This includes a 30% discount to rainbow community access only.
Once in a Lullaby' is Mia Mala McDonald’s long-awaited book of photographic portraits and interwoven stories of Australian LGBTQIA+ families. The contributions shared by participants are reflections on the politics of family, the complex processes of having children, loss, love, and what it is to be human. The book is as much about what it means to be an Australian as it is about sexuality. There is no sensationalism here.
The project was born of a frustration felt by Mia during the 2017 Australian marriage plebiscite. She was deeply saddened to witness the negative conversations around rainbow families and their children. This project speaks directly to Mia’s identification with these families and to the overwhelming absence of such images in the mainstream Australian media.
Building upon the struggles, dedication and hard work of previous generations, this generation of LGBTQIA+ families have seen and been a part of rapid changes to federal laws impacting their rights to have children. They are the first families to be directly affected by changes to federal laws that have allowed access to IVF procedures, changes to passports and birth certificates, changes in adoption laws, support for fostering and the legal right to be married.
Crew:
Photographer: Mia Mala McDonald
The book is designed by Jack Loel
Published and distributed by M.33 Publishers.
Mia Mala McDonald: 'Once in a Lullaby: A Portrait of Australian Rainbow Families’
Designed by Jack Loel
Essay by Erik Jenson
200 x 260 mm
80pp
Section sewn hard cover
Edition: 750
RRP $60.00 (inc gst)
ISBN: 978-0-6484899-6-2