The famed WikiLeaks whistle blower speaks at Mills College about her transgender activism, prisoners’ rights and and digital privacy.
The world knows Chelsea Manning as the troubled former army private-turned-whistleblower, who came out as transgender in 2013 and served seven years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables and army reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks.
Manning will sit down for the free and open-to-the-public event at Mills with Susan Stryker, a historian, transgender activist and the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership. The event at 7 p.m. is part of Mills Trans Studies Speaker Series, and people can attendStryker, who joined Manning in the interview with this news organization, recalled how she and colleagues made Manning their first “cover girl” when they launched their academic journal, Transgender Quarterly, in 2014.
Manning had said she hoped the release of the documents would spark “worldwide discussion, debates and reforms” about civilian casualties and other harsh realities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was soon released from prison but incarcerated again in March 2019 because she refused to testify before a grand jury in the government’s ongoing efforts to bring Assange to the United States for trial for Manning’s leaks. Manning remained in custody until March 2020.
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