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1977--performed 'The True Confessions of the Sexual Organs' nude at a University of Toronto Women's Festival

1988--obscenity charges laid by two Albertan listeners who objected to a section of The Last of the Golden Girls being read on the CBC. The charges later dismissed by Edmonton Morality Squad.

1989--Swan asks Globe and Mail critic Bill French to resign on national television after he criticized her apocalptyic ending in The Last of the Golden Girls as 'unrealistic'. Six months later he resigned.

1993--Sold out Sexual Gothic tour in New York, Chicago and Toronto, featuring actors reading writers' work.

1994--Canadian External Affairs tries to deny funds for Swan's invite to the University of Venice

1996--Canadian External Affairs denies funds for Swan's invite to the Adelaide Literary Festival. Funds raised by other means.
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