“Our timeline is that we’re doing this for the beloved community, and it’s to cultivate and grow the one we already have with each other as theTwelve, with the collaborators we are bringing on board who are kindred spirits, but also to extend it out to the city at large,” she added.
The store sells a mix of vintage and sustainable merchandise, from bamboo toothbrushes and reusable beeswax food wrap to mid-1900s glassware and hemp sweaters.
Behind it, the art gallery displays an exhibit focused on people’s relationships to meaningful objects, featuring photographs of items such as a copy of “Muppet Treasure Island” on VHS and a great-grandmother’s sugar bowl.