instead we were met with meetings about meetings and ~grand goals~ of fellowship training programs for POCs. that was over a year ago, nothing has changed.
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yes, I left BA for multiple reasons, but one of the main reasons was that white leadership refused to make changes that my BIPOC coworkers and I constantly pushed for.
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as a person that shot the hot 10 restaurants for multiple years, what made me want to leave was when I saw that year after year, I was only shooting asian and white chefs.
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as an asian american, it is NOT enough to shoot asian restaurants and call it a day. asians are no longer marginalized in the restaurant/food industry, as much as BA would like to think that.
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when i asked "why have we shot food all around the world, but haven't touched the entire continent of Africa?", their response: "oh you know, the recipes get tricky, and readers probably wouldn't want to make the food".
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oh, but you'll preach the wonders of 3-day long recipes and 60 hour WP stews.
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i just got so tired. so tired of shooting the same reformation/healthyish white girl bullshit lifestyle that i knew nothing about, while rarely getting the opportunity to feature restaurants/communities that actually deserved the spotlight.
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why the FUCK are we still shooting and writing about chefs that look like a chubby father john misty that does "new american" aka bastardized mapo tofu and ashwaganda soda.
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what was demoralizing was when i'd be pushing so hard to change the publication from within, taking the wins that i could, only to see twitter and IG pop off about how white and nonprogressive BA was.
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and as much as that hurt to read, they weren't wrong. people weren't aware of my efforts or my fellow BIPOC coworker's efforts because we weren't being listened to by management.
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hell, people weren't even aware that the person creating most of the photographs at BA wasn't a white person. to a lot of the outside world, i didn't exist.
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i've been quiet. i've been quiet about this for so long, because i always thought that i could actually change the organization from within. but i was wrong, and quite frankly i am so glad that the internet is going after BA and holding them accountable.
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this is the only way that change can happen. call out the leadership of your favorite publications if you see something wrong. if they silence you, do NOT back down. there is strength in social media, strength in reader responses.
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this is a larger issue than that picture (which is irrefutably terrible and sad), this is a systemic problem that needs to be addressed now.
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just a reminder that this isn't solely a BA problem. this is a conde nast problem. blame roger moore, blame anna wintour, blame all of the people in conde corporate that you've never heard of. they are responsible for creating this culture.
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