(ThySistas.com) Palatable is the word nobody says to your face. It hides inside softer ones. Difficult. Aggressive. A little much. Not quite a team player. The message underneath holds steady no matter which mask it wears, and it always comes down to the same thing. You would rise faster if ...
(ThySistas.com) Nobody hands you a manual for the season that follows a public falling short. You get parades for the wins. Flowers show up at the door. A hashtag trends for an afternoon, and folks who barely spoke to you last year suddenly remember they believed all along. Then it ...
(ThySistas.com) There was an old head in my neighborhood, a Sista who had seen plenty and said whatever she pleased. Told me once that certain women walk into a spot and the spot just bends their way. Said it like a warning, not a compliment. You take up space without ...
(ThySistas.com) The numbers coming out of the labor market this past year tell a story a lot of us carried in our bodies long before any economist bothered to chart it. Here is what the data says out loud. We opened 2025 with a jobless figure sitting around 5.4 percent. ...
(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 ...