Dedicated to Queer/Trans Palestinians
living in Palestine and those in the exile.
Thank you so much Baladi Magazine
for this amazing opportunity
to share my dreams
for our beloved
Palestine
and for us all.
The artist statement included
discusses the
inspiration for the artwork.
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.