Her Voice: Conversations with Women on Gender Equality ft. Ashley Abercombie

Ashley Abercrombie is an author, podcast host, and champion of people. She has written two books, Love is the Resistance and Rise of the Truth Teller. Additionally, she co-hosted a podcast titled ‘Why Tho’ from 2018 to 2022. Ashley was in ministry in the nonprofit justice world for over 20 years, and she recently pivoted to the creative world. Ashley was raised in North Carolina by a single mom, and her experience growing up largely informed how she understood the term feminism.

In this episode, we discuss the power of advocacy, while emphasizing the importance of picking your battles. We are a fragile people, and fighting tooth and nail to get every person on our side of history for every single issue is only wasting our own time and energy. We can only do so much. In the midst of the chaos of this world and the energy-sucking work of disagreeing… disagreeing… disagreeing, we talk about the importance of leaning on your people. Finding good people that see us and love us as we are. They fight for us. They fight with us. This makes all of this a lot easier, and it restores some of the energy that was sucked out from all of that fighting.

Sources:

• "Is Less Really More?" An essay from my substack, After Hours https://ashleyabercrombie.substack.com/p/is-less-really-more

• Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans https://www.amazon.com/Year-Biblical-Womanhood-Liberated-Covering/dp/1595553673

• Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View on Women by Sarah Bessey https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Feminist-Invitation-Revisit-Bibles/dp/1476717257

• Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up by Tiffany Bluhm https://www.amazon.com/Prey-Tell-Silence-Women-Everyone/dp/1587434784

• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie https://www.chimamanda.com/we-should-all-be-feminists/

• Favorite Ted Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/comments

• Why Tho Podcast: "Why Women Are Still Not Equals Tho" https://podcasts.apple.com/lb/podcast/why-women-are-still-not-equals-tho/id1437939954?i=1000434667357

• The Will to Change by Bell Hooks

• https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Will-to-Change/bell-hooks/9780743456081

• Love is the Resistance: Learn to Disagree, Resolve the Conflicts You’ve been Avoiding and Create Real Change by Ashley Abercrombie

• Rise of the Truth Teller: Own Your Story, Tell it Like it is, and Live With Holy Gumption by Ashley Abercrombie