Preorder The Star anthology
114 pages of art & creative writing from 30+ contributors
Exciting news: The Star is now available for preorder!
This issue, our third volume, features more than 30 writers and artists exploring themes of The Star. These pages are filled with dreams, practical actions for change, and existential resilience. We embark on unconventional healing journeys and transition into bodies that feel like home. We examine the connection between erotic power and collective liberation. There’s a vengeful underworld goddess and an ancient Orphic hymn. We talk to birds, go to queer yoga, make kimchi with friends, and deconstruct the cis-hetero nuclear family model. We travel to new worlds built after the old worlds fall.
Features: The Star is a beautiful full-color book with a matte softcover and 114 pages of personal essays, fiction, poetry, prose, and original artwork.
Shipping: Order your copy of The Star today and it’ll ship out in mid-October. We ship via USPS media mail to keep rates as low as possible.
International folks: This issue is meant to be experienced physically, but if you live outside the U.S. and find shipping costs too high, there will be a digital PDF available in October. Stay tuned for an announcement!
The Rebis is a not-for-profit publication: We distribute profits equally between three social justice orgs: The Sogorea Te Land Trust; The National Network of Abortion Funds; and Liberated Capital. Since 2022, we’ve donated more than $4800 through sales. Your purchase of The Star directly contributes to the success of these organizations!
We believe that art plays an important role in liberation movements — we amplify underrepresented voices and pay artists and writers fairly. Now more than ever, we desperately need artists and writers to thrive, to be free to do their work, so that we may (re)imagine and (re)build the future. Learn more about our mission.
I am profoundly grateful to all of the contributors who shared their Star stories in this volume. A special thank you to
for their exceptional guest editing, Xaviera Lopez for her artwork and brilliant creative direction, and Nick Jacobs for his gorgeous design and production work.On a personal note: The Rebis is an intimate, alchemical project. Over the past few years, my life has followed the arc of our publications. I have gone through many major life transitions in a very short period of time. If I’ve learned anything from this, it’s that time is not linear. Neither is “healing” or “growth.” I’ve accepted that change is a spiralic, fractal experience. A Wheel.
We travel forwards and backwards, fall from high Towers, burn to ash. Our hearts break, our bodies crack open. We surrender. We face ourselves, our desires, our shadows, our shame. We climb into The Chariot, forge new paths, risk being seen. Armor strips away. Naked and vulnerable, we learn how to love ourselves. We kneel in the dirt, ask questions, make offerings. Embrace possibility.
This is how I believe we encounter The Star.
Sincerely,
Hannah
Founder & editor
