(ThySistas.com) I was raised to believe a woman who wanted respect had better learn to raise her voice. Come in loud. Plant your feet, put your hands on your hips, and dare anybody to test you. That was the lesson passed around a lot of our kitchens, and given the ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a certain freedom that arrives with age, and a good portion of it comes from finally understanding that you do not owe the world a narration of your days. Kerry Washington figured this out a long time ago, and without lecturing anybody, she has been showing the ...
(ThySistas.com) Every few months the machine cranks up again. A fresh headline, a think piece, a panel of talking heads shaking their heads about the former actress from California who married into a palace and then had the nerve to walk away from life as a working royal. Meghan has ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere in Sterling Heights tonight, under a Michigan sky already tilting toward fall, Erykah Badu stands on a stage earned twice over. The Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre marks stop number two on a run titled simply LIVE, and De La Soul is right there on the bill, the way old ...
(ThySistas.com) Public reaction to a celebrated woman’s private choices tends to arrive in two waves. Applause comes first. Then the second guessing, often dressed up as concern. Ciara, now 40 and expecting again, has become the latest study in that pattern. You would think a pregnancy inside a solid marriage ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere along the way we got sold a lie. It goes like this. A woman only matters while she is running herself ragged, always on, always in view. Let her slow down for a season and folks will swear she quit. Given up. Lost the fire. Eve has spent ...
(ThySistas.com) My mother used to say a woman ought to have one good trade and stick with it. Learn it deep, do it right, and let folks know you by that single thing. Solid advice for 1975, maybe. It never quite fit the shape of what Jemele Hill would become. ...
(ThySistas.com) Word crossed my timeline the way most things do now, wrapped in outrage and laughter at once. A wooden crate. Empty. Nearly a thousand dollars. My first reaction was not anger. It was that long, slow exhale my grandmother used to give when she caught grown people doing something ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a specific kind of weariness that settles into the shoulders after three decades of being everybody’s answer. You have felt it. It shows up quiet, and it sinks low in your back around nine at night when you are at the stove and the phone keeps buzzing, ...
(ThySistas.com) Some folks keep score their whole lives. Not these two. Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King settled the question of rivalry a long time ago, back when neither name meant a thing to anybody outside their own households, and every year since has been a quiet demonstration of what they ...