Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with sexual-exploitation
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On Being Abandoned
I have never met a kid doing sex work who was not sexually abused, or abandoned in some way, and, likely, both. It was bone fucking cold. Michigan in the winter. I begged my parents for at least a sweater. That was when they sat me down, I had no…
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Rape As Punishment In Juvenile Detention Has to Stop
The Department of Justice estimates that one in every three boys referred to juvenile justice detention is raped. I used to wonder what it might take for people to care enough to put a stop to it. I was naive to put it mildly. Institutions employ rape as overt victimization.…
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When Death Is Best
In life, you can find yourself falling into situations that you don’t want to be in. Sometimes, that situation is life itself. We at Smash Street are using video to explore what this means and how it feels. The medical infrastructure that constitutes facilitating surviving both sexual exploitation and HIV…