(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) 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 was Lizzo again, gliding through New York during fashion week this past Friday, wrapped in a Kim Shui number with a cutout that dared you to look and a slit that climbed clear up one thigh. The singer didn’t tiptoe onto anybody’s radar. She arrived. Cameras swarmed, 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) 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) Janet Jackson was still 19 in a Minneapolis studio when she cut a project that reset what independence could sound like. The world came to know it as Control, and 2026 has brought both a fortieth anniversary celebration and a fresh run of public appearances. Across June she played ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a tale we tell about ourselves so often that most of us forget somebody actually sat down and wrote it. The strong Black woman. She holds up the household, the church, the paycheck, and the private grief of everybody circling around her, never once appearing to crack. ...
(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 ...