(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 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 couple years the timeline catches the same fever. Some account digs up a fuzzy old clip of Denise Huxtable drifting across the Hillman lawn, and here come the comments. Bring her back. Run it one more time. Where is the reunion we got coming to us. The affection ...
(ThySistas.com) Picture the group chat on a Tuesday night. One sister drops a screenshot of a boarding pass, first class to Tulum, wheels up Friday, who’s rolling. A couple of the Sistas fire back heart eyes and start packing in their minds. Then another reads that same message, grins at ...
(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) 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) Every so often a photo caption tells on the culture. This month, as cameras lined up outside a gleaming new structure in Los Angeles, I found myself thinking about the familiar habit of introducing an accomplished woman through her famous husband. Star Wars creator and his spouse. Filmmaker and ...
(ThySistas.com) Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote something this past weekend that a lot of us are still chewing on. The woman behind the 1619 Project used a fresh New York Times Magazine essay to admit her own daughter thinks the family got education wrong. Not a stranger’s kid. The girl is sixteen ...