Sharice Davids

October 29, 2018

This #matriarchmonday we celebrate Kansas Congressional Candidate Sharice Davids-Ho-Chunk Nation, the attorney and former professional mixed martial arts fighter who won the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Kansas on Tuesday, is the latest potentially history-making candidate in 2018's midterm elections.

If she defeats Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder in November, Davids would join New Mexico's Deb Haaland as part of a class that's expected to include the first Native American women ever elected to Congress.

Davids would also become the second-ever openly lesbian member of Congress, after Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin. And she would be the first openly LGBT person to represent deep-red Kansas, where pro-gay rights activists have spent years fighting bills they see as discriminatory on issues like adoption and participation in college campus groups, at the state or federal level. "The thing that we should always keep in mind is that our ability to bring others along with us, to help lift others as we climb, is not always going to present itself as this momentous action that we take," she said. "But rather it's in small everyday conversations and the small choices and encouragements that we make with each other."

Source: NY Times & www.shariceforcongress.com