“You don’t need to look so serious.”

That’s the message a reader left me after seeing my photo running beside an editorial a few weeks back. Maybe people know better than to ask me to smile. (For what purpose? The male gaze, the most common resource in the universe?)

Jules Rogers is editor of the Portland Tribune.

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