(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the church pew and the honky tonk, K. Michelle found the grown woman she had been quietly carrying for years. On October 16 she turned that woman loose on Jesus & Whiskey, her first country record, and the moment landed less as a career move than as ...
(ThySistas.com) Tabitha Brown spent a good chunk of her early career trying to be less. Quieter, less country, more of whatever a casting director considered acceptable that day. She knows the exhaustion that comes from spending so long managing how you land on people that your own body starts keeping ...
(ThySistas.com) Fifty-five looks good on Jada Pinkett Smith. Not the airbrushed good that glossy covers sell you, but the settled kind that only shows up once a woman quits auditioning for everybody else’s comfort. That birthday arrived back in September, and anybody who has watched her these past few years ...
(ThySistas.com) Nobody throws a parade for the sister who simply kept showing up. We save our confetti for the twenty-two-year-old who blew up overnight, the fresh face on each cover, the prodigy who made success look effortless. Meanwhile somebody’s auntie has been grinding since before that baby could crawl, and ...
(ThySistas.com) Ayesha Curry has spent years being described in relation to somebody else. Married to Stephen Curry, a four-time NBA champion and future Hall of Famer. Mama to four. The name behind cookbooks and cookware. Each label fits. Not a one of them tells you who she actually is. Come ...
(ThySistas.com) For more than two decades, Keyshia Cole has conducted her private life in full public view, every high and every heartbreak unfolding on a stage she never quite chose. We watched her fall in love, come undone, and rebuild more times than any soap opera would dare script. Right ...
(ThySistas.com) By now you have probably seen the clip. Coco Jones was posing on a New York sidewalk during Fashion Week, looking beautiful in her designer outfit, when a stranger decided her existence was an invitation to act ugly. The woman hurled insults like “ew” and “disgusting,” called her “Blackie,” and ...
(ThySistas.com) You know the laugh. Big, wide open, head thrown back, the kind that takes over a whole room before you even catch the joke. Tiffany Haddish has been handing that laugh out for close to ten years now, on talk show couches, award stages, and red carpets. While everybody ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the whistle notes and the Christmas radio takeover, folks quietly stopped crediting the part that actually built the empire. Everybody wants to marvel at how high she climbs. They will carry on for an hour about octaves and glass-shattering runs, then never once acknowledge that the lady ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular quiet that settles over a grown woman once she decides she has poured everything she had into something, and now it is done. Not broken. Finished, the way a long letter finally gets signed and sealed. Misty Copeland walked into that quiet last fall, and ...