Léeme.Txt / Readme.Txt

La extraordinaria autobiograf?a de una de las activistas y mujeres trans m?s relevantes de nuestro tiempo.



Febrero de 2010. Chelsea Manning, una analista de inteligencia militar estadounidense destinada en Irak, revela 720.000 documentos militares clasificados a trav?s de WikiLeaks. Su coraje se apodera del mundo entero al protagonizar la mayor filtraci?n de la historia. Manning fue acusada de veintid?s cargos y condenada a treinta y cinco a?os de prisi?n militar. Pero, al d?a siguiente de conocer su sentencia, declar? su identidad de g?nero como mujer y empez? otra lucha: la del derecho a la transici?n en una prisi?n de hombres. En 2017, despu?s de un largo desaf?o legal y un gran apoyo civil, el presidente Obama conmut? su pena y la dej? en libertad. Hoy Chelsea Manning es una de las mayores activistas globales por la transparencia de la informaci?n y por los derechos de las mujeres trans. L?eme.txt est? destinado a convertirse en uno de los testimonios definitivos de nuestra era digital. Es una historia impresionante de rebeli?n personal, resiliencia y supervivencia: desde la adolescencia atormentada de Manning y los motivos que la llevaron a alistarse en el ej?rcito hasta el juicio kafkiano al que fue sometida y su heroica lucha por la libertad. «Chelsea Manning es la mayor hero?na que jam?s ha existido . -Vivienne Westwood ENGLISH DESCRIPTION



An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011, she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013, she was sentenced to thirty-five years in military prison. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition, seeking hormones through the federal court system. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison. In README.txt, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. Manning details the challenges of her childhood and adolescence as a naive, computer-savvy kid, what drew her to the military, and the fierce pride she has about the work she does. This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of our digital, information-driven age.