Tim Barrus Blog
-
HIS SHIT HOLE KEEPS HIM ALIVE
![]()
He sells his shit hole to not starve to death.
It’s called survival.
Not that long ago, he was born to someone. No one knows who. He has no papers. He’s undocumented. I have a hard time thinking he is illegal. He’s definitely legally here. In fact, I would guess,…
-
GoBack2FuckingHellIAmAlreadyThere
![]()
Stick it in my mouth and cum. Then, pay me.
My next door neighbor’s house lets winter seep into it like the grey February rain drains through the roof.
Go back to where you came from. Hate itself is telling us about hatred in Trump’s America.
I hate America. I…
-
the pills are here
![]()
he keeps falling over
his mouth of birthdays
a carnage of scars
sailing skies
the pills are here
the pills are here
-
Aurelien Was a Whore
That word again.
Aurelien was a veteran of the whore wars. He wanted to be a sex work activist. He wanted us to decriminalize what he did, what I did, what everyone we knew, everyone we lived with, everyone in our drug-saturated bubble did. Sex work was and is mainly…
-
QUID PRO QUO: INTERVIEWS: BOYS WHO DO SEX WORK
I was twelve.
He was a teacher.
My parents had explained to me that they could no longer afford me. They had no money.
I was on my own.
I was terrified.
All I had to do was be naked, and then it got a little bit more complicated.
He…
-
who cares
-
Tim Barrus On Being Touched: New York Times
Long before latin became a language, the politics of rape did not mean the translation we think we understand when someone says rape or writes it. Raped meant kidnapped because the Sabines were raped and kidnapped. There was no word for rape in the same way that today we still…
-
What Is Art: A Manifesto
![]()
Art is this unruly animal created by artists. It only is. It has no purpose. But to live without it reminds humanity that humanity itself is an ugly emptiness, condemned by its very cruel structures to live in perpetual grayness, a moral poverty, and humanity is stupid. It only is.…
-
If I Make Art
If I am making art, and they see that I am making art, then they make art, and that is the point that they, too, make art, and through this making art, they make themselves, they make themselves through what they see, and while they are making art, they see…
-
GAY BOYS RAPED AND DETAINED
It started with the gangs and what is called corrective rape in Central America. It would morph into government police and corrective rape at a police station in a suburb of El Salvador. Javier and Rafael had had enough. When the gangs and the cops represent the combined presence of…