Excerpts from a “Sex and the City” Revival in which Carrie is Replaced with Edward Said

I couldn't help but wonder… was every single empire, in fact, exactly like all the others?

A few weeks ago, I was cleaning up the dumpster fire that is my Google Drive when I found a piece I had submitted to McSweeney’s tied to the premiere of And Just Like That…, intended as a companion piece/response to Tom Smyth’s hilarious “Excerpts from the Sex and the City Revival in Which Samantha is Replaced with Fran Lebowitz” and something that seemed to naturally spring out of where we last left the Girls: Orientalizing all over Abu Dhabi.

McSweeney’s sent me a kind rejection and I forgot about the piece until now, at a time where social media has seemingly brought what I first saw as two disparate contingents — Edward Said and Sex and the City — closer together as more Influencers get on board with the idea of Palestinian liberation and more Book Tokers post aesthetic shots of Orientalism and The Question of Palestine.

With that said, with tonight being the season three premiere of AJLT…, and without any edits to account for the plot points that have come to pass since late 2021,…