(ThySistas.com) Sheryl Lee Ralph has spent a lifetime being looked at. This week she decided to talk back about the cost of it. News broke on September 14. A new memoir, “You Better Love What You See,” lands April 6, 2027. That title did not come from nowhere. Ralph pulled ...
(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 ...
(ThySistas.com) I was raised to believe a woman who wanted respect had better learn to raise her voice. Come in loud. Plant your feet, put your hands on your hips, and dare anybody to test you. That was the lesson passed around a lot of our kitchens, and given the ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a certain freedom that arrives with age, and a good portion of it comes from finally understanding that you do not owe the world a narration of your days. Kerry Washington figured this out a long time ago, and without lecturing anybody, she has been showing the ...
(ThySistas.com) Every few months the machine cranks up again. A fresh headline, a think piece, a panel of talking heads shaking their heads about the former actress from California who married into a palace and then had the nerve to walk away from life as a working royal. Meghan has ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere in Sterling Heights tonight, under a Michigan sky already tilting toward fall, Erykah Badu stands on a stage earned twice over. The Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre marks stop number two on a run titled simply LIVE, and De La Soul is right there on the bill, the way old ...
(ThySistas.com) Public reaction to a celebrated woman’s private choices tends to arrive in two waves. Applause comes first. Then the second guessing, often dressed up as concern. Ciara, now 40 and expecting again, has become the latest study in that pattern. You would think a pregnancy inside a solid marriage ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere between the record books and the fake quotes strangers keep putting in her mouth, Angel Reese became a mirror. Half of what people say about her is really about them. The Baltimore area native just keeps hooping. Here is what I keep noticing. This country has never known ...
(ThySistas.com) Somewhere along the way we got sold a lie. It goes like this. A woman only matters while she is running herself ragged, always on, always in view. Let her slow down for a season and folks will swear she quit. Given up. Lost the fire. Eve has spent ...