Britt Kaufman
@brittwriter.bsky.social
playwright, poet, educator, avid reader (esp sci-fi)
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Britt Kaufman
@brittwriter.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
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This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
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Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckels-jellyfish
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckels-jellyfish
Purple first on a 5/5 difficulty day! I’ll take it.
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Purple first on a 5/5 difficulty day! I’ll take it.
They didn't just call them iBabbleFish? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...
The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
They didn't just call them iBabbleFish? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...
Just finished this book by @yarntheory.bsky.social and highly recommend it. You will be transported and better equipped to live in these times.
🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 In North Continent Ribbon, Ursula Whitcher weaves a complex picture of the planet Nakharat, showing how the politics of power plays out through the lives of individuals, & how collective resistance evolves within intimate relationships.
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just finished this book by @yarntheory.bsky.social and highly recommend it. You will be transported and better equipped to live in these times.
Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
deep breath. rest. then get back at it.
August 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
deep breath. rest. then get back at it.
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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The “Origin Story” for Austin’s song “Where It Gets Exciting” involves David Bowie, John Lewis, and… JJ Redick? Yes, really!
Where It Gets Exciting
An Origin Story
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June 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The “Origin Story” for Austin’s song “Where It Gets Exciting” involves David Bowie, John Lewis, and… JJ Redick? Yes, really!
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Fiber optic internet finally restored post-Helene!
April 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Fiber optic internet finally restored post-Helene!
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Share the names of your chickens! #GranolaMennonite
April 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Share the names of your chickens! #GranolaMennonite
If you need some cheer as much as I do… here ya go!
March 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you need some cheer as much as I do… here ya go!
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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
March 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
Here is me, absolutely giddy and fangirling over @sarah-hart.bsky.social signing a copy of her book for me! I’m so fortunate to have gotten to hear her speak at UNCA tonight!
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Here is me, absolutely giddy and fangirling over @sarah-hart.bsky.social signing a copy of her book for me! I’m so fortunate to have gotten to hear her speak at UNCA tonight!
Anyone else feel like Adam Driver’s character in The Dead Don’t Die… you just keep saying, “This isn’t going to end well.”
March 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Anyone else feel like Adam Driver’s character in The Dead Don’t Die… you just keep saying, “This isn’t going to end well.”
Sure I’ve made soup beans with ham before, but today, for the first time, I used honest-to-pig fatback.
January 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Sure I’ve made soup beans with ham before, but today, for the first time, I used honest-to-pig fatback.
In early celebration of International Day of Women & Girls in Science (Feb 11), I’ll be reading poetry in Sylva, North Carolina with an astrophysics professor!
January 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In early celebration of International Day of Women & Girls in Science (Feb 11), I’ll be reading poetry in Sylva, North Carolina with an astrophysics professor!
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
A poem from my collection especially for today.
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A poem from my collection especially for today.
I’m not sure there’s a more beautiful place I’ve had a reading than Bagatelle Books / flora in Asheville. Beautiful people there, too. I’m grateful!
January 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m not sure there’s a more beautiful place I’ve had a reading than Bagatelle Books / flora in Asheville. Beautiful people there, too. I’m grateful!
Reading MATH THERAPY by @themathguru.bsky.social and got smacked in the face by this quote: “Once upon a time, you wanted what you have now.”
January 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reading MATH THERAPY by @themathguru.bsky.social and got smacked in the face by this quote: “Once upon a time, you wanted what you have now.”
Come to Asheville—support a bookstore—eat out at a fantastic restaurant after… win-win+poetry
January 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Come to Asheville—support a bookstore—eat out at a fantastic restaurant after… win-win+poetry
I highly recommend these workshops Nickole Brown is leading.
January 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I highly recommend these workshops Nickole Brown is leading.