I love this piece and the number of angles you took in looking at author photos. I also wrote a book about my sex life and laughed when you said you didn’t regret your book YET but the comments about how brave you are have given you pause. I felt the same way. I had a friend, a white male photographer whose son is best friends with my daughter, take my pics. I told him I wanted to look like myself. For me, that meant smiling. I didn’t realize how lucky I was that my publisher let me decide what I wanted and didn’t push me in any particular direction. Because of that, I gave the subject of author photos very little thought - thus I really appreciate the many important issues you’ve raised here, and I suspect I will be looking at author photos a bit differently from now on. Good luck with your book - I just downloaded the audio to listen to!