Tim Barrus Blog
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Young Boys Doing Sex Work: Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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The New York Times’ recently published piece on sex work, brothels, and landlords was informative, well-written, and fundamentally relevant. I am here to tell you that there is another side to these complex issues that never gets articulated because the world of young boys doing sex work is far more…
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No 1 Knows What Facebook Is
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
Different versions of one’s second selves remains a successful strategy. Greed is not a second self. It is a spectrum. We are not what we pretend to be on Facebook.
My actual friends plead with me not to lift the veil. My friends are…
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Bringing Back the Guillotine
Tim Barrus: The New York Times
A Response to David Brooks
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opinion/republican-party-nativism-trump.html?comments#permid=29423042
The word KING insinuates that most of us are serfs because we are. Collectively, the serfs are finding out their power is ephemeral.
Americans bristle that they are not serfs.
People, you can’t even get into the castle…
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Cooking In the Rain
We do not mind cooking outside in the rain. Or sleeping in tents. What matters to us is staying together. We are quite aware of the fact that when we are together, we don’t even think too much about HIV.
We cannot afford to do this in most urban environments…
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I Popped One
When you combine the emotionally damaged trick with your life and your sexuality on a screen, as you advertise your cock and your hole as available for a price, you, too, have removed yourself from the possibility of knowing anyone on an intimate basis, basically because that computer screen is…
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All the Little Pieces Back Together Again
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it means safe from being hunted down by cops
it means safe from living in a space where rape is rampant
it means safe from the demands of the school you quit
it means safe to try having friends
it means safe to express yourself
it means safe from malnutrition…
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U Were Not Asleep
so who could sleep
what we really
wanted to do
was dance and yell and
jump around on
the bed and
drink jack
daniels right from
the bottle
and run naked
around the room
which is what
we did
twice
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What is wealth.
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AIDS is one disease.
Poverty is its sister.
Where the fuck is the cure.
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Holding Me Up
In the next year, three million adolescents will run away. Forty percent of them will identify themselves as being gay.
Many will take up sex work in order to survive.
These kids are at-risk for everything from HIV to being arrested. Depending on the state, runaways under the age of…
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IT WAS MORE DRAMATIC THAN THAT
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Starting something.
Yeah. Yeah.
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