It was not terribly surprising this week when yet another one of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tweets went viral, this time in response to an article about House Speaker Paul Ryan. Every word Ms. Ocasio-Cortez types on social media, it seems, is ripe for scrutiny. What caught my eye, though, was not the criticism she regularly levels at conservatives, but the validation — a digital fist-bump, almost — she received from her soon-to-be fellow Democratic congresswoman. “Speak truth, sis!” proclaimed Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan, responding to her tweet. Some might say it was “Shine Theory” in action — a term coined by the feminist podcasters Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow to describe women who make a concerted effort to support one another.
Sisterhood in the Halls of Congress, and You’re Invited - NY Times
