Tim Barrus Blog
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Quick Clip From When Death Is Best
This is our interpretation of what it feels like for a survivor of sexual assault to be repeatedly examined.
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/us/politics/shutdown-congress-trump-wall.html?comments#permid=30359805
I cannot shut my family down. Families just don’t work that way.
And yet we begin again every day. I’m in bed smoking medical marijuana that we grow. Or I cannot stand. I am no good on the floor of the house of Usher. Breakfast is being cooked. I…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
This was originally written in response to the NYT’s piece on gene editing. The two children who are now free from acquiring HIV are lucky.
The rest of the world moans and groans. The rest of the world is shit.
As I was writing…
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Video: The Whip Marks of Revenge
Never fall in love with a hustler. It’s a bad idea.
https://tim-barrus.format.com/about
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Everyone Else’s Values: A Minefield
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Twitter is a love it or leave it kinda thing. A landscape of conflict and values and lack of both.
People left me by the droves when I wrote a blog post that took parents especially to task for that viral moment where white teenage boys were intimidating an elder…
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When Death Is Best
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In life, you can find yourself falling into situations that you don’t want to be in.
Sometimes, that situation is life itself.
We at Smash Street are using video to explore what this means and how it feels.
The medical infrastructure that constitutes facilitating surviving both sexual exploitation and HIV…
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Video: On Listening
I keep having to reiterate to each kid I deal with, that I am listening. There are times, however, when I pretend.
They know it.
And I know it.
There is an Ed Albee line from A Delicate Balance when the character, Tobias, turns to the character, Claire, and says,…
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Smurf Must Stop Running
I get that you keep running. It makes kind of a crazy sense.
I am sorry you were raped.
It was a bad thing. I believe you.
I also believe the HIV is real.
I know, too, for a fact that juvenile detention is dangerous.
There are no comprehensive standards.…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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The USS David Brooks is Sinking
I am shocked. It hardly ever happens. The USS Brooks is headed for Rome, and some of us will not swim there. Whatever happed to the David Brooks’ Rules of a Civil Gentleman. Brooks is conflicted.
All editorial copies dumped off the ship to…