CashApp

plural CashApps

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cash App.

   Find PayPals, Venmos, or CashApps of BIPOC and randomly donate money as reparations.

   2024, Maria Minnis, “The Lovers”, in Tarot for the Hard Work: An Archetypal Journey to Confront Racism and Inspire Collective Healing, Newburyport, Mass.: Weiser Books, →ISBN, section “Choosing to Redistribute Wealth”

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   You’re a modern woman who knows her worth and acts accordingly—you’ll only accept suitors if they shower you with attention (read: random CashApps) and gifts (read: memes about Ted Cruz).

   2021, Jen Winston, “A Story to Ease the Author’s Impostor Syndrome”, in Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, New York, N.Y.: Atria Paperbacks, →ISBN

   It was part of a larger trend of monetizing the demand for unpaid emotional labor that became bigger and bigger after the 2016 election. At first, posting a Venmo or CashApp “for emotional labor” was something I noticed activists doing, usually Black women who were being asked to donate their time and expertise for free to the public, and even to private institutions with the budget to pay them.

   2022, Aimée Lutkin, “What Is Dating?”, in The Lonely Hunter: How Our Search for Love Is Broken: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, part 1, page 94

   She found out everything. She saw our CashApps, and she even tracked me to the hospital when I came to visit you last week.

   2023 November, Simone Kelly, “Chapter 4: Journey”, in Journey’s Revenge: A #1544 Novel, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, LLC, →ISBN, page 60

   More recently, the platform [Spotify] has announced plans to introduce a ‘Merch Hub’ – listeners will be able buy^([sic]) merch from their favourite musicians within the app, while musicians themselves can directly link to their CashApps or GoFundMes.

   2024, Cher Tan, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, Sydney, N.S.W.: NewSouth Publishing, →ISBN

   Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?

   2024, Too Black, Rasul A. Mowatt, “Conclusion”, in Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN

present singular third person CashApps · participle present CashApping · participle past CashApped · past CashApped

1. alternativeAlternative form of Cash App.

   Honey CashApped Bae the money, but Bae refunded it.

   2023, Monica Walters, Treasure Hernandez, Full Figured 18, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Urban Books, →ISBN

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   I CashApped her fifteen hundred dollars to go to the funeral in Texas.

   2020, Mary B. Morrison, Careful What You Click For, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, published 2022, →ISBN

   He CashApped me a hundred-dollar deposit, to demonstrate that he was serious, which was refreshing.

   2022, Lizzie Borden, editor, Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, →ISBN