In her memoir README.txt, Chelsea Manning shares some books she read during her political awakening. She was influenced by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States; David Carter's Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution; Susan Stryker's Transgender History; Rob Epstein's documentary The Times of Harvey Milk; and she learned about Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and the Compton's Cafeteria uprising. She read Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America. Then there was trans history—Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen, Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, and issues of Transgender Studies Quarterly.
I wrote more about Chelsea Manning's memoir. See: "A Queer Life Before WikiLeaks". It's a 6-minute read on Medium.
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