The most visible genocide in history continues as Israel drops bomb after bomb on Palestinian families while they starve in refugee camps, schools, homes, and hospitals. The Lancet, one of the highest-impact academic journals in the world, estimates Israel has killed more than 186,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Carpet bombings, deliberate starvation campaigns, and snipering of children have compelled Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the ICJ to accuse Israel of committing genocide.
Today, Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Since 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 460 aid workers, 1,000 medical staff, and 232 journalists. And thousands of Palestinians face torture and sexual abuse in prisons where systemic assaults by soldiers are well-doucmented, just as they were decades earlier.
With $4 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Israel in March 2025 and another $8 billion approved by the Trump admin, America continues to support and perpetuate this genocide. Even at U.S.-backed food distribution sites, Israeli forces are shooting starving Palestinians waiting for aid: A UN report from June 2025 finds Israel has killed 400 people at these aid sites alone since May 27.
To further limit aid in Gaza, Israel also banned UNRWA, a UN agency, on January 30, 2025. UNRWA was created to support Palestinians who were forcibly removed from their homeland by the creation of Israel. Despite Israel’s ban, UNRWA is continuing its humanitarian work as much as possible. Please consider giving, especially in light of Trump’s desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
—Owner of Blurred Bylines
About Shari Rose
I discovered the potential of search engines through my own writing on Blurred Bylines. It’s undoubtedly an ongoing effort, but I believe that SEO can be a force for good. That’s why there are no third-party ads or paywall restrictions on these articles. As the internet has become more corporate, it’s also become less accessible to the average user. I hope Blurred Bylines is a little oasis from the revenue-first, ad-heavy environment that we experience in most other places on the internet.
SEO can make trusted information accessible to everyone
Organic search offers a fascinating look into how we understand the world, and the questions we ask search engines to understand it better. In this way, SEO can be a powerful method of getting the message out, spreading awareness, and spurring action through accessible information. That’s what Blurred Bylines strives to do.
There are no 3rd-party ads or paywalls at Blurred Bylines. A credit card is not needed to access stories here. These longform articles do not produce a cent of revenue, but that’s not their goal. The purpose of these stories is to simply exist as well-sourced, accurate information on the internet that is accessible to readers who want to learn more, no strings attached.
About
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History of Blurred Bylines
In November 2016, I was working as a journalist in Colorado when I created Blurred Bylines. My goal with this new website was to build a space for myself to write about the communities and issues I felt were overlooked by mainstream outlets. I began writing articles about the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and survivors with focuses on social justice, personal identity, democracy, and American history.
Over the past 9 years, I’ve written and published more than 125 stories at Blurred Bylines that take a deep dive on these topics and largely perform very well in search engine result pages. Those years I spent in journalism showed me how powerful unrestricted, freely available information can be, and motivated me to cover a wide range of topics impacting marginalized communities that many traditional outlets avoid for fear of upsetting their advertisers.
Today, I work as a SEO consultant at Cause Engine Marketing in New Mexico, providing search engine and answer engine services to nonprofits and businesses across the U.S.
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Stories at BB
As a journalist, I was taught about the power of accessible information and how it can incite action by changing minds and policies. People just need the knowledge to act. This is what the true value of SEO is to me. Search engines can be a public resource for trusted information and services that help people find exactly what they’re looking for.
But there is heavy competition from all kinds of websites in search engine result pages (SERPs), good and bad alike. Trusted sources as well as spammy ones, good-faith actors and bad-faith actors, quality research and flat-out misinformation are all competing for your attention in the SERPs.
I integrate SEO into my stories so they can compete with (and often outrank) lower-quality sources on the same topics. Some of these articles include:
- Enietra Washington, sole confirmed survivor of the Grim Sleeper
- The bombing of Otherside Lounge, a lesbian bar in Atlanta
- Police killings of unarmed Latinos in Los Angeles since 2016
- Matt Ingram’s accusation of reckless eyeballing and the fear of Black sexuality
- Jovita Idár’s fight for Mexican-American rights in Texas
- The high rates of sexual assault that bisexual women and men face
- How an iconic drag queen named Crystal LaBeija transformed queer culture
- Yuri Kochiyama at the intersection of Black Power & Asian movements
No Paywalls Here: Credit Card Not Necessary for Access
When you read a story at Blurred Bylines, you won’t see third-party ads that track your online activity or paywalls that block your ability to read articles. My goal is to produce well-sourced, accurate stories that offer empathy and historical context in an online ecosystem that rarely rewards that. If you’d like to support BB in other ways, I welcome you to visit my official Ko-Fi or inquire about SEO services.
In recent years, there’s been a massive surge in constricting information that was once freely available to anyone. Whether it’s from rampant state governments censoring books in the classroom, ill-equipped billionaires who run the largest social media platforms into the ground, or streaming services that permanently remove media to avoid paying the people who created it, it’s become a bit harder to find good content and the online communities that form around it.
In addition, there’s no use of AI-generated content anywhere on this site or in the SEO work I do. Blurred Bylines is 100% human-made, 100% of the time. I’m the sole writer here, but if I ever get the budget, I hope to hire a small team of freelance writers to help build out the article side of BB down the line.
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Contact Shari
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