As an African American woman, I can speak to my own reasons for avoiding talking about money. To get excited about flourishing in capitalist models calls integrity into question every time! Money does and always will manifest as the whip of my ancestors. I have often been faced with the intentional choice to avoid the “Devil’s handshake” (when I am asked to give something of my mission and vision up to obtain the capital to survive). Therefore, part of my “wake work” is to consider money as something generative, to transform my relationship to money so that I may achieve, steward, and facilitate the reparations and social justice I want to see in the world