Artwork

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Gallery Exhibitions

->Protea Gallery in Los Angeles California, 2025
You can see the work online by going to @protea.gallery on IG or by visiting these links:

Death Equals Silence (Queer Tatreez)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLUzm2Rxumr/

Incendiary Kalaf الْكَلَفُ  (Queer Tatreez)

Homecoming in Tetas' Tatreez Galaxy (Queer Tatreez)...For Gaza

->A.R.T./New York , 2025
Resistance Exhibition, Autumn 2025

Artwork & Visual Poetics
Published and Available Online

Return to Roots: Writing Toward Land
The Dodge: A special teaching issue on Palestine and the Global Indigenous Struggle.
Visual Art with customized curriculum.
Print edition pending: May 2026

Fanana Milwaukee
Featured Artist Spotlight, February 2026
Visual artwork featured with two *new* pieces debuted. 
IG @fananamke

Tendrils Literary Journal
A print publication as well as a highly competitive and curated online journal. 

Baladi Magazine
Features two art pieces dedicated to queer and trans Palestinians. Here are the links for you to check out. 

Whispers' Screams (Queer Tatreez)

Wahid واحد (Queer Tatreez)

Ultramarine Literary Review
New artwork featured in a beautiful Chilean Magazine.
Click here to view artwork.


Chapter House Indigenous Literary Journal
Visual Poetics 

The Olive Tree - Soon to be released as zine.
** PLEASE SHARE ** The Olive Tree: An international collection of art protesting the ongoing genocide of Palestinians is now available online. Proud to be a part of this beautiful collection of creative work. It will break your heart and give you hope. It is a deeply spiritual search for justice and a sacred honoring of the Palestinian people through art and literature. Thank you students for your activism. #studentintifada
Pg 21 Poem: Genocide
Pg 70 Poem: Atrocious
Pg 72 Artwork: "Tatreez Armor Breast Plate"
@theolivetreeeditorial


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


Published Artwork
& Visual Poetics
In Print & Available for Purchase 

Heaven Looks Like Us
Palestinian Poetry
Edited by: George Abraham & Noor Hindi
Anthology, Haymart Books 2025

Bombay Gin Literary Journal
Naropa University, Autumn 2024

Yellow Medicine Review:
A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought
Poetry, Visual Poetics, and Flash Nonfiction Included, Fall 2024


Pending Publications
Anthologies

The Poetry of Arab Women:
A Contemporary Anthology
25th Anniversary Edition
Interlink Publishing
Poetry
Pending 2026

Homosexual Intifada
Interlink Publishing
Visual Poetics
Pending May 2026

Olive Tree Editorial Zine
Poetry and Visual Art
Pending 2026

Sinister Wisdom (Trade Book)
SWANA Dykes Issue 
Cover Art & Artist Statement
Pending 2026

Act UP! Beyond New York
Haymarket Books
Memoir Essay
Pending 2027
 

Journals/Magazines

Black Warrior Review
Visual Poetics
Pending Spring 2026

Sinister Wisdom (Issue)
SWANA Dykes Issue
Cover Art & Artist Statement
Pending 2026

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 NasMizna; The Poetry of Arab WomenYellow Medicine ReviewHeaven Looks Like Us; and Homosexual Intifada. With visual artwork showcased by Black Warrior ReviewSinister WisdomFananaMke, Resistance at A.R.T./New York, and Protea Gallery in Los Angeles.

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Web Site: https://micaelakaibniraen.blogspot.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/micaelakaibniraen
IG: @micaelakaibniraen


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