Rep. Sharice Davids: The First LGBTQ+ Native American in Congress

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Rep. Sharice Davids talks about advocating for her LGBTQ+ and Native American communities in Congress, the viability of the Equality Act, and her new children's book, Sharice's Big Voice. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. To join our newsletter, go to lgbtqpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Representative Sharise Davids is often celebrated as one of the first Native American women in Congress.
0:10.5	And that's because it's true, right? She is. She was elected in 2018, and along with Deb Holland,
0:17.0	who is now Secretary Holland, they became the first two Native American women ever elected
0:22.8	to Congress. And I want to acknowledge and celebrate that, but at the same time, I think it's
0:29.0	deeply clarifying and sobering that this happened only just a few years ago. It's progress,
0:36.4	definitely, but it's bittersweet, I think.
0:39.6	So today, Representative Davids is here to talk about how she got to this place,
0:44.1	how even it surprises her sometimes,
0:46.6	in what her experience has been like as an out member of the House of Representatives.
0:51.6	At this moment, she's one of just nine.
0:55.7	Representative Davids also tells her story in a new children's book. That is called Cherise's Big Voice, and it's out now.
1:01.3	So without further ado, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and from The Advocate magazine in partnership
1:05.9	with Glad, this is LGBTQ and A.
1:18.2	Thank you. This is LGBTQ and A. So in your children's book called Sharis' Big Voice, in it you write that when you think about winning your first election, one of the things you think about is how amazing it is that you
1:27.6	won, but also that you even tried to win. Can you talk about that second part, the fact that
1:33.0	you even tried to win? Like, why that's so amazing to you? I feel like I have a life experience
1:37.2	that's not necessarily unique, being raised by a single parent. You know, working while I was in
1:42.4	school, there are quite a few of my experiences that I feel like are just not uncommon experiences, but they certainly, at least growing up,
1:50.0	probably shaped what I imagined I would be doing as an adult or what the scope of opportunities
1:56.6	or possibilities there were. It just didn't ever cross my mind that I might one day be running for
2:01.5	Congress. I mean, you mentioned your education. I have a question about that, actually. You went to
2:06.1	Cornell for law school, but before that you attended Haskell Indian Nations University,
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