How: Escaping dollar signs to get $

I like how jekyll-spaceship bundles and configures MathJax; it makes my life easier. However, since I installed spaceship, when I use a dollar sign $, it automatically assumes I'm going to be in LaTeX mode---even if I escape it, \$. I know there is an option for MathJax called processEscapes that allows me to escape the dollar sign when I want to have a dollar sign (instead of enter LaTeX mode), but I'm not sure how to enable this with jekyll-spaceship.