Queer Tatreez Visual Poetics Chosen for Tendrils Literary Journal

Tendrils Literary Journal is a print publication as well as a highly competitive and curated online journal. For the online journal, only nine works were chosen out of many submissions and I am honored to be included in the issue. 

I am so excited to announce that work "Whispers (Queer Tatreez)" was chosen for online publication. The poem has a variable structure and questions...what happens to us when we can no longer hear the whispers of the poppies? The artwork in the poem is vividly stunning and references trauma, tears, and sumud.

Link to the issue:
 

Trauma and the Body Issue, June 2025
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body

 
Link to my work in the issue:
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers

Queer Tatreez Artwork - Gallery Exhibition

Many thanks to Doris Bittar and the Protea Gallery, in Los Angeles, for believing in and featuring my work. 

 

                                               

Queer Tatreez is an artistic style born out of Indigenous femininities, ancestral geographies, gender diversity/inclusivity, and the land that gives us life. The feminine images and Tatreez shown here symbolize cultural resistance, timeless existence, and the intrinsic loving divinity found through feminine connections.

You can see the work online by going to @protea.gallery on IG or by visiting these links:

Death Equals Silence (Queer Tatreez)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLUzm2Rxumr/

Incendiary Kalaf الْكَلَفُ  (Queer Tatreez)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLPqt7NxRVf/

Homecoming in Tetas' Tatreez Galaxy (Queer Tatreez)...For Gaza
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLPpbxPRXmC/

"For Queer and Trans Palestinians

in Palestine, and those

living in exile,

our love transcends empire."

--Micaela Kaibni Raen