When You Are Blacklisted Because of A (Necessary) Act of Defiance

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Let me set up a 59-minute videotaped ChangeMakers in Conversation video that went into some strange directions.

Do you know that feeling when you look around and realize everyone’s nodding in agreement, except you? That awkward moment when you speak up, disrupt the calm, and then... bam, you're blacklisted. Now, let’s be clear. This isn’t the “I didn’t get invited to Tania’s bridal shower” kind of blacklisting. This is the “professional death sentence because you called out the emperor's new clothes" type of thing.

So what happens when you’re on the blacklist?

You end up on the fringes, but the fringes are a hell of a lot more interesting…