Radical Catalyst --> New Poem Out Now

Looking for something queer,

unapologetic, and bold?

Check out my poem in

the "Resisting Authoritarianism" issue

of Radical Catalyst Journal.

Radical Catalyst Linktree:

https://linktr.ee/radicalcatalystjournal

Volume 1, Issue 1 July 30, 2025

Direct link to work:

https://radicalcatalystjournal.org/issue1_1.html

Scroll to Page 12.

Check it out today.

World Embroidery Day

My thobe is beautifully designed, meticulously handcrafted, and aging well. 

Purchased in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1994.

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 intriguing artwork that is vividly stunning. 

Trauma and the Body Issue, June 2025

Link to the Issue
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body

 
Direct Link to My Work
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers

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.