Tatreez Thoughts - Micaela Kaibni Raen

My creative works are most often inspired and centered by Tatreez, Indigenous Palestinian embroidery and textiles. Palestinian Tatreez, an organic part of our culture, also shares imperative values with gender, racial, and land justice movements. 

Wearing, creating, and working with Palestinian Tatreez is a powerful remembrance connecting us with our ancestors, our communities, and ourselves. I want to thank our grandmothers for leaving this full, rich, emotional, and visionary legacy. A legacy of traditions, family, culture and identity. A legacy of resistance, sumud, and land stitched in Tatreez.

I am so grateful to the Palestinian Tatreez Artists from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. They are the true archivists of our herstory, history, identity, and culture. With each new stitch they continue to design an exquisite blueprint for our futures. 

All quotes by Micaela Kaibni Raen.

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My Act UP! Jacket and Ensemble from the 1990s is on Display

I am so honored to have my activist clothing from the 1990s on display at the Resistance Exhibition for A Night of Unstageable Works at 7:30 p.m. at TheaterLab in New York.  May 17th will be a memorable night. 

For more information check out... www.theaterlabnyc.com and @lighthouseladiesco

Sponsored by the Lighthouse Ladies. Thank you for all your hard work, Dot Persica.

Here is a Sneak Peek...

There will also be three new Queer Tatreez art pieces on display at the event. Artwork is dedicated to Queer/Trans Palestinians, Southwest Asian/ North African (SWANA) Queer/Trans women, Dykes, and sapphic folk.

After the show, the 1990s items will be on display at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York. For more information about the Archives go to https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org