Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Appalachia
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http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/appalachia-trump-coal.html?comments#permid=31085665
Appalachia. The nearest doctor who will treat us is a hundred miles away. Everyone I know is sick with something. Because we get such little and inferior medical care. The power company has released so much vile poison into the river, all the fish that we used to rely…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Suicide
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http://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/suicide-prevention.html?comments#permid=31069462
After they are dead, I will go into their rooms to smell them. As if to remind myself that each one is a separate individual. I put his pillow in my face and breathe him in deeply. I crawl naked into his bed. I finally sleep. The days after…
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Video: We Are The Travelers & We Have Returned
We are the travelers whose empty lips have foreshadowed the wolves growling at the door. Some say the strength of twenty men.
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Video: Chinatown, Chinatown
Poetry Performance: by Tim Barrus
Poetry Script: by Harrison
Camera Work: Smurf
I do not want to be a spy for hope. I do not believe in hope. I know this: Life sucks. I want to be a spy for crazy.
It’s crazy to be in extraordinary and chronic pain.…
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Video: U Gotta Have Your Own Thing
Performance: by Tim Barrus
Poetry Script: by Darren
Camera: Smurf
Death is when you have nothing about yourself including you. You gotta have your own thing.
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DOGS IN THE STREET
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR INTERNET.
YOU CAN’T HEAR ME BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT LISTENING.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
I CAN SEE YOUR FACE.
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
I teach adolescent boys with HIV. The Hard To Reach. Many of the boys have done sex work. They all come from extraordinary poverty, impoverished and struggling school districts, the guilt and remorse prostitution engenders, and the debilitating stigma HIV itself promotes. Where in this is there any hope. Suicide…
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Stigma at Public Health
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https://tim-barrus.format.com/about
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broken trust
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Many things can fade with time. The sexual abuse of kids is not always one of those things. The average male who has been abused, does not begin to articulate that abuse until the age of thirty. At Smash Street, we try to put the pieces back together again because…
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medical abuse by blair
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Often, the medical community, in its quest to reduce our humanity down to what it sees as manageable numbers, just creates bigger problems that are difficult and complex to even begin to solve. The medical community is indifferent, patriarchal, authoritarian, mean, and frequently wrong. Infectious disease specialists have a long…