field notes: Welcome to "Messy Dialectic" and "field notes"
A belated introduction, but that's okay!
Welcome to field notes, my casual blogging platform within my Substack Messy Dialectic. If you are looking for refined essays and discourse, check here for the latest posts. If you love rambling, brain dumps, and chit-chats about life experiences, then continue reading on.
Hi everyone! How are you doing? Today’s field notes is a shorter post that I’ll be using to speak about my intentions for this space that I’ve created on Substack. I think it’s important to state my intentions publicly because it’ll also help to keep me accountable as I continue to live and deal with the motions of everyday life. Being consistent and showing up here is very important to me, so I really want to do my best with it :).
If you were here prior to this post, then you’ll recognize that I’ve changed the name of this page from with love, tiara to Messy Dialectic. Honestly, I had no intention of keeping with love, tiara, but I wanted a name that I could use as a placeholder while I was figuring out the actual name that I wanted for my Substack, so I just copied the name I’m using on Instagram.
My intention for Messy Dialectic is to show up every other Sunday at 10:15 CST with either standard essays (Messy Dialectic) or rambles (field notes). The essays are going to touch on culture and society both on and offline, and the rambles are just chill posts about my life or even essay topics that I’d rather speak on in a more casual manner.
Every now and then, I’d love to do an audio-based episode. So we’ll see how we do with that in time :).
I started this Substack to rebuild my writing skills, as I had lost them quite a bit post-grad, and also to create a space to do what I love to do, which is writing academic-ish essays on topics that I’d have to research and carefully evaluate. I’ve been kinda shocked how enjoyable it has been to write essays again, and I wish that I had gotten back into it years ago when I had begun to crave essay writing again.
Overall, I hope to continue to cultivate this space into a place where multiple points of a topic can be looked at and evaluated to create a sense of clarity about different societal issues, events, and phenomena. It has been really fulfilling and enjoyable to spend my time writing these essays and researching topics that I genuinely care about, and I hope that you all enjoy reading them too :).
P.S. If there are any topics that you’d love for me to cover, please let me know! I will add it to my growing backlog of ideas.