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Gallery Exhibitions

Pending:
Exhibition for Arab American Heritage Month, April 2027
San Diego, California, US
More Information Coming Soon


Completed:
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 & Featured Artist
Selected Works Published Online

Lavender Rising Magazine
Cover Art! "Olive Sunrise (Queer Tatreez)” artwork is on the cover of Lavender Rising. Nature is queer. Nature defies binary thinking. Also inside the magazine is more Queer Tatreez.” June 2026, Pride Issue

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

Fanana Milwaukee
Featured Artist Spotlight, February 2026
Visual artwork featured with two *new* pieces of Queer Tatreez 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 


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


Published Artwork
& Visual Poetics
Selected Works In-Print & Available for Purchase 

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

Black Warrior Review
Visual Poetics
Spring/Summer 2026
https://bwr.ua.edu/subscribe/

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

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. With visual artwork showcased by Black Warrior Review, Sinister Wisdom, FananaMke, 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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