This guest post is by Tobias Rodriguez. Tobias is a recent college graduate living in New York City. His interests lie in reproductive rights, LGBT issues, and intersectionality.

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Foxconn, one of the factories in China that manufactures Apple products. For many, hearing part of Mike Daisey’s show on NPR’s “This American Life” was the first time hearing of the harsh working conditions at Foxconn and other similar factories. The same is true of the Kony 2012 video. Many who watched that video had never heard of child soldiers before. Both Daisey and Invisible Children (the makers of Kony 2012) were able to raise a lot of awareness around their respective issues.

However, NPR’s ...