Snowden: So much is said about @Wikileaks --- yet we've heard so little from the women behind it. Until now:

Women, Whistleblowing, WikiLeaks

A CONVERSATION

RENATA AVILA, SARAH HARRISON, and ANGELA RICHTER

“It’s been striking to me that, in my years of working in the world of digital activism, from WikiLeaks to a diverse range of internet groups, women are active and hold important positions, yet are seldom prominent.

This is not because women lack the assertiveness to occupy a role in the foreground, as is so often claimed with a certain paternalism. It stems, in part, from the unwillingness of mainstream media to appreciate and fairly report the role of women … How else can one explain the description in the German weekly Der Spiegel’s (to just take one prominent example) of Sarah Harrison after her return to Europe from Moscow [where she had accompanied Edward Snowden on his escape from Hong Kong] as an ‘assistant’ or ‘friend’ of Assange, instead of describing her as a brave, independent journalist?” —Angela Richter, from the Introduction

http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/women-whistleblowing-wikileaks/

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