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Tim Barrus: How 2 Use Rivet In a Sentence
WHO CARES what someone says on a blog (fuck me) and I’m gonna go home and tell my mom. Mommie is dead. Guppy is dead. He was a fish. Who gives a flying fuck. In 1462, I drove a Mustang. I was twelve but I could pass for sixteen I…
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Tim Barrus Response NYT Ross Douthat
I am a communist. Capitalism is confused. These ideas will be too radical for Gatekeepers. Because the ideas are the truth. Gatekeepers will never see Appalachia for what it is. A place apart. Not the candy cane Instagram Place Apart. But a Harder Truth. Executions in WV were all hanging…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Boys Who Do Sex Work
I teach boys called the Hard To Reach. More stigma. Most have done lots of sex work. Many have HIV. Some have starred in porn where the age of consent is fluid, often fictional, and enhanced youth in post-production. My work is exhausting and most traditional teachers vividly do not…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I never asked to be here. My life has always has been a painful, vile thing. My parents are dead and I blame them. I slug it out day-to-day. There are too many children, too many irresponsible, self-inflated parents who have kids for their own indifferent reasons. They are only…