Lindsay Mills born February 20, is an American acrobat and blogger. Mills's father Jonathan Mills lives in Laurel, Maryland. Mills kept a blog in which she posted pictures of herself posing and performing. Mills was shocked to learn what had happened to Snowden, writing on her personal blog, "I feel alone, lost, overwhelmed, and desperate for a reprieve".
Mills became the focus of a media sensation after the global surveillance disclosures when she was identified as Snowden's girlfriend. After Snowden left Hawaii, reporters sought to question members of the Waikiki Acrobatic Troupe for insight into Mills and Snowden's relationship. Between June and , there was no public awareness in the media of any interaction between Mills and Snowden. Later, the Citizenfour documentary included a scene which showed Snowden and Mills reunited in Moscow.
Mills and Glenn Greenwald joined director Laura Poitras on stage at the 87th Academy Awards to accept the Academy Award for Citizenfour , [ 17 ] Mills took one of the three Oscar statues awarded in the ceremony. In March , Mills revived her blog and made two posts which a writer for Jezebel described as "mysterious". Edgar Hoover Building but presumably this is photo manipulation because they supposedly remain in Russia. Permanent Record , Snowden's book, features Mills's writings from her diary as part of the narrative of the surveillance disclosures.
In , it was announced that Mills was pregnant and that she and Snowden intended to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing their U. Mills has a history of being highly active in new media publishing, including social media , blogging , and video sharing. A reviewer for The New Yorker described Mills's blog as "a mixture of chatty accounts of Mills's days in Hawaii, stories of her athletic and pole-dancing feats, descriptions of fun evenings with friends, and declarations of girl power".
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