Progressive U.S. House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced in an Instagram story this week that she is performing an act of “resistance” against Supreme Court decisions that she doesn’t like by getting a manicure.
“Hello, everybody. Happy Friday,” AOC announced. “And I say happy because joy too can be an act of resistance.”
“Um, I want to talk about personal acts of reclamation,” she said. “Because sometimes people will say, ‘there’s nothing I can do, I can’t do, I feel so powerless.’”
“And there is no act too small, um, that you can engage in and even today, I have a personal errand. Um, I need to redo my nails, and I’ve decided that I’m going to use my new manicure as almost like a personal act of reclamation for me and my story,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
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“So I grew up in a pretty socially conservative environment,” she continued. “A very religious environment, um, I don’t talk about it much but that’s just what it is and it was very socially conservative again like to the point where I couldn’t really even paint my nails red until I pretty much graduated and left the house because there was just a lot of discussion about how red nails, red lipstick, it just portrays a message about the kind of woman that you are.”
“Um, and I think a lot of times, that kind of woman which is ungovernable, it often gets translated to loose, is seen as bad or negative,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Um, and I think like as I’ve grown older, what it really is is power, powerful women, bold women who do what they deem is best, that’s how I’m choosing to reclaim it, and um, I kind of started stepping into that energy when I first started wearing red lipstick on the campaign trail.”
