This Is What Stacey Abrams Wants For Her Birthday

Stacey Abrams' birthday isn't until December, but if you want to give her a present, she recently revealed that her idea of a perfect gift isn't flowers or cards but for people to carry on her legacy.

The topic of what to give Abrams for her birthday is one that made the rounds on social media in recent months, following President Joe Biden's election victory. Abrams, whose hard work in outreach and registering voters helped turn the state blue, was instrumental in the Democratic win (via The Cut). As noted by The Guardian, Abrams' work also helped Georgia Democratic Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win the state's runoff election in January, leading author and vlogger Hank Green to tweet "What does Stacey Abrams want for her birthday? Let's get it for her."

The tweet went viral, with well-wishers proposing to give her everything from "a throw pillow" to "a starship."

So what does Abrams want? "I want to be defending voting rights," Abrams, whose birthday is on December 9, told Marie Claire in a recent interview. "I want us to effectively leverage the census and redistricting, and I want us to serve the disproportionately harmed communities. I want us to rebuild the public infrastructure of the South, using COVID not as an excuse for what was broken but as a template for what we need to do right."

Many thought that the perfect gift for Abrams would be being voted as the next governor of Georgia, an office that Abrams ran for but lost in the past. The possibility of her winning if she runs again seems likely, but don't expect a presidential bid in the future. As Abrams, who previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives, told Marie Claire, she wants to continue her outreach in Georgia and isn't looking to leave the state.

"If you can do it [in Georgia], you can prove that it is possible in enclaves that have given up," she said. "If you can do this stuff in the Deep South, if you can elect a Black Southern preacher and a Jewish son of an immigrant to the U.S. Senate while Donald Trump sits in the White House, then, by God, everything else is possible."