Days before the midterms, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 13th District on organizing, the keffiyeh, and why you compromise on strategy, not principle.
**Photography by Brad Ogbonna for Everything is Political
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“I’m conceited, I got a reason…”
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 13th Congressional District, told me her current playlist includes Remy Ma’s “Conceited” (rightfully so), the first three songs off Beyoncé’s Renaissance, and a lot of Donna Summer. Three Black women who know a thing or two about being excellent at what they do. Naturally, I couldn’t write this profile without putting these artists on rotation myself.
When we met at Audubon Terrace in Upper