(ThySistas.com) Mentorship gets framed a certain style in our heads, and most of us swallow the picture without a blink. An older woman pulls a younger one aside. They grab coffee. Out come the things nobody bothered to tell her when she was coming up. That picture is warm and ...
(ThySistas.com) Watch how folks talk about a Black woman who has her act together. The word strong gets thrown at her the way you might describe a load bearing wall. She is the one who brings the casserole when somebody dies and stays late folding programs for the repast. I ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over you when you look at what you actually have in hand and hold it up against the size of what you want to build. Cathy Hughes understood that feeling long before most of us ever heard her name. Back ...
(ThySistas.com) Most of us got sold a lie so early we took it for plain fact. The story goes that youth is the best a woman ever gets, and that once the face softens and the body fills out, the good part of her is basically finished. I believed a ...
(ThySistas.com) Angela Bassett got paid a compliment recently, the kind that always arrives wrapped in good intentions. You look incredible for your age. People mean it kind. Flattery, warm, handed over with a smile. But it snags on something in me every time, because way down under that nice sentence ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a version of me that lives inside certain records, and she is not sad. Took me years to catch on. For most of my grown life I figured heartbreak was the deepest place a song could take you. The playlist that counted, I believed, was the one ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a specific hush that falls over music criticism once an artist becomes too important to fail, and Beyoncé crossed into that territory years ago. The proof arrived on the Fourth of July, when she released a track called “Morning Dew (Donk)” as a surprise offering to the ...
(ThySistas.com) By the time Cardi B closed out the opening night of ESSENCE Fest this year, the hour was late and the Superdome still held a crowd. That tells you plenty. Folks stayed. They wanted her there. I have been coming to this festival, on and off, since my thirties, ...
(ThySistas.com) Learning about other cultures is exhilarating, especially when you see things that though they are different they remind you of parts of your own culture. A few of my sisters and I have been loving different parts of Asian culture. We have found that Korean and Japanese are the ...
(ThySistas.com) Gaming is one of my top five relaxation hobbies. When I have had a hard taxing day, or week, I quickly pick up the controller to let off a bit of steam. These games can range from adventures to fighting depending on my mood. Today when I’m done writing ...