{"id":12884,"date":"2021-02-05T01:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=185372"},"modified":"2021-02-06T01:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:06:05","slug":"sophia-roe-politics-around-food","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/sophia-roe-politics-around-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Roe Taught Me That Food Is Always Political"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophia Roe has an incredible brain – and thankfully, she’s kind enough to share it with us all. Over the past nine months, Roe has been one of the most instrumental figures when it comes to educating people, myself included, about white supremacy and anti-racism. However, unlike the rise of\u00a0 Instagram activists who share pretty, palatable tiles with easy to follow instructions, which – importantly – won\u2019t wreck one’s carefully curated Instagram aesthetic, Roe comes to the table with a unique and unashamedly bold perspective. Growing up food insecure and in and out of the foster care system, Roe went on to train as a chef in New York, using her lived experience and learnings about the food and wellness industry to carve out a space for herself, building a career on the basis that food is inherently political.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Roe has since amassed a following of 275,000 Instagram fans – a number which jumps significantly weekly – thanks to her informative videos, a series she dubs \u2018Pillow Talk<\/a>\u2019, which covers everything from code-switching to spiritual bypassing and redlining. In May, Gigi Hadid had Roe on her Instagram channel to discuss racial justice and a few months later, it was announced that Roe would be heading up her own VICE series, <\/span>Counter Space<\/span><\/i>. Unlike your run-of-the-mill cooking show, <\/span>Counter Space<\/span><\/i> looks at the world\u2019s most pressing political issues through the lens of food, including the way political dissent in Hong Kong is directly tied to street food culture and the situation in Mexico, where farmers are being left without work because it is now cheaper for Mexicans to import corn from America due to the mass production of crops. In every episode, Roe shows the immediate impact equitable food access can have on communities, and highlights exactly why it\u2019s impossible to separate food from politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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