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.

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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 — one of Teen Vogue’s picks for political podcasts, and a show you’ve gotta add to your rotation.

Jenn Taylor-Skinner, host of The Electorette

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.

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On the agenda

• More than 100 women are headed to Congress — including the first Native women, the first Muslim women, and the youngest women ever
• Florida voted to re-enfranchise 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)
• White women gotta do better
• Maxine Waters remains iconic

Plus: we fucking love all your “I Voted” sticker selfies (here’s Sara’s!), your lil baby voter pics, and…you.

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