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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body
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'Unflinching in the examination of a life marked by trauma and joy, all the beginnings is ultimately a book about falling in love: with writing, children, mothers, and with the self. This is how I learn about love: in the violence of the senses. In the inside. In the outside coming in.' (Publication summary)

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The Future of Housework : The Similarities and Differences Between Making Kin and Making Babies Jennifer Mae Hamilton , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , vol. 34 no. 102 2019; (p. 468-489)

'This article critiques Donna Haraway’s slogan ‘make kin not babies’ via a reading of her SF tale ‘The Camille Stories’. It does so by considering the relationship between the care labour practices involved in making both kin and babies. The article has two central operations. It is an explicitly eco-social feminist argument against the use of making kin as an uncomplicated theoretical standpoint in the environmental humanities. At the same time, it deconstructs the iconic feminist ambit to be liberated from housework. These parallel operations emerge by characterising making kin as a kind of housework, which is a deeply ironic evaluation of Haraway’s slogan. Overall the article is a response to the question: how is the work involved in making kin both the same as and different to the labour of making babies? The answer is constructed through the method of literary close reading, paying attention to genre and plot of ‘The Camille Stories’ alongside Fiona McGregor’s novel Indelible Ink [2010. Melbourne: Scribe Publications] and Quinn Eades’s all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body [2015. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing]. These comparative readings enable a reckoning with the gnarly and contradictory implications of ‘making kin’ across contemporary environmental humanities and feminisms.' (Publication abstract)

I’m Rethinking My Heroes : Australian Nonfiction and Reading Loudly Sam van Zweden , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
[Review Essay] All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body Francesca Rendle-Short , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 14 no. 4 2017; (p. 565-568)

'All the Beginnings opens with ink and fish, tattoos and peeling skin. With body. And assertion. Author and tattooist are turning a body into ‘something new, that is old, that is new’ (2). Beginnings and ends and new beginnings. The ink, the body, this text says: ‘I see you, and, I am here’ (3).' (Introduction)

Heather Taylor-Johnson of Quinn Eades, All the Beginnings Heather Taylor Johnson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 238-243)

Heather Taylor-Johnson examines Quinn Eades' all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body and analyses how physical trauma is expressed and processed by the body.

Stigmatext Jessica Gildersleeve , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 20 no. 1 2016;

— Review of All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body Quinn Eades , 2015 selected work single work poetry autobiography criticism
Review Short : Quinn Eades’s All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body Roxanne T. Bodsworth , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , April no. 53.1 2016;

— Review of All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body Quinn Eades , 2015 selected work single work poetry autobiography criticism
Stigmatext Jessica Gildersleeve , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 20 no. 1 2016;

— Review of All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body Quinn Eades , 2015 selected work single work poetry autobiography criticism
Heather Taylor-Johnson of Quinn Eades, All the Beginnings Heather Taylor Johnson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 238-243)

Heather Taylor-Johnson examines Quinn Eades' all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body and analyses how physical trauma is expressed and processed by the body.

[Review Essay] All the Beginnings : A Queer Autobiography of the Body Francesca Rendle-Short , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 14 no. 4 2017; (p. 565-568)

'All the Beginnings opens with ink and fish, tattoos and peeling skin. With body. And assertion. Author and tattooist are turning a body into ‘something new, that is old, that is new’ (2). Beginnings and ends and new beginnings. The ink, the body, this text says: ‘I see you, and, I am here’ (3).' (Introduction)

The Future of Housework : The Similarities and Differences Between Making Kin and Making Babies Jennifer Mae Hamilton , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , vol. 34 no. 102 2019; (p. 468-489)

'This article critiques Donna Haraway’s slogan ‘make kin not babies’ via a reading of her SF tale ‘The Camille Stories’. It does so by considering the relationship between the care labour practices involved in making both kin and babies. The article has two central operations. It is an explicitly eco-social feminist argument against the use of making kin as an uncomplicated theoretical standpoint in the environmental humanities. At the same time, it deconstructs the iconic feminist ambit to be liberated from housework. These parallel operations emerge by characterising making kin as a kind of housework, which is a deeply ironic evaluation of Haraway’s slogan. Overall the article is a response to the question: how is the work involved in making kin both the same as and different to the labour of making babies? The answer is constructed through the method of literary close reading, paying attention to genre and plot of ‘The Camille Stories’ alongside Fiona McGregor’s novel Indelible Ink [2010. Melbourne: Scribe Publications] and Quinn Eades’s all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body [2015. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing]. These comparative readings enable a reckoning with the gnarly and contradictory implications of ‘making kin’ across contemporary environmental humanities and feminisms.' (Publication abstract)

I’m Rethinking My Heroes : Australian Nonfiction and Reading Loudly Sam van Zweden , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
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