Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with disability
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They Want to Burn My Penis
I am in the hospital. I am supposedly having a cardio conversion. Half of my heart is dead. I only have half a heart. So they planned this procedure, and I show up. UNC Pardee. A woman walks up to me and says. Strip. Excuse me. If you refuse to…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times has a section called FAMILY. I have no idea what the fuck it means. For me, family is a tribal idea used to grind you into the dirt. Simple. Intimidation. This is the place in the publication that predominately reaches out to the Mommies. Journalists have…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am conflicted about inclusion. I have been in the thick of it. In some ways, it’s just managing chaos. After a year of inclusion, my typical 6th graders never once invited the disabled in – the disabled kids were not their friends, they were just obstacles in the classroom…
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Some Will Some Won’t
I am a communist. You could always hear us coming down the hall. Kids looking around for codes and secret signs. We all do that anyway. Kids are kids on a good day. “But he had a rainbow on the door.” My ideas about health care begin with having the…