Alice Walker's novel The Colour Purple was a notable novel for both its content and the quality of its prose. It affected gay and straight women all over the world; now filmmaker Pratibha Parmar is working on a documentary about Alice Walker herself. On this blog post on After Ellen, the poster writes "The relationship between Celie and Shug Avery was something I couldn't get out of my head, less because of the sexual component than the fact that the intimacy between the two women was deep and life-changing. Sexuality was an expression of caring, not an end in itself. The relationship felt familiar. And I know that walking through Celie's experience of considering her own desires and needs for the first time in her life was an impetus for doing it myself. Although a few years passed before I acknowledged my sexual orientation, The Color Purple made me unable to "piss off God" by continuing to ignore the colour purple in my life". You can read the rest of the post here.