Ask Code Switch: The racial politics of washing dishes?
Briefly

"When no one is 'technically' the 'dishwasher' at work...who's supposed to wash the dishes and why? This speaks to expectations of unpaid labor, especially in workplace dynamics."
"I took the job in part to get a foot in the door in the theater industry... It wasn’t really in my job description, but I did it anyway."
"I felt a bit slavish... to preserve my job, I sucked it up and emptied the dishwasher."
"Having identifiers in common, like race and gender, can create common ground, but it can also amplify our implicit biases."
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