{"id":39691,"date":"2015-01-25T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39691"},"modified":"2015-01-25T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:23:14","slug":"tracee-ellis-ross-that-hurt-like-the-bejesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39691","title":{"rendered":"Tracee Ellis Ross: \u2018That Hurt Like the Bejesus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/25\/magazine\/tracee-ellis-ross-that-hurt-like-the-bejesus.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Tracee Ellis Ross: \u2018That Hurt Like the Bejesus\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/25\/magazine\/tracee-ellis-ross-that-hurt-like-the-bejesus.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/01\/25\/magazine\/25talk\/25talk-master495-v3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/traceeellisross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tracee Ellis Ross<\/strong><\/a> Credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pejbehdarvand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pej Behdarvand<\/a> for <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>The actress talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennydeluxe\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Wortham<\/a> about defining her own sense of beauty and humor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows?<\/strong> I didn\u2019t actually go to the Golden Globes, but I do love awards-show season. It means lots of pretty dresses \u2014 and it\u2019s even more fun when you are nominated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The show you\u2019re on, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black-ish\" target=\"_blank\">black-ish<\/a>,\u201d has gotten a fair amount of critical praise. Do you know if the show has been picked up for a second season?<\/strong> No. Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what\u2019s happening while it\u2019s happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars \u2014 whatever you want to call it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love how women have responded to you in particular, especially the way you wear your hair out in this gorgeous storm cloud. <\/strong>A storm cloud? Is that what you said?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I may have said that, yes.<\/strong> That\u2019s lovely. Women are asked to put forward, to a certain extent, a mask. And for black women, that has taken on greater significance, because the standard of beauty has not necessarily had the space for different definitions of beauty. I\u2019m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful. On \u201cblack-ish,\u201d there\u2019s a lot that has to be done working around my hair, in terms of scheduling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/25\/magazine\/tracee-ellis-ross-that-hurt-like-the-bejesus.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracee Ellis Ross: \u2018That Hurt Like the Bejesus\u2019 The New York Times 2015-01-22 Tracee Ellis Ross Credit Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times The actress talks with Jenna Wortham about defining her own sense of beauty and humor. It\u2019s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows? I didn\u2019t actually go to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20,25],"tags":[18362,16941,2640,2327,17908],"class_list":["post-39691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-black-ish","tag-jenna-wortham","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tracee-ellis-ross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}