Meet Park Cannon, the 24-year-old black, queer woman elected to the Georgia house

After winning a runoff election on Tuesday for the Georgia State House’s District 58, Park Cannon, 24, will become one of three openly queer women serving in the state’s legislature. 

Cannon considers herself “a person who is carrying with me at all times genderqueer people, asexual people, transgender individuals,” she told the Georgia Voice in December.

“As a person who is outspoken about myself and outspoken about my truth, I hope to bring healing to people. I hope to bring excitement to our community who is marginalized and underrepresented,” Cannon said in the same report. The important job Cannon was doing before being elected.