Kaia Ball (They/Them)

Wherever you buy books 😍 Check out my essay "In My Worst Nightmares, My Father Transitions" in Both/And !

electricliterature.com/both-and-is-... Congrats to @thedennemichele.bsky.social, my fellow essayists, & the entire EL team! So grateful to y'all & so glad to see your work being recognized!!! #qtbipocwriters

I'm always singing the praises of the Rejection Competition! janelledrumwright.substack.com/p/turn-your-...

#ziwe guests think they're afraid of ziwe. but they're afraid of themselves. This isn't deep, it's just literal. They're afraid of what will come out of their own mouths. They are afraid of looking into the mirror Ziwe holds up. anyways anyone else a vince staples stan now

3/ ✍️ Writers: We're looking for pitches from early talent Trans+ writers and journalists to write 700-1000 word history articles - one for each day of Trans+ History Week 🏳️‍⚧️ Apply 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/telltranshis...

So honored!!! Thank you @enbylife.bsky.social for the nomination!!

As someone currently writing a pilot that involves investigative journalism work, it is dispiriting to see how boring a show about an actual conspiracy would be.

Rettel Set Go #512 🏁 📖 6 words 🎯 16 points rettelgame.com/rettel-set-go

Rettel Search #263 🔍 🟦⬜✅ rettelgame.com/rettel-search

Connections Puzzle #876 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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yeah that sounds like chitown

"They cast aspersions on the throwing of lots, and yet they perform baseless augury of their own" -a wizard watching dudes play fanduel

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."

tryna bump my duotrigordle.com ranking. think i miiight be able to shave off a guess next time

Connections Puzzle #871 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I practiced with a Connections archive this weekend and now the thrill has been entirely lost to me. learn the dangers of over sharpening your blade. learn sooner than i did

worst part of working at a nonprofit is all the whimsical, misleading names. "Director of Individual Gifts" "Chief Party Officer"

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Ep 5 of ALPHANUMERIC, Haunting Hollers, is out now! I love love love being the lead editor of ALPHANUMERIC & collating the work of incredible authors, and helping to bring that work to a podcatcher near you! www.zoeticpress.com/4lph4num3r1c

the next "murder mystery enemies to lover romantasy ABO" i see is getting the guillotine

getting into wordle variants isnt great for my emotional health but it is also bad for my mental health Daily Duotrigordle #1319 Guesses: 37/37 2️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ duotrigordle.com

Wordle 1,574 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 close one!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIK... Just learned* about the Polish sport Ringo and now I want to see this adapted in a sci-fi setting so badly *shoutout to my ASL teacher

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

no, im not removing Venmo from the "Social Media Proficiencies" part of my resume. its valuable experience

Via garyseconomics 💲💲 Here's a short animated video about how wealth inequality affects us. Share it with a friend who might not understand it yet.

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

Do you want to be a famous writer? You just have to vomit that book up babe

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

(nineties surfer dude "bodacious babe" voice) salient points

Trans+ folks! Take this survey, great org looking to collate data www.pointofpride.org/trans-health...

im glad everyone’s registering their opinion on a famous guy being transphobic by each and every one of us quote tweeting it to say “i don’t like this”, that’s good

Check out Alphanumeric, a speculative fiction literary podcast edited by yours truly! (with the help of many incredible people at Zoetic Press) Episode 3 is coming out soon, keep an eye out for it! www.zoeticpress.com/an-02-surrea...

hey writers & specfic creators! I'll be interviewed during a virtual showcase at the 2025 Flights of Foundry conference! It's a free, virtual, weekend-long con centered on speculative fiction. Hope to "see" you there! flights-of-foundry.org

femme/butch relations

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.