Hey! Emily here. I’m a student in NYC, from New Mexico. As Daisy already mentioned in her introduction, I blog with her at Our Descent Into Madness. I used to write/rant about politics fairly regularly, but it’s been a while. Long enough that much of my worldview and general approach has changed since then (at least I hope it’s matured), and continues to do so. I’m curious myself to see how another go at political blogging and analysis reflects this.

In school I’m studying a wide array of subjects before settling into a major next semester; presumably a ‘Social Inquiry’ major. This area of study may encompass many aspects of politics, cultural studies, sociology and…

In other words, I go to a school that allows for much flexibility here. So far, I’m mostly interested in studying the ways in which people organize to implement transformative, structural change and the forces which impede their success; how domination works on a large scale, and how it must be countered on behalf of those pursuing justice. Both in theory and in practice. Broadly speaking, of course. I spread my interest thin, as I’m sure you’ll see through my regularly scheduled Monday posting.

I’m flattered to have been invited to contribute to Revolutionary Act and am eager to see where this experience will lead.

Hello, new online community!

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Greetings! My name is Daisy, and I’m very excited to be blogging here at Revolutionary Act. Some basics facts about me: I am a nineteen-year-old college student, hailing from New Mexico, where I live with my girlfriend.

I run a small-time blog called Our Descent Into Madness, with my dear friend Emily, who will also be blogging at Revolutionary Act. There, we write mostly about art, gadgets and oddities, with a smattering of more serious stuff. Here, I plan to write experimental sorts of posts, exploring ideas that bother and fascinate me. I’m interested in learning and sharing and having conversations. Here’s a long but incomplete sort of laundry list of things I’m interested in having those conversations about (that is, what I will be writing about): sex, gender, culture, and identity, history and heritage and our relationships to both, justice and our obligation to do justice, sustainability and survival, and community, isolation, and love.

(You’ll notice a conspicuous absence there of items such as “Obama” and “McCain.” I’m a die-hard liberal, and I’ll be casting my ballot for Obama on Election Day — but, as I’ve said to my co-bloggers, I’m not especially interested in political debating and nitty gritty current events discussions, at this point. I’m somewhat disillusioned about both the US government and conventional forms of activism and change-making. I’ve also had more than one case of blogging burn-out. And I’m expecting our whole civilization to collapse fairly soon anyway. These things color my relationship to politics, especially politics as they play out in online discussions. Anyway, I’m hoping I won’t be too much of an outlier amongst the important work my co-bloggers will be doing.)

I’ve done some writing at Our Descent of the variety I’d like to do here, most notably a four-part series about sex some months ago, which I invite you to take a glance at. Here is part one (the other three parts are pinged in the comments there).

That’s all. Expect proper posts from me on Wednesdays from here on out.

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Welcome to Revolutionary Act, newly launched on September 24, 2008.  Check out our Writers and browse around the site.  Comments and discussions welcome and encouraged!

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