January 5, 2021

"Do I Pass?"

My poem, Do I Pass?, appears in Volume 4 of Outcast, a lgbtq+ literary magazine based in South Asia.

Outcast aims to bring about change by sharing stories, poetry, and art that start a conversation and providing a community for young people struggling with their sexuality so they will know they are never alone.

So-called journalists believe they're empowered to invade other people's lives and private property for their clickbait and sixty seconds of infotainment spotlight. They work for companies with right-wing, racist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant agendas and do not care whose lives they destroy to get their "stories."

I analyze changes in journalism since I walked away almost four decades ago and explain how reporters sticking microphones and cameras in your face invade your privacy in my latest on The Big Smoke.