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        <title><![CDATA[Alison Roman accused of wearing offensive ‘Chola’ Halloween costume]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cookbook author Alison Roman is in hot water — again.</p><p>The Brooklyn food writer, 34, was accused of wearing an offensive Halloween costume in 2008, weeks after she was scorned for <strong>&#8220;tone-deaf remarks&#8221;</strong> about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo in an interview.</p><p>Writer Yashar Ali <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1270139761018073089?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted out photos</a> that a source sent him from Roman&#8217;s old Myspace page. In the post, Ali accuses Roman of being dressed as a &#8220;Chola,&#8221; a specific style in the Mexican-American community.</p><p>&#8220;This is an incredibly embarrassing picture that was taken in 2008,&#8221; Roman <a href="https://twitter.com/alisoneroman/status/1270099719612698630?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">responded on Twitter</a>. &#8220;I was 23 and living in SF, this was my &#8216;SF inspired Amy Winehouse&#8217; 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&#8217;m sorry.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Amy didn&#8217;t have a tattoo in old English on her chest like that. She also didn&#8217;t wear hoops like that,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1270139770920828930?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">responded Ali,</a> 40, of the Winehouse claim.</p><div class="embed-wrapper twitter"><div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2. That’s why I was willing to tweet it. Most of the time I don’t believe such photos are newsworthy. Recent issues she’s had combined w/ this made it different</p><p>Re Amy Winehouse: Amy didn’t have a tattoo in old English on her chest like that. She also didn’t wear hoops like that</p><p>&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1270139770920828930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p>Social-media watchdogs were quick to accuse Ali of digging up dirt to defend Teigen.</p><p>&#8220;We all know why you are calling out Alison,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/SFsportschick/status/1270159289676492800" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">one tweeter posted</a>. &#8220;Because you are good friends with someone that she recently had an infamous &#8216;Twitter feud&#8217; with, which they already squashed. You are beyond petty and unprofessional for this.&#8221;</p><p>Another tweeter chimed in, &#8220;You are not the appropriation police and it&#8217;s not fair to drag her during times of such intense feelings,&#8221; alongside a photo of Teigen, 34, <a href="https://twitter.com/AmberL_Evans/status/1270150428764917761?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dressed in a Native American costume</a> with husband John Legend, 41.</p><div class="embed-wrapper twitter"><div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">But your friends are cool? <strong>pic.twitter.com/ELlSRvAW7a</strong></p><p>&mdash; PrettyRiot-y (@AmberL_Evans) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmberL_Evans/status/1270150428764917761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p>Another Twitter user pointed out that Winehouse did, in fact, wear hoops, and often wore an outfit similar to what Roman dressed in for Halloween.</p><div class="embed-wrapper twitter"><div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No hoops a all, amirite? <strong>pic.twitter.com/cjMoaJixVh</strong></p><p>&mdash; Tryx™️🌪 (@Rav1ngUnicorn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rav1ngUnicorn/status/1270151503672680453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p>Meanwhile, Roman remained committed to the Winehouse story. &#8220;I&#8217;d be surprised if I even looked up a picture of Amy to put this together. I am historically lazy and bad at costumes. I&#8217;m sure it went something like &#8216;someone give me fake tattoos and some eyeliner, this seems fine!&#8217;&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/alisoneroman/status/1270108557757816835?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explained</a>. &#8220;It was/I was VERY DUMB.&#8221;</p><figure id="attachment_5281238"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/alison-roman-costume.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/alison-roman-costume.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/alison-roman-costume.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Alison Roman in costume (left) and Amy Winehouse.</span><span class="credit">MySpace; AFP</span></figcaption></figure><p>Last month, Roman&#8217;s popular New York Times column was <strong>put on a temporary hold</strong> after she lashed out at Teigen and Kondo, implying they were sellouts.</p><p>&#8220;What Chrissy Teigen has done is so crazy to me. She had a successful cookbook. And then it was like: Boom, line at Target. Boom, now she has an&nbsp;<strong>Instagram page</strong> that has over a million followers where it&#8217;s just, like, people running a content farm for her. That horrifies me and it&#8217;s not something that I ever want to do. I don&#8217;t aspire to that,&#8221; Roman told <strong>the New Consumer</strong>.</p><figure id="attachment_5281243"  class="wp-caption alignleft"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/alison-roman-costume-19.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/alison-roman-costume-19.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/alison-roman-costume-19.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Alison Roman</span><span class="credit">Getty Images for Bloomberg</span></figcaption></figure><p>&#8220;The idea that when Marie Kondo decided to capitalize on her fame and make stuff that you can buy, that is completely antithetical to everything she&#8217;s ever taught you,&#8221; she said of the organizing guru.</p><p>After the internet exploded in anger, Roman <strong>made a public apology for her actions</strong>, which was accepted by Teigen.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a white woman who has and will continue to benefit from white privilege and I recognize that makes what I said even more inexcusable and hurtful,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The fact that it didn&#8217;t occur to me that I had singled out two Asian women is one hundred percent a function of my privilege (being blind to racial insensitivities is a discriminatory luxury).&#8221;</p><p>The &#8220;Nothing Fancy&#8221; author said <a href="https://twitter.com/alisoneroman/status/1270105711293476864?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">she has donated</a> $4,000 and helped raise $22,000 in the last 11 days for Black Lives Matter-related causes and Asian-American organizations.</p><p>At the same time the new allegations against Roman surfaced, her former employer Bon Appétit was melting down: Editor-in-chief <strong>Adam Rapoport resigned</strong> when photos of him in a brown-face Halloween costume were revealed. Assistant editor Sohla El-Waylly then alleged that she and other employees of color are not paid for their contributions to the food mag&#8217;s popular YouTube channel.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been pushed in front of video as a display of diversity,&#8221; El-Waylly wrote in an Instagram story. &#8220;In reality, currently only white editors are paid for their video appearances. None of the people of color have been compensated for their appearances.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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