Feminist Book Society: It's Time We Talk About Money.

Feminist Book Society is back at the House on Wednesday 13th July to discuss all things money, with an unmissable panel of authors: Selina Flavius, Clare Seal, and Vicky Spratt. Join them in the Chapel to talk all things feminist finance, for empowering tips and fascinating insight into the current financial crisis, into who makes the rules and who gets left behind, and why the fight for equality must shape all our financial futures.

About the authors

Selina Flavius created and runs the financial coaching and training platform Black Girl Finance. A conversation with a colleague about investing and financial goals prompted Selina to research how women of colour fare when it comes to their money and finances - and, after reading the ethnicity pay gap statistics, was determined to help women start thriving financially. After carrying out a mini-survey about how best women respond to information about finances and doing a web-design course, she put her thoughts into action and launched her website and Instagram account in April 2019 to create a safe space for women to talk about all things money. She is a British Bank award winner for online financial influencer of the year 2021, an ambassador for the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, and has featured on ITV Lorraine as part of the saver squad. Black Girl Finance is Selina’s first book.

Clare Seal is a writer, speaker, and author. She came to write her first book, Real-Life Money, after battling a difficult relationship with money for most of her adult life, finally realizing that there must be more to the equation than just numbers. She works as a financial wellbeing speaker and writer, posting as @myfrugalyear on Instagram and curating her digital media platform, The FW Forum.

Vicky Spratt is a journalist whose work regularly shapes public policy. Her 2016 campaign ‘Make Renting Fair’ led to letting fees in England and Wales being banned, and she has spoken at political conferences, all-party parliamentary groups, and panels across the country on the issue of housing. She has appeared on BBC News, Newsnight, Woman’s Hour, Radio 4, and NTS Radio. In 2020, she was nominated as Journalist of the Year at the Drum Awards for Online Media, and in 2021 her stories delving deep into Britain’s housing emergency saw her shortlisted for a British Journalism Award. She is currently the I Paper’s Housing Correspondent and a writer and editor at Refinery29.

About Feminist Book Society

Bookish, Curious, Inclusive, Challenging, and Kind, Feminist Book Society presents book events with a difference. For each event, we bring together three completely different authors who would never otherwise share a stage, to discuss a burning feminist issue. From friendship to motherhood, solidarity to self-preservation, Feminist Book Society tackles the issues which affect us all, with openness, determination and good humour.