Tracee Ellis Ross | SmartLess
Tracy Ellis Ross discusses her unconventional upbringing as Barbra Streisand's daughter, revealing how she used fashion as armor against microaggressions and racism while navigating fame.summaryRoss realized later in life that her love for fashion and impeccable style served as a protective mechanism or 'armor' to navigate microaggressions and assert respectability in a world that often judged her based on her takeaway“Fashion was an armor for me... I would navigate myself and my external appearance in a way that gave somebody an impression that in my articulateness... you cannot belittle me.”quote














