Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
An Open Letter For the Bubbas https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/arts/harpers-letter.html#commentsContainer&permid=108012836:108012836 Rich writers telling Trump Suporters that the rest of us idiots need the voices of the stupid. We do not. We already know what they think. These are rich writers. With money. Are they hungry. No. Are they in hospital. No. Are they… -
Tim Barrus: New York Times
We elected it. Nothing works. Our culture is irresponsible, and reprehensible. Our systems failed. Our politics failed. Our institutions failed. We failed. America writ large. Capitalism failed. We cannot wiggle out of the thing. The resposibiliuty for our own greed and racism. We created our own nightmare. We can’t even… -
Tim Barrus in the New York Times
Moms need weed. I am not supposed to say that. I am not supposed to write it either. There are no moms here. It’s me and the boys. We have not been in public in three months. I put all the furniture out on the veranda. We can sit and…
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The Wolves Are at the Door
Tim Barrus: New York Times I deal with adolescent boys who live with HIV. Many have had upfront experience with the foster care system. Food was scarce on a good day. They dumpster dive. Snap itself was built around the fact that kids could get some food in school. There…
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Take-Out Only
the families on my street have started burning wood again we all knew that someday it would all come tumbling down all around us and then it did/ like this arthritis in my hands will grind you down to bone and dust/ waiting to eat the stones waiting to eat…
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The Inequality of Dreams
As someone who deals with foster children and the foster care system, I note anecdotally, that African-American adolescents do not always articulate that they share many of the dreams that white boys in particular conceptualize seeing themselves as people who can grasp the dream (even when the evidence to the…
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Some Photographs Pull Me In
Even in some of my older photographs, if I look at them, they grab me – again – roughly, and I’m back again. With them. With them. https://timbarrus.tumblr.com
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Free 4 Republicans
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