About YEMAH

Hello Substack!

I’ve brought myself here to keep expanding and experimenting with f o r m as I continue my work as an artist-healer and priestess, decolonizing/reindigenzing from the inside out.

A WORD FROM EUNSONG KIM, SCHOLAR, POET, TRANSLATOR, VISUAL CULTURALIST AND MORE:

"Form & Content, Form & Power are inseparable.

...What might it be to imagine a future, present and a history—where Black artists and poets are not “sharing” or borrowing “forms” from white institutions but are fundamentally prompting and innovating all forms?

Altering from the root, always from the root." 1

I, (hello! I am “I”!) have never met Kim, but Kim’s questions are potent and synonymous with mine. Over the last several years, I have been on the journey to answer them through my work, my words, my worlds.

I work to incite and inspire sublime new forms of Art, structures, and communal systems that break the brutal boundaries of the colonial imagination.

I live in loving refusal of the way things are and look toward the reindigenized ancient-future; sharing what I see, feel and experience from that place to support us in welcoming in a new way to live, grow and Be.

Form & Power are inseparable, because the power of creating, the power of Art, is a blueprint for healing and liberation when we remember that

It is Ancestral to create.

It is Spiritual to create.

It is our birthrite.

I am here to remind us.

And I Want

The seven generations ahead of us to know Us as the ones who turned the page on the lie of separation from the Mother, from the Divine, from Ancestors and from all of life as an Art.

So here on Substack, I look toward the reindigenized ancient-future; sharing what I see, feel and experience from that place to support us in welcoming in a new way to live, grow and Be, together and I share the perspectives that have brought me to this moment,

In Whatever f o r m s they take.

I hope you are inspired to witness/support/signify/pray into/take in my experience as I walk the Path of Process, Deep Listening, and Dreaming myself Awake from oppression, suppression, and false ideas of who I truly Am. My prayer is that we move together into the exquisite, sometimes excruciating light of a new world.

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Here’s How I’m thinking about Paid Subs

I want paid subscribers who are really moved by my work on this platform, and off of it, and want to infuse the web of life with a giving that feels good and true to Them. Some of you will come from my world as an artist-healer, and just want to give a monthly amount to me on my path because you’ve already asked to do it, you wanted to ask to do it, and you know how much it helps me. Some of you I hope will be inspired over time here on Substack 👋🏽 and feel compelled to support because you want it. Paid subscriptions to YEMAH start at $7/mo.

The Founding Plan, called Encircle, is $144 flat. I chose that amount, not based on the math of the monthly or yearly plan, but because 144 hertz is a harmonizing frequency in music, integrating the body, mind and Spirit in an awareness of Self as One. Encircle is for beloveds who can and want to be in that energetic—financially, emotionally and spiritually. There are early and special releases for people who step into that commitment to dream into the ancestral imagination, together.

I want to be able to say: This sacred work is brought to you by beloveds across the world, through the magic of the unseen; in service of building the radical imaginaries through the Great Turn. And I will as we grow.

Let’s begin.

—QGYT

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