Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opinion/state-of-the-union-trump.html?comments#permid=30490843 We have cut off our own balls and have presented them steaming and kneeling before our master on our knees and on our knees. You cannot make government yourself. You cannot remake it yourself. Not when absolute power is in your face. I have suggested to people that a… -
What Light At The End Of What Tunnel
It is the light at the end of the HIV tunnel that is an illusion. -
Tim Barrus: the New York Times
I’ve gone deeper than you can know. I feel secure enough about it to let some of it slip out into your universe of hate and complicity. So deeply off the grid, I want you to know it can still be done. It’s cold out there. In a world where…
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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
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
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 -
Everyone Else’s Values: A Minefield
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
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…