Tracee Ellis Ross Refused To Do Gendered Chores On 'Black-ish'
black-ish. The award-winning actress questioned storylines that featured her character engaging in gendered housework on the Kenya Barris-led show. For six seasons, Ross has portrayed Rainbow Johnson, a doctor and mother of five who’s just as likely to be seen scrubbing into surgery as she is carrying a load of laundry. “What I did speak up about from the beginning was, ‘Why am I carrying laundry?’ ‘Why am I the person in the kitchen cooking right now, when this has nothing to do with the scene?’ Even sometimes when it does have something to do with the scene,” she said on the LA Times podcast Can’t Stop Watching. She created a term for the stereotypical script moments.