(ThySistas.com) Every now and then someone walks in and the whole room has to shift to make space. A girl out of Portsmouth, Virginia did that to rap. Ignored near about every rule the place tried to press into her hands, and kept on walking. Back before Missy, a female ...
(ThySistas.com) Every couple years the timeline catches the same fever. Some account digs up a fuzzy old clip of Denise Huxtable drifting across the Hillman lawn, and here come the comments. Bring her back. Run it one more time. Where is the reunion we got coming to us. The affection ...
(ThySistas.com) Somebody needs to say this plainly, so let me. A woman can be tall and loud and brilliant, the type who takes up the whole doorway and half the conversation, and the right love will still find her and stay. The culture keeps hinting otherwise. A’ja Wilson keeps proving ...
(ThySistas.com) We saw this coming long before the sports desks did. A young baller steps onto the hardwood with her chin high, nails done, edges laid, and somehow the whole country finds something to fuss over besides the actual ball. Sound familiar, Sistas? For plenty of us, it absolutely should. ...
(ThySistas.com) Picture the group chat on a Tuesday night. One sister drops a screenshot of a boarding pass, first class to Tulum, wheels up Friday, who’s rolling. A couple of the Sistas fire back heart eyes and start packing in their minds. Then another reads that same message, grins at ...
(ThySistas.com) Let me take you back to 2016. A music video dropped and the internet damn near short-circuited over one thing: a body glistening under gym lights, moving like water across a boxing ring. That was Kanye West’s “Fade” clip. For a long stretch afterward, plenty of folks filed Teyana ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a lesson the most accomplished women among us tend to learn early, and rarely gently. Competence and popularity are not the same currency, and the exchange rate between them has never once been fair. Excellence earns admiration right up until it begins to inconvenience the people grown ...
(ThySistas.com) Put a recent picture of Jasmine Guy online, and you can almost predict how the comment section will go. Half the crowd will cheer. The rest will start counting the lines around her eyes like accountants at tax time. Sixty-four, and somehow the internet still wants to open an ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a script handed to full-figured women almost from the cradle, and most of us can recite it in our sleep. Drop the pounds first. Fix the hair. Fold yourself into something smaller, quieter, easier to want. Then, if all that homework gets turned in on time, maybe ...
(ThySistas.com) There comes a season in a great artist’s life when the songs, as glorious as they are, stop being the whole story. You feel it long before anyone puts it into words. The voice that scored a generation becomes the smallest room in a much larger house. Alicia Keys ...