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Tennille Nicole Allen

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West Side Chicagoan by birth. Sociology professor by training. Black feminist by Audre, bell, and Patricia. I study Black people doing Black things in Black places.

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My doc gave me an rx for hydroxyzine for my insomnia and anxiety--it's non-habit forming and works like a dream (pun-intended--it can occasionally produce vivid though fairly pleasant dreams) in about 15 minutes.

11.03.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lu and Lana were the best!

11.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope things improve soon!

10.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I teach a class inside a prison. My students have amazingly sophisticated analyses on forms of violence & how these impacted their incarceration. Many also say that a. current parents need to return to spanking their kids & b. they were spanked and they turned out fine. That's not seen as violence.

08.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Same! I'm traveling for Spring Break at the end of next week and am trying to make myself wait until then but it's so hard.

05.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The number of times I have been dealing with something I have not yet identified, walked into a bookstore, and seen the perfect ThΓ­ch NhαΊ₯t HαΊ‘nh book for the moment on display.

02.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Girl...

The Lake Street location is staying open, afaik. There is a Barnes and Noble opening where Borders used to be. It's supposed to open summer.

26.02.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was talking about this yesterday. There is no way OP should have two Pete's, two Jewels, a couple of independent grocery stores, specialty food stores, and a Trader Joe's. It's enraging, especially with the paucity of grocery stores next door in Austin. I discuss this in all my classes.

26.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me glad my husband dropped out of their interview process when he did.

25.02.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a white coat is standing in front of a computer monitor . Alt: a scene from the tv show The Good Doctor, featuring a white male doctor in a white coat is standing in front of a Black woman doctor, also i a white coat. There is a computer monitor with scientific images flashing before his eyes.

The Good Doctor

23.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At the beginning of my career, I'd tell students who referred to me as Mrs. Allen that that was my grandmother and she died in 2003.

23.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Study: Chronic stress caused by racial discrimination is accelerating biological aging in Black women | News | University of Michigan School of Public Health | Epigenetics | Research | Health Disparit... African American women who experience higher levels of perceived racial discrimination in everyday life have accelerated levels of biological aging, according to a recent study led by University of Mi...

Indeed there is. There is a growing body of research that shows that exposure to interpersonal and systemic racism has a deleterious effect on various health outcomes for Black people. One example: sph.umich.edu/news/2024pos...

23.02.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

anyways…Happy Black History Month to all my people πŸ–€πŸ€Ž

I love US ✊🏾

23.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My now 16 year old used to love himself a bran muffin when he was a little guy. It surprised every server every time--they'd look at me to confirm his choice.

23.02.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Which makes him like the Black people in that room how?

23.02.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol at this since peaches are part of the rose family.

23.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I almost made my youngest late for a baseball game a couple blocks away the first time I saw this house. We were on our way to the field and I had to circle the car back to gawk at this, this, this....

20.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Noting the May 7th date! I have appreciated your book deeply and it's already informing the work my students and I are doing in suburban Chicago (Will County, Illinois).

17.02.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't even type "the". It always autocorrects to "Theresa". I'd finally figured out how to fix this and then months later, it randomly unfixed itself so I just gave up.

16.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She sounds and looks so good!

15.02.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lake Zurich.

13.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There were also similar complaints about Beyonce's performance and its use of Black Panther Part iconography.

09.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Super Bowl Halftime Show Complaints Focused on Lack of DEI for White People The FCC received 125 complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s concert, according to public records obtained by WIRED, with many focusing on the lack of white performers.

I remembered this from last year: www.wired.com/story/super-...

09.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

High key, imo. Pretty to look at but I couldn't abide the messaging.

07.02.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seeing it made me close the app.

05.02.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is all so awful. For some reason the thing that sticks in my head--in addition to him discussing her spending the night at his home--is him calling her an "authoress".

05.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the day we boiled water and threw it in the air and it came down snow. We then ran back in the house and had hot apple cider and hot toddies for the rest of the evening.

31.01.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Learned this in class last week.

I'd (pretended) I'd gotten over students--IN ILLINOIS, NO LESS--not knowing who Emmett Till was and then I saw they didn't know Trayvon Martin.

29.01.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder I need to pick my 11 year old Timbs up. I have been wearing the purple leather boots that I picked up from my cobbler when I dropped my Timbs off. A good cobbler is, well, a good thing.

28.01.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favorite & most recommended podcasts! I especially appreciated the episode on the Drs. Julian. I have long thought more should know about Anna Johnson Julian and given that she lived where I currently live and was the first Black woman to earn a Sociology PhD, this sociologist was RIVETED!

28.01.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0