Food insecurity isn’t just about hunger; it’s deeply entangled with intersectional inequalities, who’s most likely to need a food bank reflects the same barriers we see across race, disability, gender, class and housing status. I’ve supported this space in several ways over the years, contributing to Brighton & Hove City Council’s Food Strategy Action Plan and Equality Impact Assessment as an EDI officer, and delivering EDI training to Brighton & Hove Food Partnership. Food banks were never meant to be permanent, and this piece makes the case for dismantling the systems that make them necessary, not simply building more of them.