Via Instagram @dirtymartininycLife & CultureNewsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes the mic at an NYC drag show‘You are special! You are beautiful!’ShareLink copied ✔️July 10, 2019Life & CultureNewsTextBrit Dawson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez keeps getting cooler and cooler. Since she was sworn in as the youngest ever congresswoman in US history back in January, AOC has given impassioned speeches on climate change, pushed for more drug research, and even got the meme-treatment. Now, the New York politician can add ‘drag performer’ to her list of achievements (kind of). Taking a well-earned break from, you know, attempting to save the world, last Friday (July 5), the 29-year-old headed to The McKittrick Hotel in NYC for weekly ‘cabaret extravaganza’ Bartschland Follies. At the end of the show, performer Joey Arias summoned AOC onto the stage, where she gushed to the cheering crowd: “You are special! You are beautiful! You are accepted! Let’s give a big round of applause to our artists.” In a video posted to Instagram, Arias wrote: “Alexandria O.Cortez and myself at BARTSCHLAND FOLLIES! I was gagging ! She’s amaxing (sic) ! The place went wild ! Chanting her name.!” The congresswoman also stuck around to pose for photos with fans after the show. A vocal RuPaul’s Drag Race fan, AOC has previously said it would be a dream of hers to be a guest on the series, as well as paying tribute to queen Nina West after she was eliminated from season 11 earlier this year. What an icon. Watch the video below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE‘You will not silence us’: No Kings Day protesters send a message to Trump InstagramIntroducing Instagram’s 2025 Rings winnersVanmoof8 Dazed Clubbers on the magic and joy of living in BerlinWe asked young Americans what would make them leave the USKiernan Shipka and Sam Lansky know what makes a good memeGrace Byron’s debut novel is an eerie horror set in an all-trans communeNot everyone wants to use AI – but do we still have a choice?Mary Finn’s message from the Freedom Flotilla: ‘Don’t give up’Are you in a party-gap relationship?For Jay Guapõ, every day in New York is a movieDakota Warren’s new novel is a tale of sapphic obsessionP.E Moskowitz on how capitalism is driving us all insane