You guys, problems that you are to be concerned with, blah, you don't know how you're supposed to burn it or what to do with it or how to keep it.

You're a freak with a dark shameful secret, but you're not the only one who keeps your hidden financial fears.

You've got blessed the sun, now your healing has begun. It's back with wanting with Gabby.

Welcome to the finale of season two of Bad with Money, the show where we're systematically dissecting the system.

I, as always, am Gabby Dunn.

Guys, we did it. We made it to the end of the second season of Bad with Money.

Thank you all so much for listening, sharing, and letting me know your feelings about the show, which you really love to do.

We tried to go in a different direction this season, and I hope you all enjoyed my exploration slash paranoid ranting about the weird cultural values that are encoded in our financial behaviors around seemingly basic social ideas like taxes, education, marriage, medical care.

And just like last season, I'd love to know your thoughts on what you'd like to hear in the future episodes of the show. Let me hear it at BadwithMoneyAtSlate.com.

This week, however, I'm excited to bring you an episode that explicitly does what we've sort of low-key been doing here since the beginning. Queering Money.

When I started Bad with Money, a lot of my anxiety came from the fact that it was hard to see myself fitting into the financial mainstream.

And there wasn't necessarily anything ideological about that. I literally didn't understand how to reconcile my live-in-the-moment, double-make-air approach to spending with my long-term goals of, you know, having a place to live and food to eat. I dream big, you guys.

But now that I've learned a few things, I've realized that there's another way I don't see a place for myself in the American financial system.

I'm a queer lady. Moreover, I'm a queer, polyamorous woman, which means there's a lot of values that I consider fundamental to my sense of self that the American financial system doesn't value.

In fact, it's probably never even considered that these values even exist, or that I even exist. Or if it has, it's decided that they and I are not important.

And for myself and my guests on the show today, that's not good enough.

We're going to hear from a wide range of voices this week, so buckle up for another long episode, Friends.

In each case, it's going to be the voice of someone who's working hard to create community and bring value to like-minded people, which is what all of us are trying to do.

Hopefully, if you're a good person.

But for queer people and people outside the mainstream in other ways, there's the added complication of trying to make that work financially viable in an economic system that either doesn't see you.

Or in most cases, doesn't want to see you.

So one more time this season will ask the question, what the fuck are we supposed to do?

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