Beyond the information dump that Chelsea Manning is known for, her new memoir “README.txt” tells the story of her upbringing in rural Oklahoma. Manning blamed herself for the turmoil in her family, all while struggling with her gender identity.
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault.She can tell the story of growing up in an increasingly violent home, where both parents struggled with alcoholism. Or the story of coming of age in rural Oklahoma, where gender roles are, as she says, as “hard and fixed as the land,” and where she knew by age four that she — assigned male at birth — wanted to wear her big sister’s clothes and makeup.
But with little time while on leave from Iraq, she says it became clear that the news media hadn’t caught up with the digital age. “I thought I was the problem. I thought I’m not doing well enough. I’m not performing well enough academically. I’m not popular enough at school. I’m not good enough at sports,” she says. “I knew I was different.”
Manning joined the United States military as an intelligence officer with a strong belief in the work the military was doing and a want to contribute. But the longer Manning served, the more missteps and cover-ups she witnessed and the more disillusioned she became. She also described the stress and the guilt she sometimes felt.
Manning says she was gutted by the death of a fellow soldier and not being able to tell joint operations she had had new information. Manning was arrested in Iraq for her massive data dump in May of 2010. The leak included military and diplomatic documents and evidence of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as U.S attempts to cover up the CIA torture program. She was transferred to a U.S. base in Kuwait where she spent a year of solitary confinement at Quantico. Punishments there included being stripped naked, subjected to sleep deprivation and having her glasses removed so she couldn’t read.
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