Yemisi Combahee
Yemi Combahee (she/her) is a Fat Black Queer Femme liberation strategist, full-spectrum doula, and reproductive justice organizer. Yemi is currently the Constellation Hive organizer at Black Feminist Future and she has a background in abortion advocacy, abortion clinic administration, and intimate partner violence legal advocacy. Yemi is a former co-facilitator of the queer pregnancy support groups at MAIA Midwifery. Yemi began her interest in liberation work as a Comparative Women’s Studies major at Spelman College where she began organizing and developing her radical worldview. Her work was also shaped by her time as a radical feminist bookseller at Charis Books. Yemi remains rooted in care work through her full-spectrum doula practice, Freedom Births, where she supports marginalized folks in Georgia through their reproductive journeys.“I don’t want to be anything less than my whole human self wherever I go”
Citation: Combahee, Yemisi. “I don’t want to be anything less than my whole human self wherever I go.” Interviewed by Ashby Combahee & Dartricia Rollins. 9 February 2023, Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history, georgiadusk.com.
