If “We should all be Mirandas” was the unofficial slogan of Cynthia Nixon’s 2018 New York gubernatorial campaign, the Miranda/Cynthia fictional/real-life crossover just got very real. Nixon announced on Twitter that she’s teamed up with the original purveyors of the “We should all be Mirandas” T-shirt (and OG Miranda stans), the creators behind the @everyoutfitonsatc account on Instagram, to create a line of merch that very explicitly celebrates Sex and the City’s current 20th anniversary. “I’m a Miranda and I’m voting for Cynthia,” they say, proudly admitting that a near-entire generation of women discovered personhood (and, for better or worse, politics) in a bygone television show.
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Along with T-shirts and a tote bag, the single most sought-after item will surely be the “I’m a Miranda Governor” baseball cap, no doubt an homage to one of the most iconic looks from the show.
In the first episode of season two, Miranda is walking around the city, feeling confident—it’s an episode that also contains an iconic scene, in which an over-it Miranda asks her friends why all they talk about is men. Feeling smug in a pair of denim overalls, a giant navy puffer jacket and a navy baseball cap, she accidentally engages in a classic New York pastime: running into your ex while looking like shit. Though, at the time, she ran away, now that Miranda has been reclaimed by HBO-watching feminists everywhere, we like to think that these days she would have stopped, tipped her hat, and said, “Vote for me.”