Tim Barrus Blog
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AIDS IS NOT OVER
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The Trump Regime has made it very clear to American evangelicals that it is going to end all funding to AIDS. Monies going to the Ryan White Act, a program that makes AIDS meds – antiretrovirals – accessible as these drugs can cost a hundred-thousand-dollars a year, will disappear as…
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THE WAR ON BOYS. TIM BARRUS, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/opinion/feminists-misogyny-patriarchy.html?comments#permid=28008188
I work with adolescent boys. Jessica Valenti is right.
Boys are conflicted. Living in cultures that are themselves conflicted. This is not simply gender warfare, but it’s cultural warfare, too. Boys are both compelled and attracted. They are also threatened by a looming lack of privilege. What a self-created…
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Genocide
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
AIDS Clinics Cut-Back
Today, AIDS agencies are simply afraid that their funding will be cut back, and it will, the reality remains that people with HIV in the rural South cannot access HIV meds.
The structure we have is cruelly off limits to people in…
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3 kept watch like angels
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PHANTASMAGORIC
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RE: The New York Times
Literary “experts” have called my books “phantasmagoric.” I have no idea what it means. I write images that exist in shadows, whispers, explorations as to what the word “identity” really means.
In America, identity is also thematic. This throws Americans off balance as they are…
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YOUR CULTURE WILL IMPLODE: tim barrus, ny times
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http://tim-barrus.format.com/
My takes are usually different. Matthew Schmitz does not know radicals. We often get left out of the conversation. We are here. Not that many people know about us which means my comments will not be published. Views of who we are remain generic. Our contempt is for everyone…
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That Heaven’s Vault Should Crack
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I work with young boys who do sex work to survive.
We call them boys at-risk. It’s just a term. It doesn’t mean anything.
Supposedly, I teach art. Maybe.
Suicide is where we live and breathe.
Things are bad.
The cops seem to be on fire these days.
My real…
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Bring Back The Revolutionary War
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The Revolutionary War happened for a reason.
I am writing this from Boston. I traveled here to walk the walk. I wanted to see the places where the Revolutionary War happened. I wanted these stunning locations to fry themselves into my brain. I need to understand.
The photographers I work…
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posted to the wall
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/reader-center/mental-health-therapists-suicide.html?comments#permid=27457130I work with at-risk boys living with HIV.
At-risk for what.Prison…Homelessness. School failure. Depression, and the fragments they have become after enduring years of sexual abuse.Then, sex work. Conflicted. Irony.Then, addiction.And this is Appalachia where people OD by the dozens. In terms of categories where you can…
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U Slept On the Ground Back Then
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i have lived in shit holes my whole fucking life/ULiterallyDoNotWant2KnowAllOfThisAmongTheBadPeopleTheyKnowWhoThey R2/ the dust on our eyelids that remainNotWords, NotDiamondsNotPotatoesTheLastOfAllTheRomans/ StillLiveinShitHolesArmedWithSwordsInBattleWhereTheFloorCouldCaveInAtAnyMoment/ WhatMoreDoUWantFromMe/