(ThySistas.com) Palatable is the word nobody says to your face. It hides inside softer ones. Difficult. Aggressive. A little much. Not quite a team player. The message underneath holds steady no matter which mask it wears, and it always comes down to the same thing. You would rise faster if ...
(ThySistas.com) Mentorship gets framed a certain style in our heads, and most of us swallow the picture without a blink. An older woman pulls a younger one aside. They grab coffee. Out come the things nobody bothered to tell her when she was coming up. That picture is warm and ...
(ThySistas.com) Mary J. Blige has spent her whole career putting private pain on record. On the August 19 episode of Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson’s podcast, she added a personal chapter to the pile and told the hosts why she chose not to have kids. The answer had nothing to ...
(ThySistas.com) Every so often the news carries something that rearranges what you thought was possible. Word that Kwanza Jones and her husband, José E. Feliciano, had completed their purchase of controlling ownership in the San Diego Padres did exactly that for me. Their ownership group acquired control of the club ...
(ThySistas.com) Fame buys a person visibility, not ownership of her body. Somewhere along the way, folks confused a familiar face with public property, and now they act as though a celebrated athlete owes them a full accounting of whatever quietly ails her. On June 6, Simone Biles shared that she ...
(ThySistas.com) Chaka Khan recently sat with a British newspaper and said out loud something plenty of grown women confess only to their closest friends. Talking about what she wants from life at 73, the Queen of Funk waved the subject of romance off. “I’m partnered out,” she told the Observer, ...
(ThySistas.com) Watch how folks talk about a Black woman who has her act together. The word strong gets thrown at her the way you might describe a load bearing wall. She is the one who brings the casserole when somebody dies and stays late folding programs for the repast. I ...
(ThySistas.com) There was an old head in my neighborhood, a Sista who had seen plenty and said whatever she pleased. Told me once that certain women walk into a spot and the spot just bends their way. Said it like a warning, not a compliment. You take up space without ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere in a conference room this offseason, a woman sat across from executives who run a billion dollar league and walked out having helped negotiate nearly $377 million in new contract value for her clients. Her name is Nicole Lynn. If you follow football, you already know her. If ...
(ThySistas.com) Most of us got sold a lie so early we took it for plain fact. The story goes that youth is the best a woman ever gets, and that once the face softens and the body fills out, the good part of her is basically finished. I believed a ...