“The world that we’re fighting for is already here. It may not be all here, it may not be the majority of what’s here, but it is undeniably here.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc photographed by @cruzcvaldez for the October issue of @gq, with styling by @dara._. Profile by @wesleylowery.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc photographed on the steps of the Capitol for October @gq by @cruzcvaldez. Styling by @dara._. Cover profile by @wesleylowery.
“This generational tension has existed among virtually every single social movement in American history, in labor, in suffrage, in civil rights, in marriage equality,” the congresswoman said. “And it is a tension between history and the present moment. It’s a tension between inside and outside. It’s a tension between what we can learn and what we don’t know. Any sort of criticism of the Democratic Party is immediately cast as helping the right or ‘You’re disrespectful’ or ‘Don’t you know everything that these people have done?’ And we do, but we are also allowed to learn from the outcomes of those victories and the unique dynamics of the present moment, to also say that we have to change tack and we can’t just do the same thing for 30 years.”
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For the October issue of @gq, a conversation with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc about masculinity, power, and politics in post-Roe America.
Photographs by @cruzcvaldez. Styling by @dara._. Profile by @wesleylowery.
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