(ThySistas.com) A quiet presumption runs through every election cycle, and it concerns me directly. It holds that a woman who looks like me has already made up her mind, that my ballot was spoken for before I woke, that the sole remaining question is whether I turn up to confirm ...
(ThySistas.com) Ask any room of Black women who they look up to, and her name comes up fast. Michelle Obama earned that. But a whole lot of us stopped admiring her a while back and started competing with her instead, mostly in our own heads, and losing every single time. ...
(ThySistas.com) I’ve always hated the saying, “Ignorance is bliss”. It goes against everything I have seen, been taught, and experienced. Ignorance has never kept a black person alive, not sheltered them from the evils of the world. As a matter of fact, ignorance can get us killed figuratively and literally. ...
(ThySistas.com) My grandmother always told me that what is only known by some will one day be known by all. Mardi Gras is frequented by thousands of people. Mardi Gras in New Orleans has always been complicated for me, and many Black natives from the city. I learned early that ...
(ThySistas.com) I am from New Orleans. I was born and raised here as were my parents, and elders going back over five generations. We grew up with music and food that was like religion to us, and the city moved to its own culture sound and drum. It was not ...
(ThySistas.com) The current state of the United States of America is embarrassing, angering, and frightening. The news is no longer relegated to television and newspapers. To be honest, via our cellphones we know Breaking News real time. Our news outlets are attached to social media so there is no need ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a theory that I heard being discussed on the porch as I was growing up. The elders would say, New Orleans is so different the sun rises in the West and sets in the East. They would continue saying, this is not a city that can be ...
(ThySistas.com) We no longer know what to expect when we turn on the News. We have no idea what madness we might hear when the broadcast begins. In like fashion many hesitate when they open their phone, because we never know what is about to be trending or breaking news. ...
(ThySistas.com) Our people are often made to believe that if we don’t fight every social issue, and civil rights matters, we are out of order. We are told that was is happening to another group will eventually happen to us. After the elections Black people decided they needed to step ...
(ThySistas.com) As a Black woman on a fixed income due to debilitating illnesses, voting during this past presidential election was vital. I sat back and watched the discourse on television and social media, and it was concerning. I know that Black people in this country are not the majority by ...