holyfunnyhistoryherring reblogged
On poverty:
Starting from nothing
- How to Start at Rock Bottom
- 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?
- The Magically Delicious Intersection of Financial Discipline, Generational Poverty, and Marshmallows
- Bitchtastic Book Review: Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirado
- Gentrification: 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 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: 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
- Econ Nerd Book Review: The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
- Something Is Wrong in Personal Finance. Here’s How to Fix It.
- 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 for Years. 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
- I Have No Gift to Bring Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum: The Anti-Consumerist Gift Guide
- 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
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