‘This shop will fail’: punk bookstore to get community in the door

From The Lawrence Times

If Lawrencians are going to confuse the Ecumenical Campus Ministries for a church, executive director Jessie Duke at least wants it to seem like a wild one. That’s why she opened a punk, anarchist bookstore in the building. “Because it presents as a church, often people are afraid to come here,” Duke said. “There’s a lot of people that feel isolated from that, or have trauma around being in religious spaces.”

Lawrence Anarchist Bookfair Reportback

So there were like 10 tables of zine distro. And they were okay warzone, civ fucks that kinda thing. But omg there were some magnificent zines of perfection at the KC food not bombs table. See everyone was a fuckin nerd and we're reading shit and all the zines had stuff to read. And I hate reading boooorings.

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