(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) 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) 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, ...
(ThySistas.com) Something unfolded in Arlington last weekend that plenty of us are still turning over in our minds. Rep. Jasmine Crockett walked onto the stage at AT&T Stadium during the R&B tour stop, stood beside Chris Brown, Texas state Rep. Venton Jones and producer RoccStar, and announced a Congressional Record ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the punchlines and that golden statue, we stopped keeping count of how many firsts belonged to Caryn Elaine Johnson. The world simply knows her as Whoopi. A single name that carries weight, the kind earned across four decades of refusing to get small. Lately folks love to ...
(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 ...