SRUTHI: It’s a story of how waves of people of color will show up, and one by one, run through the gauntlet that is Bon Appetit. So like even if she told me every day, like, hey, just a reminder you don't belong.I would have still taken the job. SUE: I would’ve done anything to just be there. It’ll start a decade ago, when the man in charge would build this whole place with a fundamental flaw, a flaw whose magnitude wouldn’t be obvious to anyone, least of all, the excited employees of color coming to work there. So I’m going to tell you that story in four parts. I have certainly recognized my own experiences in it. It feels like the view of an office that is strangely familiar.
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Since I saw that snapshot, I’ve spent months talking to all the people of color who worked there, like almost all of them, going back ten years ago, to the moment when the modern version of Bon Appetit was first launched.Īnd I feel like now I’ve seen a whole movie of everything that led up to that one snapshot.Īnd once you hear that whole story, that snapshot itself feels quite different. SRUTHI: It was an ugly snapshot of an ugly place. People on the internet started digging through old tweets from the staff, and found all kinds of stuff - sexist tweets, homophobic tweets, more disturbing photos.Ī Bon Appetit editor has apologized after a photo of confederate flag cake … The people of color who’d starred in Bon Appetit’s videos started coming forward and saying they were being paid less than their white colleagues. Like there was a Business Insider article about how the culture there was toxic. After that first offensive photo, more details started pouring out. SRUTHI: It was a story that we’ve grown used to hearing, the story of a bad workplace, told over the internet. YouTube: Bon Appétit magazine's editor in chief has resigned following the reemergence of a photo of him dressed in a caricature-ish Puerto Rican way. YouTube: And the first thing we're going to talk about today, easily one of the most requested stories today, and that is all this news surrounding Bon Appétit and its editor in chief, Adam Rapoport.
And that week, this photo circulated online, a photo of the man in charge of Bon Appetit in a very offensive Halloween costume. Everyone was protesting, angry about racial injustice. It was early June of 2020, days after the murder of George Floyd. Black, brown, Asian, Latino, and they’d all worked in New York at this one food magazine, Bon Appétit. And this story is about a specific group of those people. SRUTHI: This kind of negotiation with the past, it was happening inside the heads of a lot of people, all over the country. I found myself replaying moments from my career, moments that went back years, things that happened that hadn’t even qualified as stories in my brain at the time. If you had asked me MUSIC that same question though, AFTER June of last year, what does it mean to be an Indian woman in the workplace, I think my answer would have been a long pause. I’m sure you can tell that from my excellent American accent. I do work hard, I am pretty good at math. You know, I’ve definitely benefited from the ways that I fit into American stereotypes of Indian people. Like I preferred to focus on how it actually helped me. Because back then, I didn’t really want to think of my race as a disadvantage. If you’d asked like - for you personally, Sruthi, what does it mean to be an Indian woman in the workplace. I’m also a straight woman, I’m also a mom.Īnd if you’d asked me before last summer, so before June of 2020.
I studied math and so, I guess, I’m a woman of science. I was born in India in Hyderabad, and I lived there until I came to the United States for college. Like I’m telling people that I, as a brown woman, have experienced a racism that is as constant, and as oppressive as, say, a Black person, which of course I have not. But know that every time I say it, I kind of wince. You’re Asian.īut I say it all the time now, “person of color”, you’re gonna hear me saying it many, many times in today’s story. I was at this small gathering, and a friend of mine, who’s Asian, referred to both of us as “women of color.” And I said to her no, we’re not. SRUTHI: So the first time someone in my life used the phrase “person of color” to describe me-that was about six years ago. We’ve been working on it for months now, and we’re very glad to finally get to share it with you. This though is all the parts of that story that you didn’t hear. PJ: It’s about Bon Appétit, a food magazine that I’m sure some of you saw explode in scandal last summer. It’s a story told in over a few chapters, by our reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni, she will be taking over the show for a bit. And we have something different for you this week.
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