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Alison Roman is lending her voice in support of Bon Appétit BIPOC staffers, weeks after making controversial comments about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo. The 34-year-old food columnist, who used to work for Bon Appétit, spoke up against the company’s biases and defended her former colleagues after Adam Rapoport, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, resigned over a …
Alison Roman is lending her voice in support of Bon Appétit BIPOC staffers, weeks after making controversial comments about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo.
The 34-year-old food columnist, who used to work for Bon Appétit, spoke up against the company’s biases and defended her former colleagues after Adam Rapoport, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, resigned over a brownface photo.
“I stand in solidarity with my former BIPOC coworkers and food media colleagues at Bon Appetit,” Roman wrote on her Instagram story on Thursday. “The wage disparity at BA and across all of Condé Nast is real. The toxic racism, sexism, elitism and classism are also VERY REAL.”
The “Nothing Fancy” author explained that while she has benefited from the system as a white woman, she also “left for a reason.”
“The employees past and present who have been most affected by the last few years are doing the incredibly hard, brave work by speaking out and I stand with them,” she said. “They work hard as hell and deserve so much better.”
Roman was a senior food editor at Bon Appétit before leaving to work at Buzzfeed in 2015. She then went on to become a food columnist for the New York Times but is on temporary leave following remarks she made about Teigen, 34, and Kondo, 35, in May.
Roman was slammed for making insensitive comments about the career trajectory of both women, who are Asian.
She has since apologized and acknowledged her “white privilege,” but her column was put on hold. A spokesperson for the Times told Page Six, “It was always the plan for Alison’s leave to be temporary. Her column will return.”
Roman was lambasted again earlier this week after being accused of dressing in a “chola” Halloween costume, but the food writer said the getup was meant to be an Amy Winehouse costume.
“This is an incredibly embarrassing picture that was taken in 2008,” Roman responded on Twitter. “I was 23 and living in SF, this was my ‘SF inspired Amy Winehouse’ costume for Halloween – it reads as culturally insensitive, and I was an idiot child who knew nothing about the world/how this would be perceived and I’m sorry.”
