat is back soft, no fleas, no scratching til bloody. Helps eliminate fleas in the house too. Highly recommend.
Black and white cat in flea collar
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 11/05/2023
Swamp tings 🐊
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 11/05/2023
This energy. I know that’s right, Ms. @dionnewarwick.bsky.social!
Dionne Warwick says she’s not writing a bio.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 11/05/2023
Happy birthday to my best friend Jenny, who’s not on here! Yes, I put candles in her crawfish. 🤣
Birthday girl with curly hair and glasses, blowing out birthday candles in a tray of crawfish.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 10/05/2023
Franklin’s been begging to do the Mentos & Coca~Cola experiment, so I finally let him.😅
Kid in Mario shirt, outside smiling at Mentos & Coke volcano.
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 08/05/2023
Grapes are coming! 🍇
Baby grapevine
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/05/2023
A Jazz Fest miracle! Had looked all over for CeeCee’s snowballs so I could get a nectar soda float, finally got one with 15 minutes to spare.
Brown girl in glasses with cap at festival, holding a pink float
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/05/2023
Done coloring! 🖍️
Open your wings and fly coloring sheet, colored in
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/05/2023
But first, mango 🥭
Crayons and Mango
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/05/2023
Finna color! 🖍️
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 07/05/2023
Took what I thought was a well-timed Jazz Fest edible. It was not. Giggle fit at Thai’d Up. Party near my house confused me on my walk home. Thought I was way Uptown or in Mid-City.
Girl pink braids Black girl cosmic backdrop
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 06/05/2023
Did my hairs for Jazz Fest! 🩷
Brown girl with glasses, floral dress, black living single cap and pink milkmaid braids Brown girl with glasses, floral dress, black living single cap and pink milkmaid braids and black lace galoshes at Jazz Fest
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 06/05/2023
Mood AF! Happy Jazz Fest!
Alligator wearing a Jazz Fest cap, crawfish button down, holding a dressed shrimp po’boy
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 06/05/2023
I’m not alone in wondering about the Kool-Aid man’s dick, either.
Google search about the Kool-Aid man’s dick. Some say, it’s a Kool-Aid Burst! If it’s uncut, is it a Jammer instead? So many questions!
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Megan Braden-Perry🌸 @meganbradenperry.com · 06/05/2023
Lots of talk about ALF’s dick, and as a person who loves to joke about ALF eating cat, I’m here for it! However. Have we discussed the Kool-Aid man’s dick? OH YEAH or naw? Years ago, when the Kool-Aid man wore pants in a commercial, someone blogged about his dick. Because otherwise, why pants?!
Kool-Aid man in a Hawaiian shirt with pants, to presumably cover his dick. Oh yeah!
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