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Why Our Money is Funny

Why Our Money is Funny

Black women do economics + Is This a Racist Country + Love Sacs

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
May 01, 2021
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The last few weeks, I have been thinking about money.

To be fair, I think about money a lot. I just do it more for work than I do for pleasure. I wrote about “new money” travails (don’t cry for me, of course). That essay generated a lot of personal reflections about readers’ relationship to money. It also generated a lot of coded language about something…

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