You know us, babies. We’re not just finance bloggers, we’re cool finance bloggers.
We try to approach the topic of money and economics with a tiny smidge of compassion for people who aren’t making six figures a year. You know: almost everyone.
This also involves interrogating the reasons why some people make a fuckton of money and others struggle to get by. Which naturally leads to speculation on how we can all make the world a better place for everyone.
As a result, we’ve famously published some opinions on the intersection of SJW-dom and money-dom. We’re financial feminists, and we want you to know all about it! Whether you like it or not!
So here’s a collection of our misandrist, socialist, SJW, race-betraying, gay-agenda-having opinions. If there’s a topic we haven’t covered below, or if we have more to learn on any of these topics (spoiler alert: we definitely do), leave us a comment to let us know!
On poverty:
Starting from nothing
- How To Start at Rock Bottom: Welfare Programs and the Social Safety Net
- How to Save for Retirement When You Make Less Than $30,000 a Year
- Ask the Bitches: “Is It Too Late to Get My Financial Shit Together?“
Understanding why people are poor
- It’s More Expensive to Be Poor Than to Be Rich
- Why Are Poor People Poor and Rich People Rich?
- On Financial Discipline, Generational Poverty, and Marshmallows
- Bitchtastic Book Review: Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirado
- Is Gentrification Just Artisanal, Small-Batch Displacement of the Poor?
- Coronavirus Reveals America’s Pre-existing Conditions, Part 1: Healthcare, Housing, and Labor Rights
Developing compassion for poor people
- The Latte Factor, Poor Shaming, and Economic Compassion
- Ask the Bitches: “How Do I Stop Myself from Judging Homeless People?“
- The Subjectivity of Wealth, Or: Don’t Tell Me What’s Expensive
- A Little Princess: Intersectional Feminist Masterpiece?
- If You Can’t Afford to Tip 20%, You Can’t Afford to Dine Out
Correcting income inequality
- 1 Easy Way All Allies Can Help Close the Gender and Racial Pay Gap
- One Reason Women Make Less Money? They’re Afraid of Being Raped and Killed.
- Raising the Minimum Wage Would Make All Our Lives Better
- Are Unions Good or Bad?
On intersectional social issues:
Reproductive rights
- On Pulling Weeds and Fighting Back: How (and Why) to Protect Abortion Rights
- How To Get an Abortion
- Blood Money: Menstrual Products for Surviving Your Period While Poor
- You Don’t Have to Have Kids
Gender equality
- 1 Easy Way All Allies Can Help Close the Gender and Racial Pay Gap
- The Pink Tax, Or: How I Learned to Love Smelling Like “Bearglove”
- Our Single Best Piece of Advice for Women (and Men) on International Women’s Day
- Bitchtastic Book Review: The Feminist Financial Handbook by Brynne Conroy
- Sexual Harassment: How to Identify and Fight It in the Workplace
Queer issues
- Queer Finance 101: Ten Ways That Sexual and Gender Identity Affect Finances
- Leaving Home before 18: A Practical Guide for Cast-Offs, Runaways, and Everybody in Between
Racial justice
- The Financial Advantages of Being White
- Woke at Work: How to Inject Your Values into Your Boring, Lame-Ass Job
- The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander: A Bitchtastic Book Review
- Something Is Wrong in Personal Finance. Here’s How To Make It More Inclusive.
- The Biggest Threat to Black Wealth Is White Terrorism
- Coronavirus Reveals America’s Pre-existing Conditions, Part 2: Racial and Gender Inequality
- 10 Rad Black Money Experts to Follow Right the Hell Now
Youth issues
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Student Loans
- The Ugly Truth About Unpaid Internships
- Ask the Bitches: “I Just Turned 18 and My Parents Are Kicking Me Out. How Do I Brace Myself?”
Identifying and combatting abuse
- When Money is the Weapon: Understanding Intimate Partner Financial Abuse
- Are You Working on the Next Fyre Festival?: Identifying a Toxic Workplace
- Ask the Bitches: “How Do I Say ‘No’ When a Loved One Asks for Money… Again?”
- Ask the Bitches: I Was Guilted Into Caring for a Sick, Abusive Parent. Now What?
On mental health:
Understanding mental health issues
- How Mental Health Affects Your Finances
- Stop Recommending Therapy Like It’s a Magic Bean That’ll Grow Me a Beanstalk to Neurotypicaltown
- Bitchtastic Book Review: Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos and Your Big Brain
- Ask the Bitches: “How Do I Protect My Own Mental Health While Still Helping Others?”
Coping with mental health issues
- { MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care
- My 25 Secrets to Successfully Working from Home with ADHD
- Our Master List of 100% Free Mental Health Self-Care Tactics
On saving the planet:
Changing the system
- Don’t Boo, Vote: If You Don’t Vote, No One Can Hear You Scream
- Ethical Consumption: How to Pollute the Planet and Exploit Labor Slightly Less
- The Anti-Consumerist Gift Guide: I Have No Gift to Bring, Pa Rum Pa Pum Pum
- Season 1, Episode 4: “Capitalism Is Working for Me. So How Could I Hate It?”
- Coronavirus Reveals America’s Pre-existing Conditions, Part 1: Healthcare, Housing, and Labor Rights
- Coronavirus Reveals America’s Pre-existing Conditions, Part 2: Racial and Gender Inequality
‘You are above bottled water, you elegant land mermaid’ remains one of the my favorite titles for anything, ever.
[takes a bow]
A shout out from Sweden. Really enjoying your blog and podcast.
I found your blog via your epic post “Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying: Finance Philosophy Explained by The Shawshank Redemption”.
Keep on rockin!
Aw shucks. You’re making us blush! Thanks, Sweden!
I’m fairly new to your blog, and I literally just binged on a bunch of these articles. I’m loving the titles, the content, the attitude! All your writing on how the corporate world works spoke to me in particular, which is something I’ve reflected on quite often recently. I’m now going to binge-read some more!