When I was afraid, you taught me how to keep going. When I was lost, you showed me the way

In Chelsea Manning’s first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama’s legacy is a warning against not being bold enough

I spent about nine months in an isolated cell behind a one-way mirror. It was cruel, degrading and inhumane

The National Insider Threat Task Force subjects officials to surveillance and fear, and uses me as an example. Those with legitimate concerns should be empowered to speak out

Queer and transgender people globally rely on encryption to lead our private lives without legal consequences. Efforts to eliminate it are utterly chilling

I had never spent any real time with another transgender woman before I was incarcerated. At the loneliest time in my life, her friendship meant everything

The chasm between me and the outside world feels like it’s getting wider and wider, and all I can do is let it happen

Some want to exploit the Paris attacks in order to justify seizures of power to meet their own political ends. We should not let that happen

Intelligence agencies will always seek to collect more data. But the courts that oversee them must be as concerned about due process as they are with secrets

Lifting the ban on trans service members would be a hollow victory if more anti-discrimination measures are not put in place

Who in our community will be left to push for full equality for all transgender and queer people, now that this one fight has been won?

It can be difficult, sometimes, to make sense of all the things that have happened to me in the last five years

The American public needs more access to what the government is doing in its name. That requires increasing freedom of information and transparency

Even the most junior level intelligence officers know that torture is both unethical and illegal. So why didn’t our political leaders?

Chelsea E Manning: We are told, by the legal system and the military, that we don’t belong. It’s time for trans people like me to tell the world something different: we exist

Chelsea E Manning: Degrade and destroy? The west should try to disrupt the canny militants into self-destruction, because bombs will only backfire