Tim Barrus Blog
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Covert Photography
I can’t write this and have it picked up by trolls. So allow me to communicate this the way I communicate on Twitter. WalkingIntoAIDSClinicHoldingCamera LeftHandYouCanSeeCamGoProSmallSoIAmNotObscuringFactTaking VideoOfGovernmentAIDSclinicINeverPutCamera2MyEyesICanFeel2 DocumentWhatWeTolerateDirtyDiapers&ShitOnFloorBADBAD Thing 4People w/ HIV. COVERT PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP. -
Tim Barrus, New York Times: The Forest For The Trees
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/donald-trump-john-brennan-security-clearance.html?comments#permid=28269358 There is no infrastructure to reign Trump in. All the hopeful people working so hard to protect democracy sadly cannot see the forest for the trees. The forest gone. The trees cut down. And America is finished. It is too late to bring a corpse back. Trump will rise…
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HITCHHIKERS
i started hitchhiking right around the age of ten and got hooked on it until the day arrived that i bought my first trail bike about half the people who picked me up had weed getting into that car with the two women was an education as was the beach…
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le sac à nouveau
I live out of one bag. One bag.
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Witches Live Here
Poery Is Dangersome Shit
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ChopShop
I bought my first bike from him. And then, I stayed 4 a week. He sold a lot of bikes, none of them legally. My new hog looked exactly like a hog I had looked at across town. I know what’s for sale and my ass was one of those… -
Poetic License
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Plotting Survival
Any adolescent boy who has done sex work to survive can tell at least one horror story involving tricks. Some boys can tell a hundred of these stories. Being ripped off. Being assaulted. Being forced to commit acts the boy does not want to perform. Being blackmailed. Being threatened. Being…
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AIDS IS NOT OVER
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
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…