#RockStarLife: Diary of Zenobia Darling, Punk Rock Drag Superstar

Make sure to post a selfie of yourself reading this book or eBook using #RockStarLife, tagging the Rockstar Zenobia! #RockStarLife is the mantra of drag artist Zenobia Darling when life gets intense. From flying to California for the weekend or performing in front of 1000 people. To finishing his last year of performing arts college, chasing boys, exhibiting neo-expressionist paintings, and managing extreme trauma flashbacks and social anxiety, life for this lovable weirdo can be a roller coaster of extremity and something only a natural-born Rockstar can handle.

Branded an outsider in a conservative small town in northeast Maryland, life for this gender-bending punk rock superstar was not easy, to the point where Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and an Eating Disorder developed. Thinking this journal is his reality show, Zenobia writes, draws, and paints to brave what life is like living with PTSD, recovering from an eating disorder, radically accepting being chronically mentally ill, and coming to terms with internalized homophobia, all while juggling theater classes during a pandemic, researching and writing an undergraduate thesis on The Real Housewives and Vanderpump Rules, and navigating messy family relationships.

Starting in the Fall of 2019 and concluding in May 2020, #RockStarLife is part written diary/blog, part therapeutic art journal full of hauntingly colorful paintings and healing sketches, and part stand-up comedy/theatrical solo drag performance. This story is one of survival, perseverance, and grit to keep pushing forward no matter what. This is the unfiltered cringeworthy but cathartic look at what it takes to be a real Rockstar in life and push through severe mental health and financial hardships while simultaneously healing to achieve your dreams. But through it all, Zenobia rocks on because he is an authentic Rockstar, and all of this intensity is just his #RockStarLife!

TRIGGER WARNING! This true story contains diary entries dealing with suicide/suicidal ideation, self-harm, eating disorders, PTSD/trauma, homophobic bullying and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, physical and emotional abuse, and sexual assault.

Author: Derek Pentz

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Mar 04, 2021

Number of Pages: 182 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798596961232