Cellphone (chef)

Cellphone
Cellphone
Nationality	American
Occupation	Chef

Last updated September 25, 2024

Cellphone, also known as Ginger Espice and Sofi Peligras,^[1] is an American vegan chef and transgender-rights activist.

Career

In 2009, Cellphone and a partner started Hella Vegan Eats, a food truck in Oakland, California's Uptown Arts District.^[2]^[1] In 2019, Cellphone started a vegan popup restaurant called Gay4U in West Oakland; the Latinx restaurant eventually became permanent.^[2]^[1]^[3]

Cellphone created a service initiative at the restaurant, "Trans POC Always Eat Free", to address and bring attention to the disparities in food security among transgender people who are also persons of color; both groups experience higher levels of food insecurity than the population in general, and those who are members of both groups are at even higher risk.^[2]^[1]^[4] The initiative was inspired by the Black Panthers' free breakfast initiative and by the activism of trans women of color Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.^[2]

In 2022, Cellphone took the restaurant on a national popup tour, and the Trans POC Always Eat Free initiative spread to other restaurants in the United States.^[2]^[4]^[5] Later that year, Bon Appetit named Cellphone one of their Heads of the Table.^[5]

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References

1 2 3 4 "Gay4U's Closing Is Not a Goodbye: The Trans-Centric Vegan Cafe Hits the Road". KQED-FM . 25 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
1 2 3 4 5 Hurtado, Ludwig (2022-06-22). "'Trans POC Always Eat Free' Is More Than a Good Deed—It's a Movement". Bon Appétit . Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
↑ McElroy, Isle (2022-06-22). "How 4 Trans Chefs Are Reshaping Restaurant Culture". Bon Appétit . Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
1 2 Kirby, Hannah. "At Milwaukee's Moon Cherry Sweets, transgender people of color always eat free. Here's why". Journal Sentinel . Archived from the original on 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
1 2 "This Year's Heads of the Table Awards Celebrate Five Change-Makers". Bon Appétit . 2022-09-20. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

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[:1-1] 1 2 3 4 "Gay4U's Closing Is Not a Goodbye: The Trans-Centric Vegan Cafe Hits the Road". KQED-FM . 25 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

[:0-2] 1 2 3 4 5 Hurtado, Ludwig (2022-06-22). "'Trans POC Always Eat Free' Is More Than a Good Deed—It's a Movement". Bon Appétit . Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

[3] McElroy, Isle (2022-06-22). "How 4 Trans Chefs Are Reshaping Restaurant Culture". Bon Appétit . Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

[:2-4] 1 2 Kirby, Hannah. "At Milwaukee's Moon Cherry Sweets, transgender people of color always eat free. Here's why". Journal Sentinel . Archived from the original on 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

[:3-5] 1 2 "This Year's Heads of the Table Awards Celebrate Five Change-Makers". Bon Appétit . 2022-09-20. Archived from the original on 2023-02-04. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

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