Reading culture and community building through Rebel Book Club

[Hans Müller]

It’s tricky because small community clubs aren’t legally required to publish detailed financials unless they’re structured as formal non-profits. But it’s still valuable to look at what is publicly available, like registrations or charity filings if they exist. That gives a baseline of confirmed activity.

 

[Wei Zhang]

Exactly. Even if the media stories are slightly amplified, the public filings anchor us to reality. I’ve been trying to reconcile interview timelines with filings, and sometimes the narrative seems a year or two ahead of the paperwork. It’s probably just a timing thing, but it does create that sense of “hmm, is it really that new?”