Shining dark matter in XENON1T

We point out that a nonrelativistic approximately 2 GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with visible through higher-dimensional Rayleigh operators could explain the excess of ``electron recoil'' events recently observed by XENON1T Collaboration. A DM scattering event results in few keV photon on average carries most deposited energy, while nuclear recoil energy is only subleading correction. Since detector does not discriminate between electrons and photons, such would be interpreted as electrons. Indirect constraints from annihilation are avoided for light mediators $\mathcal{O}(10\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV})$ have sizable couplings to neutrinos. One-loop induced spin-independent may soon lead confirmation signal or already excludes regions viable parameter space model, depending what exact values unknown nonperturbative matrix elements are.