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Thu, 17 November 2022

7:00 pm - 8:15 pm GMT

Chelsea Manning – Live on Stage in London

In Conversation With Hannah MacInnes

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Join one of the world’s most famous whistle-blowers and trans women for her life story.

In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the United States Army in Iraq, disclosed classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera.

The army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorised possession and distribution of classified military documents.

The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison.

Live on stage in London and via livestream, Manning will recount how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman.

She will reveal her challenging childhood, her struggles as an adolescent, what led her to join the military, and the fierce pride she took in her work. We will learn how and why she made the decision to send classified military documents to WikiLeaks.

Don’t miss this chance to hear the definitive testament of one of the icons of the digital age.

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Chelsea Manning

Activist

Chelsea Manning is an American transparency activist, politician and former US Army intelligence analyst. She lives in Brooklyn and works as a security consultant and expert in data science and machine learning. She has written for the Guardian and New York Times and tweets @xychelsea.

Hannah MacInnes

Journalist and Broadcaster

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.

 

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