Tuesday, May 13, 2025

My Act UP! Jacket and Ensemble from the 1990s is on Display

I am so honored to have my activist clothing from the 1990s on display at the Resistance Exhibition for A Night of Unstageable Works at 7:30 p.m. at TheaterLab in New York.  May 17th will be a memorable night. 

For more information check out... www.theaterlabnyc.com and @lighthouseladiesco

Sponsored by the Lighthouse Ladies. Thank you for all your hard work, Dot Persica.

Here is a Sneak Peek...

There will also be three new Queer Tatreez art pieces on display at the event. Artwork is dedicated to Queer/Trans Palestinians, Southwest Asian/ North African (SWANA) Queer/Trans women, Dykes, and sapphic folk.



After the show, the 1990s items will be on display at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York. For more information about the Archives go to https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org


Saturday, May 10, 2025

Mother's Day Thoughts

 For Palestinian Mothers Everywhere






Check out the Mother's Day Slide Show
From Palestine Writes


Please give to mutual aid organizations/NGOs
directly working to deliver aid to Palestine. 
Let's work together to end the siege
 and stop genocide.




Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Exciting News!

Thank you Tin House! I am honored and excited to work with so many talented creators this summer…and beyond the moon to study poetry with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha!

 


“Our grandmothers’ tears of Tatreez live on through us. Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian embroidery, holds hope, tears and sumud...our cultural inheritance. Their gift to us for the enduring. We are more than fierce grief…we are ancestral indigeneities in human form dreamed into being by our ancestors. We are love, strength, art, magic and so much more. We were formed by dreams, sand and stardust, but we are shaped by love. 
We are poetry. We are Palestine.”

— Micaela Kaibni Raen


Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Something Beautiful

Ask the Night for a Dream:
Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora
Available Now for Pre-order.

I am deeply grateful to represent my family and homeland through art and poetry. It means so much to be included beside so many talented creators within the pages of this beautiful and powerful anthology. 

 


Palestine Writes Press

Order Link




Tuesday, April 22, 2025

*New* Artwork in this beautiful Chilean magazine.

Ultramarine Literary Review
Title: “Last Flight Home.” The artwork speaks to the global loss of life in Queer/Trans communities. Most of us surviving without basic human rights.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Quote from a National Organization for Women's Event in 1990

It is hard to believe that 1990 was 35 years ago! It must be time to start working on my memoir. While preparing some items for the archives, I found my speech notes from this event. Here is a quote from the talk.





Sunday, March 30, 2025

Yellow Medicine Review

Thank you, Yellow Medicine Review,  for publishing my visual poem in such vibrant color. It means so much to be able to share my words and my art in color; it's full expression.



The Fall 2024 issue contains many works by
talented Indigenous creators and six of my works. 
The issue is available for purchase at 



Please consider purchasing the issue. 
It is a great way to support Indigenous creators. 




Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Feminist and Indigenous Publication Announcements

Recent & Coming Soon

Chapter House Indigenous Literary Journal
Visual Poetics dedicated to the Palestinian Poppy. 
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Yellow Medicine Review
Winter 2024 Issue
Six works include: 
poetry, visual poetics, and flash nonfiction.

Writers Resist 
Artwork "Death Equals Silence"  and Artist Statement
Available in Issue Three (2024)

Sinister Wisdom
Cover Art for the SWANA Dykes Issue
Pending Winter 2026

Art for Palestine
(Art for Mankind) Donated Art
To be Featured on IG and on website for purchase.
Pending Spring 2025


Anthologies Available for Pre-Order

Ask the Night for a Dream:
Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora

Edited by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Publisher: Palestine Writes Press

Poem Included: Sitti's Stars

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

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Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry

Editors Editors: George Abraham & Noor Hindi
Publisher: Haymart Books, Pending May 2025


Visual Poetic Poem Included: 
Silence of Fire (Queer Tatreez)

Pre-order Link


More exciting announcements coming soon!
 
 


Saturday, March 22, 2025

Thread to Cloth

I am my grandmother's dream and she is mine. We exist together through Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian Embroidery. Today while creating new artwork, I decided to turn it into a beautiful background for a quote. 

Here is the final product...







AWP Conference in Los Angeles

                   SAVE THE DATE




For more information about the AWP Conference:
https://awpwriter.org/AWP/Conference-Bookfair/Overview.aspx

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

A Year in Review

As we move forward, we bring with us those affected by genocides, past and present, around the globe...and in so doing, we grieve unconceivable losses to humanity and our mother-planet. Through art and poetry, my work mourns violence against humanity and strives to uncover new perceptions through the lens of culture, love, loss, grief and rage. Through artistic activism, I process deep emotion, dream my people free, and seek out new futures.




Published work in 2024:
  • 15 Poems
  • 1 Queer Tatreez Visual Poem
  • 1 Visual Poetic Poem
  • 2 Flash Nonfiction Pieces
  • 1 Article/Blog
  • 2 Queer Tatreez Visual Art Pieces
I am my grandmothers’ dream, and she is mine. We exist together through Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian textiles and embroidery. Together, we share cultural memory, ancestral wisdom, and visions of new futures. Thank you to the journals and magazines that have supported my work and my voice. I am deeply grateful to represent my family and homeland through art and poetry. I admire your courage and resolve in showcasing Indigenous Palestinian voices during this turbulent and violent time. It means so much to me to be included, beside so many talented creators, within the pages of your publications.

For more detailed information, 
click on the "Publications" tab above.

Monday, January 13, 2025

New Publications Available for Purchase

Yellow Medicine Review
Fall 2024 Issue

I am so inspired by the talented authors in the current issue of Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. I appreciate YMR so much for their mission and hard work on this beautiful publication. So honored to represent my family and homeland through art and poetry.

  

Yellow Medicine Review Store


Ask the Night for a Dream
Published by Palestine Writes Press

Pre-order available for this new anthology! I am deeply grateful to represent my family and homeland through art and poetry. It means so much to be included beside so many talented creators within the pages of this beautiful publication.

  

Palestine Writes Press Order Page

Purchasing these publications
is an important way to support
Southwest Asian/North African creators.