Blogaround

1. Opinion: 6 Groups Fighting Human Trafficking Better Than Operation Underground Railroad (July 22) "And OUR’s highly publicized 'jump' raids may do little to help actual victims and may even harm them."

2. ‘White savior complex’: Malaysia’s LGBTQ community slams The 1975’s Matty Healy’s onstage kiss (July 25) "The 1975’s concert, which was the headline performance in Kuala Lumpur’s Good Vibes Festival, has sparked a wave of criticism and dismay from the community, who say Healy’s stunt may have done more harm than good to a vulnerable group already under threat in Malaysia’s repressive, conservative society."

3. A blog series from Laura Robinson about Operation Underground Railroad, the group behind the new movie "Sound of Freedom"- and the common misconceptions about what "human trafficking" is:

The Horrible True Story that Inspired Sound of Freedom Is Probably Our Fault, Part 1 (July 16)
The Horrible True Story that Inspired Sound of Freedom is Probably Our Fault, Part 2 (July 16)
Cabal Goggles: OUR and Sound of Freedom, Part 3 (July 19) 
Cabal Goggles Off: Sound of Freedom/OUR, Part 4 (July 23)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Trafficking: Sound of Freedom/OUR Part 5 (July 28)

4. How Hollywood Corrupts Trans Stories (July 15) 1-hour-23-minute video from Jessie Gender. This is about how the trans themes in movies like "Across the Spiderverse" and "Nimona" were very deep and complex and central to the entire plot of the movie, but most movie reviews talked about very shallow aspects, like "there's a trans flag!"

5. Main suspect in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders dies (July 11)

6. ‘The lowest I’ve ever been’: how playing Jar Jar Binks led to abuse, near death – and saving Baby Yoda (July 28, via) [content note: suicide attempt] "It tells the story of Ahmed Best, who played what was meant to be one of Star Wars’ most exciting new characters, only to end up being the first ever recipient of a torrent of online abuse that spilled over into worldwide press coverage."