We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
- Gloria Steinem
For more than five years, we helped give you the actionable tools you needed to get out of debt, save more, grow your wealth and give back to our world. At She Spends, you could find educational content and a supportive community.
In September 2022, we decided to pause the project, but the archive will live on forever.
Illustration, Gina Lerman 2019
For journalist Lyanne Alfaro, the relationship between money and identity is inextricable.
A first-generation Latina, Lyanne turned her business journalism skills and interest in culture and money into a newsletter and podcast called Moneda Moves. Both explore the relationship Latinx folks have with business, money, and the American economy.
The extra $600 per week in unemployment assistance provided by the CARES Act is about to run out, and Congress has yet to pass a bill to extend it. Here’s what we can do next.
Ta-Nehisi Coates made the case for reparations in 2014. But the federal government hasn't done anything since. Here's how we take things into our own hands.
Cash bail disproportionately affects Black Americans. Here's what you need to know about it.
Strip clubs are shut down, cam sites are saturated with newcomers & IRL sex work means risking Covid-19. She Spends freelancer Kira Rosemarie covers what it means to be a sex worker during the global pandemic.
Paynter and two friends started ilostmygig.com to connect workers with direct aid.
When South by Southwest officials announced that they were canceling the festival last week, three Austin residents sprung into action.
Mary Kathryn Paynter, Luke Lashley, and Shelly Lashley created a website called ilostmygig.com overnight, which aims to amplify the voices of displaced workers and connect them with the aid they need.
Paynter, a She Spends reader, spoke with us about what that process was like, how she and other Austin locals are coping, and what people can do to help.
Julia Reinstein, a staff reporter at Buzzfeed and a member of the union’s bargaining committee, talked with She Spends about how it all went down.
Gina lives as a freelance artist in Philadelphia. She shared with She Spends how she makes rent through her art.
Have a good money story? A scary money story? A funny money story? We want to hear it!
Sarah Solomon, author of Guac Is Extra But So Am I, shared her story with She Spends.
