The Internet Sad Boi Journals

Abstract

The Internet Sad Boi Journals is cumulation of a long-term project where I archived curated and then responded to my own online journal entries previously posted on LiveJournal.com from 2001 – 2003, written at ages fifteen through eighteen. The first half is comprised of these journal entries interspersed with personal essays offering further details and a contemporary perspective on the subjects raised by these entries, such as immigrant identity, toxic relationships, sexual abuse, masculinity, queer identity and isolation, and queer mourning. The second half collects poetry from my LiveJournal in conversation with my current poetry, searching out throughlines of subjects and themes to bridge my poetic voice from past to present. The Internet Sad Boi Journals finds a place between Y2K nostalgia and memoir to radically embrace my past and present self as a writer.