| Abstract The researchers conducted a Lacanian discourse analysis of 21 interviews conducted in 2016 of food bank clients of a large city in a southern U.S. state. The study focused on accounts of food insecure individuals regarding their experiences of stigma, shame, and guilt towards receiving non‐profit food assistance and how those experiences—or lack thereof—might play a role in food bank utilization, given the problematic of why many food insecure households do not receive any type of… |