Event Description:
Recent debates about increasing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) have played on long-standing U.S. traditions of stigmatizing people for receiving help from the government.

Drawing on five years of interviews and engagement around food work with 124 black, white and Latina mothers as part of Voices Into Action: The Families, Food, and Health Project, this talk examines the ways that women interpreted experiences of food insecurity and poverty through belief in a God who would make a way despite hardship. In particular, this talk will track changes in ways women talk about making a way over time, focusing on how this sense of resilience or hope shifted after the 2016 election. For some women, the sense of Gods presence as they attempted to make a way shifted from a posture of resilience to a position of resignation as they navigated intense worries and anxieties about the future.

Event URL:
https://philrel.chass.ncsu.edu/religious_studies/activities.php

Contact Information:
Name: Anna Bigelow
Phone: 919.515.6194
Email: anna_bigelow@ncsu.edu

Location Information:
Withers Hall – Withers Hall
Room: 331