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Counter Arts

@counterarts

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active: 2021-11-24 → 2026-07-26

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LG LGWare, The Black Lens · Counter Arts

The Psychology of Men Who Treat Their Birthday Like a Normal Day

I recently received a short video in which a young woman smiles into the camera. She has a knowing look on her face, but she doesn’t say a…

Apr 08, 2026 · 4 min read · 9,407 claps paywalled #equality #men #mental-health

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RY Ryan Frawley · Counter Arts

When the Platform Replaces the Process, We All Lose

Jake Paul and the wisdom in letting beautiful things die

Jan 03, 2026 · 7 min read · 1,556 claps paywalled #culture #art #sports

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AL Allie Funk · Counter Arts

No, Secretary Kennedy, My Mother Isn’t Committing Fraud

RFK accuses family caregivers of fraud — he gets everything about them wrong

May 18, 2026 · 7 min read · 1,289 claps paywalled #government #healthcare #disability

No, Secretary Kennedy, My Mother Isn’t Committing Fraud

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RY Ryan Frawley · Counter Arts

Sacred Spaces and the Song the Universe Sings

The world is an instrument for divine music

Feb 11, 2026 · 5 min read · 1,197 claps paywalled #music #art #culture

Sacred Spaces and the Song the Universe Sings

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BI Bill Crandall · Counter Arts

Why Africa’s largest slum is the best place in Nairobi

And how to avoid ‘poverty-porn’

Dec 05, 2023 · 8 min read · 808 claps paywalled #kenya #nairobi #kibera

Why Africa’s largest slum is the best place in Nairobi

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JA James S. Baker · Counter Arts

Dogmatic vs Dogcentric

Existential crisis at the age of 8 — do we live in a just universe or not?

Jul 13, 2026 · 9 min read · 712 claps paywalled #this-happened-to-me #religion #culture

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BR Brittany Jezouit · Counter Arts

Do a Little Linocut

On birthdays, creative rebirths, and an intro to linocut printmaking

May 17, 2026 · 7 min read · 598 claps paywalled #art #motherhood #printmaking

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MA Maria Cassano · Counter Arts

I Asked TikTok to Help Me Find My Long-Lost Fourth Grade Teacher

I desperately needed to tell her these six words

May 29, 2026 · 5 min read · 550 claps paywalled #culture #women #writing

I Asked TikTok to Help Me Find My Long-Lost Fourth Grade Teacher

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AL Alison Forster · Counter Arts

Latour’s “What is Iconoclash?”

…But reimagined as Iconic Iconoclasm

Sep 23, 2024 · 8 min read · 518 claps paywalled #cultural-semiotics #latour #philosophy

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MA Marc Barham · Counter Arts

Racism and Rockwell: ‘So You Want To See The President!’ (1943)

Where are the Black Americans?

Nov 23, 2025 · 5 min read · 518 claps paywalled #art #culture #racism

Racism and Rockwell: ‘So You Want To See The President!’ (1943)

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BE Bertrand Liang, MD PhD MBA · Counter Arts

Fresh Bread in a Stale Breadbox: The Hegemony of Reason

The journey to flipping the script

Sep 22, 2025 · 9 min read · 478 claps paywalled #memoir #friendship #premedical

Fresh Bread in a Stale Breadbox: The Hegemony of Reason

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SI Simon Goss · Counter Arts

5 Nudes: The last of the Bucket Listers

Five more life drawings of one-hit wonders

Sep 23, 2025 · 6 min read · 473 claps paywalled #nude-art #life-drawing #nude-model

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DR Dr. Janine Bouey · Counter Arts

Four Bottles of Water: The Killing of Cyrus Carmack-Belton and the Price America Puts on Black…

A fourteen-year-old boy put four water bottles back on the shelf and walked out of a store alive, but he was dead within minutes

Jun 05, 2026 · 9 min read · 466 claps paywalled #equality #cyrus-carmack-belton #latashaharlins

Four Bottles of Water: The Killing of Cyrus Carmack-Belton and the Price America Puts on Black…

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SH Sheng-mei Ma · Counter Arts

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson’

One white veteran, many minority muses

Apr 04, 2026 · 7 min read · 466 claps paywalled #jim-jarmusch #william-carlos-williams #paterson

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VI Vincent Halles · Counter Arts

Do Not Repress the God of Ecstasy

A 2,400-year-old warning about control

Jul 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 453 claps paywalled #mythology #literature #play

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JO Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life! · Counter Arts

Shhh, ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Was My Unexpected Guilty Pleasure

I wanted to hate it, but its frothy silliness was right up my alley

Jul 14, 2026 · 6 min read · 407 claps paywalled #television #culture #mental-health

Shhh, ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Was My Unexpected Guilty Pleasure

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AN Andrew Jazprose Hill · Counter Arts

Is Scott Pelley the Count Rostov of Broadcast News?

Getting fired from CBS won’t hurt the wealthy newsman too much. But he could learn a lot from the protagonist of ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’

Jun 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 400 claps paywalled #culture #news-media #literature

Is Scott Pelley the Count Rostov of Broadcast News?

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SH Sheng-mei Ma · Counter Arts

Born on the Fourth of July versus Hillbilly Elegy

On American dis- versus re-member-ing veterancy

Jan 09, 2026 · 17 min read · 397 claps paywalled #veteran-studies #memory-and-forgetting #ron-kovic

Born on the Fourth of July versus Hillbilly Elegy

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MA Maria Hassan · Counter Arts

The Genius of ‘Derry Girls’

How a sitcom about the Troubles mastered the art of survival

Jul 05, 2026 · 6 min read · 394 claps #northern-ireland #netflix #tv-shows

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OR organic flow. · Counter Arts

Hiding My Precious Mind

Moby’s latest album release Future Quiet, and the beauty of ambient music.

Mar 07, 2026 · 5 min read · 392 claps paywalled #culture #electronic-music #vulnerability

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SI Simon Goss · Counter Arts

5 Nudes: Last of the Scrunchers

Five more life drawings of scrunched-up models

May 01, 2026 · 6 min read · 386 claps paywalled #art #nude #life-drawing

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TH Threshold Notes by Harilaos · Counter Arts

Myth at the Threshold

When Story Becomes Structural

Feb 06, 2026 · 3 min read · 384 claps paywalled #myths #mythology #storytelling

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QU Quinn Maclay · Counter Arts

AI and the Monetization of Grief

Death in the era of the digital afterlife industry

Apr 25, 2026 · 6 min read · 358 claps paywalled #ai #grief #technology

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FR Frances A. Chiu, Ph.D. | writing coach | editor · Counter Arts

No Bad Kings, 16th-c. Style: What John Ponet and George Buchanan Can Teach Us Today

Reading ‘A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power’ and ‘De Jure Regni Apud Scotus’

Jun 16, 2026 · 12 min read · 351 claps paywalled #politics #history #power

No Bad Kings, 16th-c. Style: What John Ponet and George Buchanan Can Teach Us Today

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RE Renas · Counter Arts

‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ — A New Kind of Silent Film

Why did Parajanov choose this particular style?

Sep 26, 2025 · 9 min read · 345 claps #review #cinema #film