Author mimizhuxiyuan gets candid with us ahead of the publication of their debut book, 'Be Not Afraid of Love.'
, Chinese-Australian author Mimi Zhu translates the thought-provoking, text-based work they have become known for on Instagram into a book filled with wisdom, imagination, and tips for healing. The message of the book is clear in the title itself, as Zhu weaves together memoir and reflection on a range of topics, including grief, intimacy, anxiety, PTSD, romance, and vulnerability, that all relate back to the central theme of love.
What I do post on Instagram scratches the surface of what I care about and then relates to my personal experience. And this book very directly tells my deep, personal story of survival, which is extremely nerve-wracking to write. While at the same time, as a writer, I don’t think I could write about anything else. I have to write about my experience, my survival, my life. So it’s also been extremely joyful, liberating and healing.
I think it’s really interesting how the truth feels the most free when I don’t feel surveilled. And so I found that transferring that skill into sharing was daunting at first, but I’ve really learned how to just be completely honest in what I share publicly because of the reception that I’ve gotten. I’ve realized that the posts that people resonate with the most are the most honest — the ones where I’m talking about my insecurities or my jealousies or my intrusive thoughts.
Becoming more popular on the platform actually really made me interrogate my boundaries with it at the same time. Because truthfully what I write about is about being present and living and loving and being in community. And I cannot really do that if I’m just online all the time. While I’m so grateful to be meeting the community online, a lot of the time, extending that beyond the Internet world has been really what I want to do.
For, especially as we navigate this together, quite publicly too, I think it’s important that we understand the ceremonies that we have to partake in, that we have to practice with each other in order to understand the depth of our grief and what we want to use that energy towards. A lot of the ways that I try to show up for my chosen family is just by going really deep with them, and checking in with how they really are instead of how I want them to be in my life. And never treating anyone like they're disposable, and understanding how complicated we all are as people. And, of course, they offer that so generously to me as well.
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