Abstract
This article attempts to analyze the contest diaries written by LGBTQ+ individuals published in the collection <i>Cała siła, jaką czerpię na życie</i> [All the Strength I Muster to Live] (2022) from the perspective of life-writing strategies, the production of auto/biographical subjectivity, and the specific positioning of the authors in relation to the poetics of the contest monograph. The published testimonies are set in the scheme of both literary and sociological traditions of Polish diary writing from the 1930s. The text also draws on the project of anxious reading by Astrid Rash, through which, in the process of critical reading, it becomes necessary to activate individual areas of “selective empathy” towards the stories about experiences of violence and marginalization contained in the diaries. Keywords: competitive diary writing, LGBTQ+, life writing, anxious reading
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