Tim Barrus Blog
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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
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Everyone Else’s Values: A Minefield
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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
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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…
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Video: On Listening
I keep having to reiterate to each kid I deal with, that I am listening. There are times, however, when I pretend.
They know it.
And I know it.
There is an Ed Albee line from A Delicate Balance when the character, Tobias, turns to the character, Claire, and says,…
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Smurf Must Stop Running
I get that you keep running. It makes kind of a crazy sense.
I am sorry you were raped.
It was a bad thing. I believe you.
I also believe the HIV is real.
I know, too, for a fact that juvenile detention is dangerous.
There are no comprehensive standards.…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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The USS David Brooks is Sinking
I am shocked. It hardly ever happens. The USS Brooks is headed for Rome, and some of us will not swim there. Whatever happed to the David Brooks’ Rules of a Civil Gentleman. Brooks is conflicted.
All editorial copies dumped off the ship to…
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Public Health Adolescent Anal Examinations
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I don’t really give a fuck what Public Health is assuming or looking for.
With boys, they’re looking for anal warts.
Those boys feel the exams are sexually abusive. The boys I teach, strenuously object to being treated like an objects.
I have joined that chorus. Someone has to be…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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I get Trump. He’s a mean and cruel monster. He is America. What I don’t get are the people who work for him. I don’t mean his fellow enforcers and goon squads. I mean the people who are out of work.
The guards and sentries and the childcare workers and…
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Stepping Outside of Convention
VIDEO: Smash Street Boys
https://tim-barrus.format.com/cinematheque-films