(ThySistas.com) A couple of weeks back, while the rest of us sorted fall budgets and argued over whose turn it was to host Sunday dinner, Cynthia Erivo sat front row in Paris and made the whole circus pause. Dior one afternoon. Chloé the next. Valentino after that. Somebody over at ...
(ThySistas.com) Walk into an arena where Stephanie Mills is performing, and you will feel something the record business never figured out how to bottle. A woman closing in on seventy strides to the microphone, lets the opening notes of “Home” settle over the crowd, and suddenly nobody in the building ...
(ThySistas.com) Plenty of us walk around with a shame we never say out loud. You quit school before the diploma. Money ran short, a baby showed up ahead of schedule, nobody was ready, pick your reason. Point is it calcified into a thing you repeated about yourself so long that ...
(ThySistas.com) Thirty four years together as husband and wife. Let that sink in. Most couples I came up watching did not make it past the first baby, let alone three decades and change. So when a marriage clocks that much mileage and the people in it still like each other, ...
(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) 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) 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) 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 ...