Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo | |
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Сара Ештон-Сірілло | |
Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (Aug–Oct 2022 as civilian) | |
Political party | Democratic (U.S.) |
Children | 1 |
Military career | |
Allegiance | Ukraine |
Service/ | Armed Forces of Ukraine |
Years of service | October 2022–present |
Rank | Junior sergeant |
Unit | Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces (headquarters) Noman Çelebicihan Battalion 209th Battalion (113th Kharkiv Defense Brigade ) |
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
Ashton-Cirillo drew national media attention in 2021 when she released records of conversations from her time working with
Starting in March 2022, Ashton-Cirillo reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine from
Early life, Syrian refugee crisis, and gender transition (1977–2019)
Ashton-Cirillo was born on 9 July 1977
In 2015, before her
Ashton-Cirillo started taking
I realized in hindsight that I hated myself and wasn't true to myself as a writer. A lot of what was going through my mind, especially in the refugee book, was, "What would these people say if I was trans? What would they do?" I felt like a liar because I wasn't living authentically.
Nevada politics
Ashton-Cirillo described herself as a
Nevada Republican Party and Proud Boys (2020–2021)
In September 2020, Ashton-Cirillo began working as an
Following the
The Clark County Republican Party subsequently banned seven people from participating in Republican county affairs, citing racist and anti-Semitic texts disclosed to them by Ashton-Cirillo. One of those banned was a Proud Boy who Ashton-Cirillo had contacted when recruiting for the Clark County rally.[10]
Blundo defense and Las Vegas City Council run (2021)
In early 2021, Ashton-Cirillo worked to coordinate the defense of
By the spring of 2021, Ashton-Cirillo decided to run for
Ashton-Cirillo withdrew from the race in October, saying she wished to focus on a political news portal she had created, Political.tips.[35]
Political.tips and Chattah texts controversy (2022)
Chattah:
Do you know that Aaron ford opposed ESA and converting schools in low income areas to charter schools
Ashton-Cirillo:Yes imaginary issues for an imaginary administration
Chattah:This guy should be hanging from a fucking crane
Ashton-Cirillo:And fictional media
Chattah:He doesn't give a fuck about advancing opportunities in underserved communities.He's a bigger piece of shit than I imaginedIt's so shamefulHe's like the leader of Hamas—making tons of money while the People in Gaza are starving
Ashton-Cirillo, "As Nevada LEO Hack Exposes 'Pretty' Eric Garner Killing; Chattah Text Calls for Ford Hanging. More"[36]
Through Political.tips, Ashton-Cirillo reported on Nevada-related aspects of
Invasion of Ukraine
Ashton-Cirillo said that she began to "hate Russia"
Journalism and activism (March–August 2022)
Ashton-Cirillo arrived in Ukraine
Ashton-Cirillo settled in Kharkiv, renting an apartment in North
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo @SarahAshtonLV Incredible news from Kharkiv!
Reports are that Chilean Russian spy @realGonzaloLira has been captured in #Kharkiv (Kharkov).
He is (allegedly) a Russian saboteur posing as a "journalist", to destroy #Ukraine️.
Congrats to Ukrainian security services.
#StandWithUkraine️
April 18, 2022[53]
In this same time period, Ashton-Cirillo developed close ties with the
Ashton-Cirillo experienced significant
Transition toward military role (August–October 2022)
Ashton-Cirillo began to reassess her place in the conflict during the summer of 2022 after witnessing a Russian artillery strike on a building across the street from her in Zolochiv.
Ashton-Cirillo was the first journalist on the scene of the
Front-line soldier and emissary to D.C. (October 2022 – May 2023)
Ashton-Cirillo was already prepared to enlist in the AFU by the time of the missile strike on Kyiv, and sought enlistment at a
Ashton-Cirillo does not speak Ukrainian, but communicates with fellow soldiers in English, Spanish, or German, or through Google Translate.[4] In an interview with Croatian TV channel N1 two and a half weeks into her enlistment, she proclaimed, as she had before,[8] that "Ukraine has already won" and called for a return to the 1991 borders.[65] She said that she had been issued an AK-74 in addition to her equipment as a medic and that she would use it to suppress enemy fire.[66] She told the Blade that she had won praise in her unit after Russian state media featured footage of her firing a machine gun and vowing to retake Crimea.[4]
In mid–December 2022 Ashton-Cirillo met with members of the
In February 2023, Ashton-Cirillo, then with the 209th Battalion of the
A recovered Ashton-Cirillo returned to Washington, D.C., in May, having been promoted to junior sergeant in early April.[73] She met with three members of the House of Representatives and aides for several others, as well as José Andrés,[73] whose World Central Kitchen she worked with in Kharkiv.[4]
TDF spokesperson and suspension (June 2023 – present)
In June, Ashton-Cirillo was assigned to work on English-language media for the Army's Territorial Defense Forces (TDF),[74] and in August she was appointed as one of the TDF's English-language spokespeople.[75] Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Maliar, cited Ashton-Cirillo's reach on Twitter of 28.3 million users over a one-month span and praised her work "debunk[ing] Russian fakes and propaganda".[75]
Ashton-Cirillo's
In September 2023, Ashton-Cirillo posted a video in which she said that "Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served".
The TDF suspended Ashton-Cirillo on 20 September pending investigation of unapproved statements.[13] They did not specify the statements in question,[81] but The Daily Beast[77] and Kyiv Post[82] speculated that the Vance controversy was the cause, while The Advocate asserted this conclusively.[76]
Impact
During her time as a war correspondent, Ashton-Cirillo was thought to have been the only transgender journalist covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine;[12] a 2023 profile by Cady Stanton in USA Today described her as "the world's first openly transgender war correspondent".[11] According to Ashton-Cirillo, many local Ukrainians do not realize that she is transgender.[20] She said that the other soldiers in her unit did know, and that "some people are completely great with it"; some have asked questions that she says come from places of "genuine curiosity".[4] She favorably contrasted her experience as a trans person in Ukraine to her experience in the United States:[20]
In the United States, people want to objectify trans folks, and the entire LGBTQ+ community, as a wedge issue. And in Ukraine? If Sarah is willing to fucking go to Russia, we don't care that she's trans because there's nobody else here. She's come on missions with us where we've been shelled. Or she kept on filming as a rocket hit behind her. That's what matters to them.
She has likewise favorably contrasted her experience as a journalist in both countries, telling Vorozhko, "I had more freedom as a reporter in Ukraine, under martial law, than I would trying to even film the police in the United States".[83]
Ashton-Cirillo's mixture of journalism and activism, a controversial practice among journalists, have made her popular among Ukrainians.
Zivo's piece about Ashton-Cirillo in the Examiner, which is often perceived as hostile to trans people, led Evan Urquhart in
Notes
- ^ a b Ashton-Cirillo began to work at the Kharkiv Media Hub in the aftermath of Maria Zakharova's comments of 21 April 2022 (Washington Blade does not clarify the exact date, nor when she stopped working there.[1] ), but coverage in the
- ^ a b c Ashton-Cirillo became Zolochiv's representative in aid negotiations at some point before 20 July 2022.[2] Her contract was renewed for a year in August.[3] She retained her position after becoming a civilian employee of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense that same month;[4] coverage in the Washington Blade and USA Today does not clarify whether she remained Zolochiv's representative after joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine in October.[5]
- ^ /səˈrɪloʊ/ sə-RIL-oh.[6] Her name is cyrillized as Сара Ештон-Сірілло [ˈsɑrɐ ˌeʃton-siˈrilo] in Ukrainian media sources,[7] although her press pass uses -Кірілло.[8]
References
Citations
- ^ Lavers 2022, referencing Zakharova 2022.
- ^ a b Smart 2022.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022k.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Lavers 2022.
- ^ Lavers 2022; Stanton 2023.
- ^ Passoth 2022.
- ^ Vorozhko 2022a; Ukrinform 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Owen 2022.
- ^ a b LGBTQ Nation.
- ^ a b c d e f g Scherer 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Stanton 2023.
- ^ a b Zivo 2022a; O'Brien 2022, 7:18.
- ^ a b AFP 2023b, citing TDF 2023.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022h; Ashton-Cirillo 2022j.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022c; Ashton-Cirillo 2022h.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2021.
- ^ a b Gentry 2021b.
- ^ a b c d e f Dentzer 2022.
- ^ a b c d Sollenberger 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Zivo 2022a.
- ^ Lavers 2022. "'Some of it had to do with being trans,' she said. 'I had been traveling with Muslims, with different groups, and they were accepting me, but I would always have in the back of my mind, would they have talked to me if they knew I was trans or a female.'"
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022g.
- ^ Zivo 2022d. "[Ashton-Cirillo] revealed that she had struggled with suicidal thoughts prior to her transition and said that, had she not transitioned, she would not be alive right now."
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022c. "Oh, and after significant surgery and almost three years of hormones and hair regrowth, the photos don't match up either."
- ^ Zivo 2022a. Lavers 2022, referencing Ashton-Cirillo 2017.
- ^ Scherer 2021; Smith 2021.
- ^ Scherer 2021; Dentzer 2022.
- ^ a b Scherer 2021; Gentry 2021a.
- ^ Appleton 2019.
- ^ Hebrock 2020.
- ^ Appleton 2021.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022c.
- ^ Dentzer 2022; Gentry 2021b.
- ^ Gentry 2021c.
- ^ Dentzer 2022; Political.tips 2021.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022a.
- ^ Smith 2022.
- ^ Golonka 2022, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2022a
- ^ Dentzer 2022.
- ^ Golonka 2022.
- ^ Shuham 2022.
- ^ Lavers 2022. "Ashton-Cirillo told the Blade that she learned about what Russia had done to them through mid-winter visits to museums. 'That led me to hate Russia, because I'm reading about things that ended up being pertinent today: Filtration camps, the language issues, they were trying to erase culture, the genocide, the torture of political prisoners, everything that we're living now, the folks in the Baltics lived 80 or 90 years ago, as do the Ukrainians, but I hadn't been to Ukraine yet.'"
- ^ Lavers 2022, referencing Ashton-Cirillo 2017.
- ^ Zivo 2022a; Lavers 2022.
- ^ Zivo 2022a; Beecher 2022.
- ^ Owen 2022, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2022b.
- ^ Zivo 2022a; Stanton 2023.
- ^ Passoth 2022, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2022d.
- ^ Lavers 2022, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2022f.
- ^ Owen 2022, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2022i.
- ^ Zivo 2022a, citing @SarahAshtonLV and Trans at the Front.
- ^ Derbyshire & Shevchenko 2022.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2022e.
- ^ Young 2022, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2022e and Zakharova 2022.
- ^ Media Center Ukraine 2022.
- ^ Beedle 2022; Bradbury 2022.
- ^ Wingerter 2023.
- ^ a b Zivo 2022b.
- ^ Vorozhko 2022a. O'Brien 2022, 0:46, excerpting audio from Ashton-Cirillo 2022l.
- ^ a b c Vorozhko 2022a.
- ^ Owen 2022, quoting Ashton-Cirillo 2022m.
- ^ Raczkiewycz 2022, p. 3.
- ^ a b AFP 2023a.
- ^ Ladisic 2022, 3:01; Muzhdabaev 2022.
- ^ Ladisic 2022, 2:38.
- ^ Ladisic 2022, 6:13.
- ^ CBS 2023, Lavers 2023a, and Lavers 2023b do not say precisely where Ashton-Cirillo was fighting at the time. Segura 2023 says she was near the Battle of Bakhmut.
- ^ CBS 2023, 0:51; Lavers 2023a; Lavers 2023b.
- ^ CBS 2023, 1:08.
- ^ Lavers 2023a, quoting Ashton-Cirillo 2023a.
- ^ Ukrinform 2023; Ashton-Cirillo 2023b.
- ^ a b c d e Segura 2023.
- ^ a b Lavers 2023b.
- ^ Ashton-Cirillo 2023c.
- ^ a b Lavers 2023c; Kyiv Post 2023a; Kyiv Post 2023b.
- ^ a b Ring 2023.
- ^ a b Quinn 2023.
- ^ Ring 2023; Kyiv Post 2023c.
- ^ a b Jackson 2023.
- ^ Maskell 2023, citing Ashton-Cirillo 2023d.
- ^ AFP 2023b; Quinn 2023.
- ^ Kyiv Post 2023c.
- ^ Vorozhko 2022b, 2:16.
- ^ a b c Zivo 2022d.
- ^ Zivo 2022d: "[Ashton-Cirillo's] work in Ukraine has been groundbreaking and is demolishing not only stereotypes about trans people, but about Ukrainians, too. Over the past decade, Ukraine has radically transformed itself in pursuit of European integration. While prejudice still exists, it's a shadow of what it once was. LGBTQ people and racial minorities I've interviewed have consistently noted that today's Ukraine is nothing like the Ukraine of the early 2010s. Most foreigners are unaware of this cultural transformation, but Ashton-Cirillo is fixing that" [link in original]. Zivo 2022e
- ^ Urquhart 2022.
- ^ Zivo 2022c.
- ^ a b Crawford 2023, 23:51.
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External links
- Sarah Ashton-Cirillo on the Muck Rack journalist listing site
- Sarah Ashton-Cirillo on X
- Sarah Ashton-Cirillo's articles for LGBTQ Nation