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“Michelle Shocked is a true trailblazer who knows how to play with fire” — Rolling Stone

Have you ever met someone who has been cancelled?

No, I don’t mean extraordinary rendition to a concentration camp, like Alligator Alcatraz in Florida; or a prison-cell suicide under mysterious circumstances, like Jeffrey Epstein in New York; or illegally deported by ICE while an investor steals your home, like Blanca Cardenas in Los Angeles.

I mean what media psychologist Dr Christine Marie, in her research on the traumatic impact of being cancelled, identifies as “the hijacking of narrative identity and well-being through media humiliation, misrepresentation and victim-shaming.” It’s called criminal harassment.

And according to the Internet, I was both The World’s Greatest Homophobe™ and ... a closet lesbian. But in reality, in 2013 I was the target of a relentless, widespread defamation campaign, and this story of my 13-year struggle to survive is a fascinating tale of creative resilience that you'll be interested to hear and share with anyone you know or meet who gets caught in this spider web of private surveillance and piracy-for-profit.

I want you to hear my story; one that has been told, so far, as profitable clickbait by digital tabloid media. Just wait until you hear how my 2013 cancellation was staged by a Google engineer named Carol Chen; first, my live show was bootlegged — in clear violation of my personhood! — and then she published the illegal bootleg to her @carolcheny YouTube channel — infringing my copyrights! — to support her employer's multi-million dollar advertising campaign launching Google's new Chrome browser.

You can't make this stuff up. We admit truth is stranger than fiction. But onstage, my performance had a bold title, "Truth vs Reality." And when my epic exploit went viral, it became "The Shot Heard 'Round The World." And in this life-or-death fight for artists' rights ... "the first round's just the warning shot."