Black gay first

Nita Lowey, who has represented the district since and announced her retirement last year. Progressive community organizer Mauree Turner won their race in House District 88 and will break barriers in Oklahoma's statehouse as the first Muslim in the Oklahoma Legislature and the first nonbinary legislator in America. I did what I could to control the pitch of my voice and I limited my expressive hand motions. I have the strength and power to help other minoritized people have a different journey and a different relationship with anger. And Bratton's point holds true. Alone at the table, I ignore the crack that word causes within. At age 18, I left Seattle and flew across the country to college in the hopes that it would be a fresh start; a place where I could not only study science, but openly express who I truly was. In fact, it contradicts the subtext of acknowledging and giving credit to the source; here it erases black queer men in favor of black women.

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