Tim Barrus Blog
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ChopShop
I bought my first bike from him. And then, I stayed 4 a week. He sold a lot of bikes, none of them legally. My new hog looked exactly like a hog I had looked at across town. I know what’s for sale and my ass was one of those…
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Poetic License
Poetic License
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Plotting Survival
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Any adolescent boy who has done sex work to survive can tell at least one horror story involving tricks. Some boys can tell a hundred of these stories. Being ripped off. Being assaulted. Being forced to commit acts the boy does not want to perform. Being blackmailed. Being threatened. Being…
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AIDS IS NOT OVER
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The Trump Regime has made it very clear to American evangelicals that it is going to end all funding to AIDS. Monies going to the Ryan White Act, a program that makes AIDS meds – antiretrovirals – accessible as these drugs can cost a hundred-thousand-dollars a year, will disappear as…
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THE WAR ON BOYS. TIM BARRUS, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/opinion/feminists-misogyny-patriarchy.html?comments#permid=28008188
I work with adolescent boys. Jessica Valenti is right.
Boys are conflicted. Living in cultures that are themselves conflicted. This is not simply gender warfare, but it’s cultural warfare, too. Boys are both compelled and attracted. They are also threatened by a looming lack of privilege. What a self-created…
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Genocide
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
AIDS Clinics Cut-Back
Today, AIDS agencies are simply afraid that their funding will be cut back, and it will, the reality remains that people with HIV in the rural South cannot access HIV meds.
The structure we have is cruelly off limits to people in…
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3 kept watch like angels
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PHANTASMAGORIC
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RE: The New York Times
Literary “experts” have called my books “phantasmagoric.” I have no idea what it means. I write images that exist in shadows, whispers, explorations as to what the word “identity” really means.
In America, identity is also thematic. This throws Americans off balance as they are…
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YOUR CULTURE WILL IMPLODE: tim barrus, ny times
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http://tim-barrus.format.com/
My takes are usually different. Matthew Schmitz does not know radicals. We often get left out of the conversation. We are here. Not that many people know about us which means my comments will not be published. Views of who we are remain generic. Our contempt is for everyone…
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That Heaven’s Vault Should Crack
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I work with young boys who do sex work to survive.
We call them boys at-risk. It’s just a term. It doesn’t mean anything.
Supposedly, I teach art. Maybe.
Suicide is where we live and breathe.
Things are bad.
The cops seem to be on fire these days.
My real…