Headed to Congress with Jenn Taylor-Skinner

#### The midterms are over (though the recounts and runoffs may not be). So we make sense of what happened—and what’s next—with Jenn Taylor-Skinner, the host of our fave new feminist political podcast, The Electorette.

Jenn tells us all about why she’s feeling pretty good about the midterms, how she plans to keep up the momentum into 2020, and why having a bilateral pulmonary embolism—yep, the same thing Serena Williams had—made her take a hard pivot into podcasting in 2017. Now she’s the full-time host of [The Electorette](https://www.electorette.com/)—one of _Teen Vogue’s_ picks for political podcasts, and a show you’ve gotta add to your rotation.

> I just really wanted a space where women could speak without being interrupted. And I had no idea how much I had a hunger for that myself.

> —**Jenn Taylor-Skinner, host, [The Electorette](https://www.electorette.com/)**

**[Follow Jenn](https://twitter.com/jtaylorskinner?lang=en)** | **[Follow The Electorette](https://twitter.com/electorette)**

## On the agenda

- [More than 100 women are headed to Congress](https://www.npr.org/2018/11/06/664951794/a-list-of-firsts-for-women-in-this-years-midterm-elections)—including the [first Native women](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/us/elections/native-americans-congress-haaland-davids.html), the [first Muslim women](https://www.vox.com/2018/11/8/18072610/rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-congress-election-muslim-women), and the youngest women ever

- [Florida voted to re-enfranchise](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/6/18052374/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-rights-results) more than a million people with felony convictions—and this is _really_ freaking important

- Protecting voter rights and making sure no one ever has to wait _six hours_ at the polls should be top priority (Jenn recommends Ari Berman’s book, _[Give Us the Ballot](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/books/review/give-us-the-ballot-by-ari-berman.html)_)

- [White women gotta do better](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/white-women-vote-republican-why)

- Maxine Waters remains iconic

Plus: we fucking love all your “I Voted” sticker selfies ([here’s Sara’s!](https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp1u_f-gYWi/)), your lil baby voter pics, and…you.

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