Lovely Purple Dachshunds: Notes on a Colour

Lecture no. 12

Dear Heart,

Amid the noise surrounding the recent Barbie film, much has been made of the appeal of the colour pink. What is implied in the film, which I have now seen, is that pink has a sense of spontaneous excess, a too-much-ness, that suggests a whole other world, one that exists separate from the real world, or at least from the mainstream world. Pin…