Thursday, July 10, 2025

New Article and Artwork for Pride 2025

In HALA Collective Blog


New article is up on the HALA Collective Blog: No “Happy” in Pride for 2025 By Micaela Kaibni Raen. It is accompanied by new artwork “No Pride in Genocide (Queer Tatreez).” Thank you @mamaganuush and @thehalacollective for being the embodiment/vision of love for our communities of color and activism towards justice.

Click here to view it:

https://www.thehalacollective.com/blog/no-happy-in-pride-for-2025-by-micaela-kaibni-raen


Short excerpt from the article: 
Our grandmothers’ tears of Tatreez live on through us. Her tightly sewn stitches hold hope, resistance, and sumud...our cultural inheritance. We are more than fierce grief...we are ancestral indigeneities in human form dreamed into being by our ancestors. We were formed by dreams, sand and stardust but we are shaped by love. We are Palestine. With Palestine, and so much of the world, facing genocides and health catastrophes, it is a crucial time for all of us to continue building our community movements…demanding racial, gender, and land justice. 
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

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:
 









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