README.txt: A Memoir

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a b c Fritze, John (February 16, 2018). "Is Chelsea Manning's Senate campaign for real? 'I'm willing to put myself out there' ". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on April 5, 2019 . Retrieved February 16, 2018. For the U.S. government trying to determine whether Assange encouraged Manning, see Savage, Charlie. "U.S. Tries to Build Case for Conspiracy by WikiLeaks", The New York Times, December 15, 2010. When Manning was growing up in Crescent, a town of some 1,400 north of Oklahoma City, she struggled to pinpoint a reason she felt so awkward. “I knew that I was different,” she says. “I gravitated more toward playing house, but the teachers were always pushing me toward playing the more competitive games with the boys.” She recalls, “I spent so much time wondering, What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I fit in?” Sometimes she felt left behind; at other times, she leaped out in front. Once, she and a group of other kids were allowed to take a field trip to Frontier City, an amusement park known for its loopy, soaring Silver Bullet roller coaster. Other students were petrified. Manning couldn’t wait to get on and boarded the ride all alone: “I’m a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it’s safe to say.” a b "Judge accepts Manning's guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case". CBS News. February 28, 2013. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 . Retrieved February 28, 2013. Tate, Julie (August 14, 2013). "Manning apologizes, says he 'hurt the United States' ". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 16, 2017.

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By then, she hopes to be acclimated to a new life. For the moment, certain habits of this decade strike her as weird. Our phone fixation, for example. “We’re sitting in the same room as each other but looking at our phones constantly,” she says. “Before I was in prison, I was one of the only people on social media. I was a novelty. Now everybody’s on social media all the time!” It’s too much. “I think that’s where a lot of this miscommunication, polarization, friction, and chaos is coming from.”For the section and revision of the Wikipedia article Manning linked to, see "U.S. Intelligence report on Wikileaks", Wikipedia, May 21, 2010. I wasn’t thinking about what might happen to me. I was just trying to survive every day. Compartmentalizing is something I was good at. I was grappling with my gender identity and working inside an army that didn’t officially allow people like me to serve openly. In April 2015, Amnesty International posted online a letter from Manning in which she wrote: "I am now preparing for my court-martial appeal before the first appeals court. The appeal team, with my attorneys Nancy Hollander and Vince Ward, are hoping to file our brief before the court in the next six months. We have already had success in getting the court to respect my gender identity by using feminine pronouns in the court filings (she, her, etc.)." [206] Her early Oklahoma years helps explain why she joined up at least. “My childhood,” she writes, “now feels like it was lived under rigid cis gender sensibilities.” Almost comically so. Dad banned his son from watching his favourite movie, The Little Mermaid, and filled his room with military toys. Little Bradley put sister Casey’s hand-me-down Barbies in GI Joe uniforms and sent them on missions. On September 13, 2017, Manning was named a visiting fellow at Harvard University. Bill Delahunt, acting director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, said: "Broadening the range and depth of opportunity for students to hear from and engage with experts, leaders and policy-shapers is a cornerstone of the Institute of Politics. We welcome the breadth of thought-provoking viewpoints on race, gender, politics and the media." [336] Harvard said Manning would visit for a limited number of events meant to spark campus discussion, [337] and in particular would engage students in discourse on "issues of LGBTQ identity in the military". [338] According to online newspaper PinkNews, this marked "the only LGBT-related fellowship in Harvard history". [339]

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For basic training and the video interview with the soldier, see Smith, Teresa et al. "The madness of Bradley Manning?", The Guardian, May 27, 2011; soldier's interview begins 07:10 mins.

Icelandic and Swedish Pirate Party MPs nominated Manning and fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2013, Roots Action launched a petition nominating Manning for the prize that received more than 100,000 supporting signatures. [268] In February 2015, Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of Guardian US, announced that Manning had joined The Guardian as a contributing opinion writer on war, gender, and freedom of information. [319] In 2014, The Guardian had published two op-eds by Manning: "How to make Isis fall on its own sword" (September 16) [320] and, "I am a transgender woman and the government is denying my civil rights" (December 8). [321] Manning's debut under the new arrangement, "The CIA's torturers and the leaders who approved their actions must face the law," appeared on March 9, 2015. [322]

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On January 26, 2017, in her first column for The Guardian since the commutation, Manning lamented that President Obama's political opponents consistently refused to compromise, resulting in "very few permanent accomplishments" during his time in office. As The Guardian summarized it, she saw Obama's legacy as "a warning against not being bold enough". [215] In response, President Donald Trump tweeted that Manning was an "ungrateful traitor" and should "never have been released". [216] Manning in a photo published a day after her releaseI have these values that I can connect with: responsibility, compassion,” she goes on. “Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally.” It’s the lesson, she says, that she wishes she learned earlier. “Unconditional love,” she says. “It is OK to be who I am.” That’s the part of my life I replay the most: whether or not, living in Maryland and seeing a therapist, I could have finally been able to say, ‘This is who I am; this is what I want to do.’ It was the first time in my life when I really considered transitioning. But I got scared,” she tells me. “I really regret the fact that I didn’t know or realize I already had the love I needed, especially from my aunt and sister—just to seek support.”