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Micaela Kaibni Raen is a queer Palestinian American mother, creator, cultural worker, and global human rights activist. She grew up in the Little Arabia community in California and graduated from Chapman University. For over 40 years, she has advocated for Palestinians, Indigenous and displaced peoples, women, Queer/Trans youth in foster care, those affected by HIV/AIDS, and global Queer/Trans communities of color. She has participated in the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc.; the National Organization for Women; ACT UP!; and Queer Nation.
She is most known as the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery. She has been awarded the Yalda Award for Poetry as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her work has been featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; Qafiyah Review; Yellow Medicine Review; Noor; Rowayat; Koukash Review; The Poetry of Arab Women; El Ghourabaa; Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora; and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry.
With artwork showcased at Resistance at A.R.T./New York and featured by Protea Gallery, her work also appears in publication in The Olive Tree Collection, Chapter House Journal, and Baladi Magazine.
She is most known as the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery. She has been awarded the Yalda Award for Poetry as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her work has been featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; Qafiyah Review; Yellow Medicine Review; Noor; Rowayat; Koukash Review; The Poetry of Arab Women; El Ghourabaa; Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora; and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry.
With artwork showcased at Resistance at A.R.T./New York and featured by Protea Gallery, her work also appears in publication in The Olive Tree Collection, Chapter House Journal, and Baladi Magazine.
Artwork 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./NY Resistance Exhibition, 2025
Artwork & Visual Poetics
Published and Available Online
Tendrils Literary Journal
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.
Link to my work in the issue:
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers
https://www.tendrilsjournal.com/issue1-trauma-and-the-body#whispers
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
Visual Poetics
The Olive Tree
** 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
Where my work is located:
Pg 21 Poem: Genocide
Pg 70 Poem: Atrocious
Pg 72 Artwork: "Tatreez Armor Breast Plate"
@theolivetreeeditorial
Link to the Olive Tree Anthology:
Click here for online anthology link.
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
Coming Soon
More announcements!
Pending:
Sinister Wisdom
SWANA Dykes Issue - Cover Art
Pending 2026
Olive Tree Editorial Zine
Pending 2026
More exciting announcements coming soon!
