"I was very young when all this stuff happened, says Chelsea Manning, 37. All this stuff was leaking hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning was stationed in Iraq as an intelligence analyst and saw horrific things that she believed Americans needed to know. She was then imprisoned until 2017. Released after transitioning to a woman, she returned to prison in 2019 and wrote her memoirs."
"I've been busy for like a decade and a half, she says, with enormous irony, and now she wants to better understand how it all works: Apart from being in prison or being in the military or being a sort of activist or political figure, I don't really have like a lot of life experience outside of those things. So I've been trying to live, she explains via a video call with EL PAIS."
"Manning is in a process that began in 2023, and she hopes to share more details in a talk which she is still writing and has no title at the Mozilla Festival 2025, which will be held in Barcelona between November 7 and 9. Manning has been described as one of the biggest whistleblowers of the 21st century, and she even calls Edward Snowden Ed."
Chelsea Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010 while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq and witnessed horrific events she believed Americans needed to know. Manning was imprisoned until 2017, transitioned to a woman, returned to prison in 2019, and wrote memoirs. Manning has been busy for more than a decade and a half and now seeks to better understand civilian life beyond prison, military, and activism. A personal process that began in 2023 will be shared at the Mozilla Festival 2025 in Barcelona. Manning now works as a security consultant and advocates limiting information intake amid overwhelming social media influence.
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