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Poet and Former Military Analyst
About Chelsea Manning
In 2010, while stationed in Iraq as an intelligence analyst, this writer copied and disclosed over 700,000 classified military and diplomatic documents, not to harm national security, but to expose systemic dehumanization: the Collateral Murder video showing civilian deaths in Baghdad, the unredacted Guantanamo detainee assessments revealing torture’s bureaucratic footprint, and logs documenting hundreds of uninvestigated Iraqi civilian casualties. After seven years in military prison, much of it in solitary confinement, she emerged not with bitterness, but with a disciplined lyricism forged in silence: her poetry collections like 'README.txt' interweave code syntax, redaction marks, and elegy; her essays dissect how language itself is weaponized in war rooms and courtrooms alike. Her voice resists spectacle, favoring precision over polemic, whether testifying before Congress on surveillance ethics or reading at a Brooklyn bookstore where each line lands like a subpoena signed in ink and empathy.
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- “How did redacting your own leaked documents shape your later poetry?”
- “What do you see as the poetic function of a FOIA request?”
- “Can transparency ever be non-violent when extracted from power?”
- “How does your experience with military linguistics inform your metaphors?”