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PREORDER--> Homosexual Intifada

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PREORDER--> Poetry of Arab Women

https://interlinkbooks.com/product/the-poetry-of-arab-women/

PREORDER--> Sinister Wisdom SWANA DYKES

https://bookshop.org/p/books/swana-dykes-khadija-pitts-ceesay/fd5be70233537c55

Ask the Night for a Dream

 https://palestinewrites.org/product/ask-the-night-for-a-dream-palestinian-writing-from-the-diaspora-2024/

 

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2527-heaven-looks-like-us

 

Yellow Medicine Review Fall 2024

http://www.yellowmedicinereviewstore.com/store/p44/Yellow_Medicine_Review_Fall_2024.html

 

EL GHOURABAA: A QUEER AND TRANS COLLECTION OF ODDITIES

https://metonymypress.com/shop/books/el-ghourabaa-queer-trans-oddities/

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Click on my work at the following links to see my new work. 

Then click on work by the other creators in the same issue.

 

Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land

The Dodge: A Special Teaching Issue on Palestine and 
the Global Indigenous Struggle

https://thedodgemag.com/return-to-roots/rafah-queer-tatreez/

The Rauch Review

Visual poetics dedicated to queer/trans Palestinians.  

https://josephrauch.com/therauchreview/poetry/slit-light/

 

Radical Catalyst Issue 1.1 Page 12

https://radicalcatalystjournal.org/archive.html

 

Tendrils Journal

https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers

 

Chapter House Indigenous Literary Journal

https://chjournal.com/micaela-raen

 

Qafiyah Review

Poem: On the Night of Invasion 

2024, Issue Two. Yalda Award Winner. Nominated Pushcart Prize

https://www.qafiyahreview.com/micaela-kaibni-raen

 

Noor Magazine

Poem: Piled Limestone, Nominated Best of the Net

2024, Inaugural Issue

https://www.noormag.org/micaela-kaibni-raen/piled-limestone

 

Writers Resist

Artwork "Death Equals Silence" and Artist Statement 2024, Issue Three

https://www.writersresist.com/2024/06/19/death-equals-silence/

 

Koukash Review

https://www.koukash.com/issue2/woodcutters-and-waiters

 

Rowayat Literary Journal

https://rowayat.org/accept-the-moon/

 

Watch these powerful performances on YouTube:

 

Event: Workshop for Creatives 

Writing Through Genocide

Co-Facilitated with Mahru Elahi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUODM3-N2Y

Event: Who Remembers? Armenian-Palestinian Solidarities: A Reading

https://www.youtube.com/live/VA8X3_2TKIQ?si=evp0RmOvHRZygXDH

 

Event: Ask the Night for a Dream Madafeh Episode​ Palestine Museum U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y8K0x6HpaA&list=PlhervyCf8iV5PetlP0A5Dl7315-pmm7PV&index=2

If celebrating pride in 2026, it is crucial that we do not stop our activism and continue building collective community movements. While our queer/trans communities celebrate, we need to remember that many of us are grieving genocides, the loss of homes and loved ones. We are living in fear…whole communities facing daily threats of abduction, deportation, and sanctioned state violence. We must center our call to action…resisting mainstream narratives, eliminating pinkwashing, and demanding justice.

 

Full article on the Hala Blog

https://www.thehalacollective.com/blog/no-pride-in-genocides

Hear the call to action. Rise together. Create change.