The Devil is a prism
community updates and $6k in donations from sales this year!
Dear readers, friends, contributors, and beloved co-conspirators,
Last week, we gathered at the
Towards the end of the discussion, someone in the audience offered the idea of The Devil as a prism: something that refracts, splits, and reveals its complexity the deeper you go. A contradictory spectrum of both desire and oppression. It shows us how we are chained, and, in doing so, can also show us how to break free. We spoke at length about spirituality and art-making under fascism, and about the ways we are tethered to one another in collective grief and rage. We shared how we listen to our animal bodies, how we move energy when we encounter resistance: naming what we see and feel, singing, using our voices. Not staying silent.
As
says in the editor’s note for The Devil issue, “In working with The Devil, in being brave enough to explore and interrogate what we find hidden within ourselves, we remember what it means to disobey, to raise our voices together in a rowdy and rebellious chorus, to break rules and stay weird and illuminate all that they would prefer to keep hidden.”
At one point, Bee posed a question that has been echoing in my mind ever since: What choices would we make if we believed we had enough time for everything we desired?
This is the spirit of expansive creation we’ve been dreaming about this year.
Our purpose is to support artists and build a space for creative expression around the rich language of tarot while grounding into the values of collective liberation. After accounting for operating costs (paying writers and artists for their labor + printing costs), we split profits from the sales of our publication equally between three different organizations:
The Sogorea Te Land Trust, a Bay Area-based Indigenous land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people
The National Network of Abortion Funds, which works with over 80 organizations to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access
Liberated Capital, a donor community and funding vehicle aimed at moving untethered resources to Black, Indigenous, and other people-of-color communities for liberation and racial healing.
Supporting The Rebis means supporting these organizations. You can read more about our mission here.
Thanks to all of you, we’ve been able to donate $6,000 across these three orgs from sales over the past 12 months! In total, we have donated $14,500 since starting this project. Every copy purchased helps sustain this ecosystem of mutual aid!
Another update: we’ve partnered with Broccoli Magazine for wholesale distribution of The Rebis. Their ethos as “a publisher of unusual delights” feels like kinship. Thanks to this partnership, our anthology is now on shelves around the globe: Hi Desert Times in Twentynine Palms, Heath Newsstand in San Francisco, Lucky Neighbor in Portland, Prism in Seattle, RECSPEC in Austin, Ex-Voto in Montreal, Issues Magazine Shop in Toronto, CUEMARS in London, Pinky’s in Australia, and so many more locations! Watching our books find their way into the world has been one of the brightest parts of the year.
As always, we move slowly in winter, taking stock of what wants to emerge next for The Rebis. I’m listening closely.
Thank you for reading, sharing, and supporting this beautiful project. I am grateful for this community every single day.
Hannah
Founder & editor-in-chief, The Rebis
