Local queer-owned South Austin bookstore ReverieBooks1 holds its grand opening.
took a chance. She admits the chance was taken not for financial gain but instead a risk for passion, for community, and for healing. A year and a month later, that chance –Perkins tells the story of Reverie’s start as a post-pandemic leap of faith that occurred because a friend was shutting down his own bookstore in the same space.
“It also helps create kind of a third place sense of community for them,” Perkins explains. “T concept of the third place [is] you've got home, and you've got school or work and then it's nice to have an extra community. I think the kind of kids that are drawn to doing something like a banned book club have a lot in common, and they're all wonderful young people.”
“I admit bookstores are not financially a winning proposition to begin with,” she says, “and I always knew it was gonna look a little more like a nonprofit than a money making enterprise right? But then again, that's not really what it was for. It was for community. It was for giving back. It was for creating these sort of warm spaces for people.”
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