(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) A few tender photographs surfaced this autumn, and before the ink dried on the moment, half the internet had convened a town hall meeting about matters of the heart. That is roughly where many of us landed in early September, watching people dissect Letitia Wright as though she had ...
(ThySistas.com) Every family has that one auntie who starts asking about a ring the second you bring somebody around twice. Doesn’t matter how happy you are. Until a man gets down on one knee, the relationship reads to everybody else like a tryout. Church mothers start whispering. Your group chat ...
(ThySistas.com) Houston, way back. Two sisters came up in a house that ran on art before it ran on anything else, and their mother made sure of it. Vivian Ayers Allen wrote poetry good enough to earn a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and she poured verse and music into her children ...
(ThySistas.com) Some Thursday nights never leave you. I was a kid when the whole house would gather in front of the set at eight o’clock, and for thirty minutes we got to watch a family that looked like mine living a life that felt both regular and somehow bigger than ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of whiplash that comes from watching an artist you once knew cold turn into somebody you barely recognize. For a lot of us, that artist is Nicki Minaj. The woman born Onika Tanya Maraj, the one who soundtracked more cookouts and car rides than ...
(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) There is a particular kind of patience that gets mistaken for failure. You see it in the one who keeps showing up to the thing everybody swore would never pay off, while folks whisper that maybe, bless her heart, it just was not meant to be. Then one day ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a tired script pressed into the hands of Sistas the moment a pregnancy test turns positive. The story goes that your own name now belongs in a drawer somewhere, folded up next to the career you used to have, and that the highest praise a grown woman ...
(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 ...