Writing — Jasper Peach

My Body is my Home

A joyful celebration of bodies of all shapes and kinds, with a gently inclusive message about being at home in your own skin.

Published 2026

An Allen & Unwin Book.

This is my body. It's my home.
I will live here my whole life long.
Every part of me belongs.

This heartwarming picture book is an empowering exploration of the ways we belong in our bodies. With vibrant illustrations and rhythmic language, My Body is My Home fosters confidence and self-love for young readers.

This book is perfect for:
- Reading aloud to toddlers and preschoolers
- Promoting healthy body image
- Introducing concepts of body neutrality, consent and bodily autonomy

You can purchase My Body is My Home at all good bookstores and online here.

Artist and designer Beci Orpin has some very cool garments, zines and tote bags for sale here.

If you would like a personalised signed copy of My Body is my Home, please contact me direct.

You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent

Advice and Encouragement for Rainbow Families of All Kinds

Published 2023

A Hardie Grant Book.

You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent, Jasper Peach provides a practical and emotional guide for LGBTIQA+ families around the arrival of a new baby.

Becoming a parent is already a challenging time, even more so if you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream parenting resources, culture or even language. But alphabet soup families are also in the unique position of being able to intentionally build their own family structure and create an environment of huge love and belonging for their children. This little book holds the reader’s hand through the journeys of both birth and non-birth parents, with advice on everything from to dealing with other’s definitions of your family, to finding the right medical care and communities, and of course making sure that you take a lot of naps before the baby is born.

Beautifully illustrated by Quince Frances, You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent is unlike any other book on the market in its inclusive and celebratory approach to queer parenting, and there is something for everyone to learn from the values and experiences of rainbow families. Full of warmth and personality, this is the perfect book for new or expecting parents of all descriptions.

You can purchase You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent at all good bookstores and at Readings online here. If it’s not at your library, you can request them to order a copy for your local community.

Artist and illustrator Quince Frances has some prints of the original illustrations available to purchase at one of our favourite shops Corner Store Merchants.

If you would like a personalised signed copy of You’ll Be a Wonderful Parent for yourself or as a gift for a loved one, please contact me direct.

We’ve Got This

Stories By Disabled Parents

The first major anthology by parents with disabilities - edited by Eliza Hull OAM

A Black Inc Book, now published by Scribe in the UK.

How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night?

In We’ve Got This, twenty-five parents who identify as Deaf, disabled or chronically ill discuss the highs and lows of their parenting journeys and reveal that the greatest obstacles lie in other people’s attitudes. The result is a moving, revelatory and empowering anthology. As Rebekah Taussig writes, ‘Parenthood can tangle with grief and loss. Disability can include joy and abundance. And goddammit – disabled parents exist.’

You can purchase We’ve Got This at all good bookstores and at Readings online here. If it’s not at your library, you can request them to order a copy for your local community.

There is now a new version available in the UK here.

Out-Side

Queer Words and Art from Regional Victoria - Edited by Michael Earp

Published by Q-Lit: Queer Victorian Festival of Words

There’s a lot that can be found outside…

Myths emerge from the wood; rainbow parents and grandparents reflect on full lives; daughters spin yarns about black eyes; dragons fight beside their human companions. Poets muse on the mysteries of love and transformation. A three-headed cat stands as proud as Cerberus, while the dove inside a man longs to fly. We dream up ways to connect with our heritage while creating a future with our own hands, and check into motels on memory lane. We’re tempted by devils; contemplate our reflections; sink our teeth into realities often ignored and revel in the minutiae of life.

Sometimes, we just have to spend time outside and the whole world opens up to us.

Edited by Michael Earp (Everything Under the Moon and Kindred), this collection of art and writing showcases the spectacular breadth of talent from emerging and established artists and writers across regional Victoria.

You can purchase Out-Side at all good bookstores and at Q Lit online here. If it’s not at your library, you can request them to order a copy for your local community.

Raging Grace

Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability

Published by Puncher & Wattmann, edited by Andy Jackson, Esther Ottaway and Kerri Shying

When your body-mind is in upheaval, or is deemed troublesome, how do you find a way forward? In the shadow of an ecological and social crisis, whose voices do we need to pay attention to? The poems, essays and artworks in this groundbreaking anthology answer both these questions at the same time. Written collaboratively and in conversation, they harness rage and grace to speak back to unhealthy, alienating systems and experiences. Both prophetic and celebratory, Raging Grace affirms disability and neurodivergence as unique sources of truth telling, and collaboration as a radical model for collective health.

Andy Jackson’s essay on The Coversation

Erin Scudder’s review on Sydney’s Review of Books

You can purchase Raging Grace at all good bookstores and at Readings online. If it’s not at your library, you can request them to order a copy for your local community.

Archer

16th Edition - Disabilities

Guest Co-Editor

Featuring articles that explore the impact of COVID-19 on people with disabilities, experiences of medical racism, trauma recovery through sex work and kink, and the future of disability justice.

Archer Magazine won the prestigious Media Award for the #Disabilities issue at the 2022 Mental Health Services Awards of Australia and New Zealand.