(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) Let me start with a confession before anyone comes for me. I watch. Every season, glass of something cold in hand, group chat lit up, my sister texting me theories at eleven at night about who is playing a game and who is genuinely soft for somebody. So this ...
(ThySistas.com) Sunday mornings get quiet in a certain way, especially when the coffee is good and the phone is already in your hand. Last week I was sitting there scrolling and a woman I went to college with popped up. She had on white linen, standing at the edge of ...
(ThySistas.com) By the time Cardi B closed out the opening night of ESSENCE Fest this year, the hour was late and the Superdome still held a crowd. That tells you plenty. Folks stayed. They wanted her there. I have been coming to this festival, on and off, since my thirties, ...
(ThySistas.com) All work and no play creates a monster, and an unhealthy body. There is always a project at work, something to do with our man, and let’s not even get started with kids…that a never ending job. There is always a bed to make, laundry to do, bathrooms to ...
(ThySistas.com) There are sisters, not all, that desire to be wives. They don’t want to spend their life in what they understand to be “alone”. For some that avoid the idea of marriage at all costs it can be rooted in the belief that a wife is a weak position. ...
(ThySistas.com) Perimenopause is one of those chapters in a Black woman’s life that we don’t talk about nearly enough. We talk around it, we joke about “the change,” we watch our aunties fan themselves in church or our mamas suddenly switch to cotton sheets in the middle of winter, but ...
(ThySistas.com) During the course of any kind of relationship it is very important to check stubborn pride at the door. One has to be willing to admit when actions and/or words have been hurtful, and offensive. When this happens by it’s important to admit the hurtful behavior, and work towards ...
(ThySistas.com) Anxiety disorder is real, and there are millions of people living with it. Some are managing medically, and there are many that have no diagnosis but have all the symptoms. It is important that we have understanding and compassion for our sisters struggling with anxiety. Some of them live every ...