That’s something to cheer about.
It’s four women more than started the year in 2019, and they’re from both parties.
But don’t sing women’s liberation yet.
Not so great either.
Your high school math teacher would give this election a failing grade.
Your social studies teacher might not.
It’s that they represent an incredibly rich spectrum of different socioeconomic, political, and sexual identities.
We’re all part of this country" (viaHuffPost).
Wilson-Antoni is the first Muslim ever to be elected to Delaware’s legislature.
In Georgia, Episcopal priest, Kim Jackson, will become the first openly LGBTQ+ member of its senate.
Down the coast in Florida, Michelle Rayner-Goolsby will become the first LGBTQ+ person in its legislature.
Stephanie Byers, meanwhile, will soon be the first openly transgender person in Kansas' senate.
“I’m also a member of the Chickasaw Nation.
I ride a motorcycle.
I’m a musician.
I have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in education.
These are all just things that make a part of who I am.
It’s not what totally defines me” (viaAdvocate).
No matter how you shook it, New Mexico would probably still have sent three women to the House.
PerPeople,every single major party candidate in New Mexico’s House race was a woman.
Missourian Cori Bush, meanwhile, will represent her state in Congress.
On the opposite end of the country, representing Washington, Marilyn Strickland will become Congress’s first Korean-American.
She’ll also become the first African American member of Congress from the Pacific Northwest, reportsABC News.
