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(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 ...
(ThySistas.com) Phaedra Parks has a law degree from the University of Georgia, a successful legal career, and the kind of professional credentials many women work a lifetime to achieve. Book smart to the bone, she earned the diploma, passed the bar, and established herself in Atlanta long before reality television ...
(ThySistas.com) Women get told a certain story, and most of us hear it early. Romance is for the young. Past a certain age you take what you can get, if anything comes at all. Halle Berry turned 60 this past August, celebrating a milestone birthday with a renewed appreciation for ...
(ThySistas.com) Every so often a photo caption tells on the culture. This month, as cameras lined up outside a gleaming new structure in Los Angeles, I found myself thinking about the familiar habit of introducing an accomplished woman through her famous husband. Star Wars creator and his spouse. Filmmaker and ...
(ThySistas.com) Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote something this past weekend that a lot of us are still chewing on. The woman behind the 1619 Project used a fresh New York Times Magazine essay to admit her own daughter thinks the family got education wrong. Not a stranger’s kid. The girl is sixteen ...
(ThySistas.com) Yolanda Adams has been singing to us for almost forty years, and if home was a house where the gospel station stayed on Sunday mornings, that voice is stitched somewhere into your memory. Slowing down has never been the plan. Her 2024 album, Sunny Days, marked a return to ...
(ThySistas.com) The paper she earned opened law, public service, and a life she rewrote more than once. Ours can do the same. Ask most of us what a college degree is for, and the answer arrives on reflex. It secures a good position. Land the role, keep the role, retire ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular tired that Black women know without anybody having to spell it out. Not from working long hours. This is the tired of shrinking yourself down, of bending into somebody you were never meant to be, until you wake up one day and hardly know the ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of pressure that comes with sitting across from a man who holds real power and refusing to blink. Kristen Welker knew that pressure well. No screaming. No slamming the table, no matching his volume. What the anchor did instead was quieter and, honestly, far ...
(ThySistas.com) There’s a particular ache that only arrives once the applause fades. You sell out arenas, your face rides magazine covers, strangers holler your lyrics back at you, then you sit at a kitchen table with a calculator and realize you can barely cover the light bill. That is the ...
(ThySistas.com) Few performers arrive on screen already understood, but she is one of them. A single expression carries what other actors need a page of dialogue to establish. Across sitcoms and dramas and animated features alike, audiences learned to read her instantly as the one in charge of everybody’s business, ...
