Micaela
Kaibni Raen

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 most known as the creator of Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian embroidery. Her work is featured in Bint el Nas; Mizna; Qafiyah Review; The Poetry of Arab Women; Ask the Night for a Dream; and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. With visual artwork showcased by Yellow Medicine Review; Resistance at A.R.T./New York, and Protea Gallery in Los Angeles.