Melissa Arjona
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Melissa Arjona is an adjunct English professor and activist living in south Texas. She is an avid reader of fiction and women’s history and records her literary musings on her book blog, The Feminist Texican [Reads]. She also contributes to PostBourgie.

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Transferring Power: Or, Why I Pulled My Head Out of the Sand and Switched to a Credit Union

Posted November 8, 2011 | 10:46 AM (EST)

The red flags have always been there.

I was probably a sophomore in undergrad when Wells Fargo, in all their infinite wisdom, decided to increase the spending limit on my credit card to eighteen thousand dollars. Eighteen thousand dollars. For a nineteen-year-old student who only worked part-time and still lived...

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