Politics almost broke them. Instead, they found power in community.

Politics almost broke them. Instead, they found power in community.

Mo Turner doesn’t often think about their time in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.  In that building, they were Mauree — the first out nonbinary state legislator in United States history; the first Muslim elected in Oklahoma; a Black, queer, gender non-conforming lawmaker in one of the most conservative states in the country. Elected at 27 to represent House District 88, which includes much of Oklahoma City, they stepped into a political i…