Stitching eco-feminist poetics and Indigenous Palestinian textiles into print and digitized spaces to breakthrough a technomediated world.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
New Article and Artwork for Pride 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Queer Tatreez Visual Poetics Chosen for Tendrils Literary Journal
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:
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
Monday, June 23, 2025
Queer Tatreez Artwork - Gallery Exhibition
Death Equals Silence (Queer Tatreez)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLUzm2Rxumr/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLPqt7NxRVf/
Homecoming in Tetas' Tatreez Galaxy (Queer Tatreez)...For Gaza
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLPpbxPRXmC/
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Time in the Studio
Last week, a gallery asked for one of my art pieces for inclusion in a show. I was very honored to be included. Then they said that they also want a picture of me working in my studio.
For so long...so many emotions have been poured into my art. Rage, tears, grief, frustration, despair, love, sexuality, pride, glitter, and sumud…my teary eyed hope.However, on this day I was asked to take a picture of myself in the studio creating…what showed up was joy.
Click on the link to check it out...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLOVXfDRN2P/
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
New Anthology Available for Purchase
This anthology is brimming with vivid Palestinian cultural vibrance while being deeply honest, fiercely emotional, powerfully resistant, and spiritually transcendent. Thank you for all you do…George Abraham, Noor Hindi, and Haymarket Books.
Friday, June 6, 2025
New Queer Tatreez Artwork in Baladi Magazine
Dedicated to Queer/Trans Palestinians
living in Palestine and those in the exile.
Thank you so much Baladi Magazine
for this amazing opportunity
to share my dreams
for our beloved
Palestine
and for us all.
The artist statement included
discusses the
inspiration for the artwork.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Tatreez Thoughts - Micaela Kaibni Raen
My creative works are most often inspired and centered by Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian embroidery and textiles. Palestinian Tatreez, an organic part of our culture, also shares imperative values with gender, racial, and land justice movements.
Wearing, creating, and working with Palestinian Tatreez is a powerful remembrance and way to connect with our ancestors, our communities, and ourselves. I want to thank our grandmothers for leaving this full, rich, emotional, and visionary legacy. A legacy of traditions, family, culture and identity. A legacy of hope, sumud, and land stitched in Tatreez.
I am so grateful to the Palestinian Tatreez Artists from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They are the true archivists of our herstory, history, identity, and culture. Each new stich they lay, designs an exquisite blueprint for our futures.
All quotes by Micaela Kaibni Raen.
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...
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!
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Something Beautiful
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
New Artwork is Stunning in this Beautiful Chilean Magazine.
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.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Feminist and Indigenous Publication Announcements
To be Featured on IG and on website for purchase.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
AWP Conference in Los Angeles
Saturday, March 8, 2025
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.
- 15 Poems
- 1 Queer Tatreez Visual Poem
- 1 Visual Poetic Poem
- 2 Flash Nonfiction Pieces
- 1 Article/Blog
- 2 Queer Tatreez Visual Art Pieces
Monday, January 13, 2025
New Publications Available for Purchase
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.