Queer Ecology & Lavender Rising

 Queer Tatreez

Featured In Lavender Rising Magazine

 Pride Issue, June 2026

Cover Art & Art Inside

Available free online at

https://onceuponaqueer.com/lavender-rising

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No Pride in Genocides 2026

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. 

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Pending Pubs Coming Soon

To commission or solicit artwork for curation,

please contact the artist via the online form provided on this page.

Journals/Magazines

Lavender Rising

Cover Art & Interior Visual Art
Pending Summer 2026

Black Warrior Review
Visual Poetics
Pending Summer 2026

EPOCH

Visual Poetics
Pending Summer 2026

Sinister Wisdom (SWANA Dykes Issue)
Cover Art, Artist Statement with Poetry
Pending Autumn 2026

Anthology Inclusions

SWANA Dykes

Sinister Wisdom Trade Book 

Cover Art & Artist Statement
PREORDERS @
https://bookshop.org/p/books/swana-dykes-khadija-pitts-ceesay/fd5be70233537c55?ean=9781970841008&next=t
Pending Autumn 2026

The Poetry of Arab Women:

A Contemporary Anthology

25th Anniversary Edition

Interlink Publishing

Poetry

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

Pending 2026

Homosexual Intifada

Interlink Publishing
Visual Poetics

PREORDERS @ https://interlinkbooks.com/product/homosexual-intifada/
Pending Summer 2026

Olive Tree Editorial Zine
Trade Book Edition

Poetry and Visual Art
Pending 2027

ACT UP! Beyond New York

Haymarket Books

Memoir Essay

Pending 2027

More exciting announcements coming soon!

Micaela Kaibni Raen is a queer Palestinian American mother from the Little Arabia community in California. She has been recognized by the Lesbian Herstory Archives for her activism and is the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery. A Tin House Alum, her work is featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; The Poetry of Arab Women; Yellow Medicine Review; Heaven Looks Like Us; and Homosexual Intifada. Her visual artwork has been showcased by Black Warrior Review, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Rising, Fanana MKE, Resistance at A.R.T./New York, and Protea Gallery in Los Angeles.

Socials:
Site:           https://micaelakaibniraen.blogspot.com/
Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/micaelakaibniraen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/micaelakaibniraen/

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