Sadie Lou

The Doctor has found Easter. On April 23, 2011 the new season of Doctor Who premiered on BBC America, delighting fans with the latest adventures of their favorite time traveling alien whom they last saw in the Christmas Special aptly titled “A Christmas Carol.”

The series Doctor Who is about an alien from the planet Gallifry who travels through time and space in a little blue police box called a TARDIS. Along the way he picks up and recruits different humans who accompany him on his journey.

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Enoch: My high school was not a queer bubble. It was a physically safe place to be queer, but beyond that you were pretty much alone aside from the weekly Gay/Straight Alliance meetings. Our G/SA membership worked like a pyramid—the higher your grade level, the fewer people in your grade who attended. My last year there were two seniors and we were the co-presidents. I had two close queer friends who both graduated in my junior year, leaving me to try to pick up the pieces with old friends who were completely unable to make room in their group interactions for my approach to my identity.

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My initial thought was that I was missing some pop-culture reference; some joke on Tosh.0 that I wasn’t getting because I instinctually don’t like Daniel Tosh for some reason I can’t explain. There’s was no way, I thought, that Osama Bin Laden could be dead. It’s been almost a decade since we started that rabbit hunt. We’re onto new things now: oil spills, a new war, a different country to blame for gas prices, Japanese radiation, a new new war, the possibility that the planet is trying to kill us. Osama Bin Laden wouldn’t even be on the outerskirts of Entertainment Weekly’s back page bullseye. Finding him had gone from the American Government’s number one priority to a lazy stand-up comedian’s punchline. I figured, as I assume most had, that the case had gone cold. But I see now why it’s said that revenge should be served at the same temperature.

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Cohen: For me, straps have never really called me to question the queerness of my sex – they have always been about pleasuring my partner and myself in a way that isn’t achievable with only hands and mouths. I only recently came across the idea that straps could somehow un-queer your sex, so most of the feelings I have towards straps come from a place of being intimidated by what it says about a relationship when partners buy pleasure items together, instead of that.

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Ms. Margulies,

First and foremost, let me just say that I’m a huge fan. I grew up watching my mother watch ER. I’ve seen Staten Island twice. I’m sure The Good Wife is swell. And while I was originally irked upon hearing that you were going to be the commencement speaker for the SLC class of 2010, I was very much impressed with how great your hair looked on the day. Sure, the class of 09’ had Rahm Emanuel, but who really cares about politics these days? And 2011 is having a send off from Arianna Huffington, but did she make out with George Clooney? I don’t think so.

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It must be that season again. The journalistic world is covering all things collegiate, which means that adolescents around the country are deciding where they want to embark on the newest chapter of their life. Once again, Sarah Lawrence is being called out for having the highest tuition in the country. President Karen Lawrence wrote an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed defending the admittedly high price for a Bachelor’s degree. Her defense was not well met by journalists, and Uri Friedman from The Atlantic Wire presented counter-arguments to Lawrence’s defense. Let me now present my counter-defenses for the school.

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Enoch: I gave up on strap-ons before I had ever used one. I thought that too many people in the queer female community had abandoned the “pure” art of hand sex—and to a lesser extent oral sex—in favor of toys and other penis substitutes. I was resolute that we should be making use of what we had and not playing into the stereotype that real sex involved a penis penetrating a vagina.

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One of the things I romanticize the most about Sarah Lawrence, that in reality probably isn’t even true, is the fact that I rarely felt uncomfortable around other guys for not utilizing my gender role to its fullest date-rape potential. Why would I? With all the gender bending, pronoun shifting, and ceremonial lesbian head shavings that go on at SLC, my refusal to watch a Vin Diesel movie was hardly any cause for alarm at cross-dress cabarets.

But now in Los Angeles, I find myself constantly placed in the “other” box when trying to socialize with people.

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Cohen: I feel like I need to start this by saying that straps and people with straps currently, and are forever invited to, occupy a huge part of my life. (Seriously, if you are good with a strap, call me.) That being said, I do not own one nor have I ever personally used one. I have had many partners who have used them with me, though; and I have experienced them in various ways.

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