Introduction / Liz Byrski and Rachel Robertson -- The things I cannot say / Natasha Lester -- Maiden aunts / Liz Byrski -- Blue meat and purple language / Toni Jordan -- Into the whipstick / Anne Manne -- Velvet / Rachel Robertson -- 'Is a magnificent story' : interviews with pigeon fanciers / Sarah Drummond -- Do you see what I see? / Tracy Farr -- Mary / Lucy Dougan -- The trouble with purple / Annamaria Weldon -- The red and the blue : confessions of an (unlikely) Dockers fan / Deboarah Hunn -- The two loves / Lily Chan -- Purple impressions / Rosemary Stevens -- Bruised / Jacqueline Wright -- My descent into purple / Hanifa Deen -- Towards metamorphosis / Amanda Curtin.