No Heroes No Monsters focuses on the dramatic struggle of Anna Ardin the WikiLeaks activist
who in 2010 came forward to report sexual abuse by Julian Assange. This is her testimony to a
legal trial that was replaced by an Internet tribunal. A tribunal where women's rights are all
too often both neglected and weaponized. A tribunal that every day of the year chooses a new
woman to be the most hated. The book goes beyond the headlines - the black and white pictures
of heroes or monsters - and emphasizes the need to acknowledge the shades of gray. In the book
Ardin navigates through her personal life the sexual assault charges the media frenzy and the
extensive hatred that followed from accusing a popular man as well as through the unfair
accusations of Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks. Ardin's story is a call for justice for
everyone abused holding even important people accountable. It's a powerful compilation of the
feminist lessons Ardin learned from living for over a decade in the shadow of the "hero"
myth.
