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Journalist @Tyla , editor, writer. I also present and host events inc. @nike @dazed @mubi @beatsbydre @madricerveza @factoryintl

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Kya 🧸ྀི
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Found the best graffiti ever in Mexico City
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There’s no way on this earth Timothee Chalamet can or should handle a BBL
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I fancied him and now I don’t. I hope everyone involved is really happy
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I really LOVE Meghan Markle, she makes me beam
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If ur silly you can have a bad bitch it’s actually simple
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i cannot believe this is real
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Ok, @aureliamagazine is an independent, self-funded publication. We have no funding. We decided to put our own money into this and pay £40 an article. This is what we get in return - from a woman who previously shamed us for being volunteer-led. I’m shaking - this is awful
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3 years
If you're a writer from the North of England, esp Liverpool/Manchester, please make yourself known! Working on a v exciting brief and want to expand my list of potential people to commission/contact.
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3 years
This is from a real email
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Excited to announce the series I'm guest editing for @galdemzine , 'The passage that changed me' 🖊️ Open to pitches from people of colour of marginalised genders. Email kyajbuller @gmail [.]com, deadline 25th July. Will be published by gal-dem and later, @aureliamagazine . Let's go!
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Happy New Year! Pitch me first-person pieces and/or timely opinion pieces for Metro at kya.buller @metro .co.uk
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🚨 Little bit of news! I’m doing some editing work at @MetroUK , on first person stories. I’ll be commissioning soon, but in the meantime here’s my email if you’d like to say hello! kya.buller @metro .co.uk ✍️💌🧞‍♀️
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Working on a new section for @aureliamagazine that will focus on personal responses to books, film, tv, art and culture - please send through any relevant pitches or just introduce yourself! Email in bio, marginalised genders only!
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I'm bringing a small group of Mancunian/Manchester-based creatives together for an amazing & paid opp in Manchester in July. Must be comfortable talking about yourself and our city in front of an audience. Please recommend yourself or other people 😈
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I miss The Pool, I miss gal-dem, I miss Broadly, I miss Aurelia
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Remember pre social distancing when people used to sit next to you on public transport! Always felt illegal tbh
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I finally got the email I’ve been waiting for... the invitation to be a Savage x Fenty ambassador 💥💥💥😧🏳️‍🌈💃🏽🌞💥☺️😧😂😂🖤😂🌞🥰😧🍸🏳️‍🌈😧
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Have you always wanted to write a column? If yes, send me an email with details of what your column would be. Interested in traditional ideas and brand new ones! Looking to commission at least two ✨kya @aureliamagazine .com
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Would love to commission a series of 3-4 recipes by an up-and-coming food writer of colour. Any keen cooks out there? Email me on kya[@]aureliamagazine[.]com This applies to women, non-binary people & trans men!
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When I was 18 I thought the cure to a hangover was a brew and a bacon butty. I now realise the cure was being 18
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Really excited to say I am now ✨commissioning✨ for @MetroUK , specifically Platform Have a look around the section and pitch me your real-life stories and op-eds! kya.buller @metro .co.uk
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Looking for first-person pieces for @aureliamagazine ! Open to anything but especially drawn to stories about love, lust, food, lessons, identity and responses to news/culture. Pls take a look at the site! kya[at]aureliamagazine[dot]com. We pay £40
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. @jesshopeevans it's extremely nauseating that you, a white woman, will sit there and try to tear down my publication (no quotation marks needed) and then delete my responses. Awful behaviour and embarrassing tbh
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Who gave me permission x
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We could have obv carried on not being able to offer a fee until a magical investor came along. What does she want? For independent publications that centre marginalised voices to not exist? I'm sick of her, any support welcomed
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Me applying for job: here’s my impressive CV I have plenty of experience and great skills I’m also a brilliant person Job: no thank :D
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I just told someone the queen is dying and they thought I meant I had a hangover
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Are you guys looking for a third?
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She felt good today ladies and gentlemen
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I’m at my desk today and looking for first-person stories/opinion pieces for @aureliamagazine . £40 per article, we pay within a week, plus you’ll get to work with MEEE. Speak ur truths, I wanna hear it! Marginalised genders only. Email in bio ✨
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So pleased to have been commissioned to write this love letter to my favourite clubs in Manchester and how incredible it felt to dance again after so long indoors, for @TimeOutLondon 💃🎊🥵
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Every so often people try and get in touch with me and I remember them publicly trashing Aurelia when we couldn’t afford to pay and so I just do not reply 🥲 I always remember lmao
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🌞 Some great news 🌞 I am SO excited to be joining @badformreview as a staff writer!! Books have always been my one true love and to be able to write about them for a publication as incredible as BF is so special ✨📚 can’t wait to get started!
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Just got a pitch for Aurelia that included 'I buy your magazine every month'. Where from?!?!?! I want one!!!!!
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Reminder that I'm open for pitches and we pay £40 per article at this point! Get me on kya[at]aureliamagazine[dot]com
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Just commissioned the first Aurelia piece I can pay for. Now taking a bubble bath with my favourite red wine. What a a DAY 💛
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I wrote about wanting to be a writer, becoming a model, feeling like those two worlds are at complete odds with each other and struggling to be both. I've wanted to write about this for a long long time, here it is!
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YOU WHAT OMG I always convince myself no one cares about my writing lmao I’m crying
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Cut my hair off xxx
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I'm *PROUD* proud.
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Some good news - we're increasing how much we pay our writers!! We're an independent, self-funded publication. Reader donations have been invaluable! If you'd like to support us, you can do so here: 💛
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I'm back and I want your pitches for @aureliamagazine - we publish personal essays/first-person narratives so send ideas centered on your lived experiences, love, hope, sex, identity, family, friendship etc! Get me on kya @aureliamagazine .com. Marginalised genders only
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Just want a nice editing role at a great publication so I can make money doing what I love. Is that so much to ask!
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Miss Rona said fuck the Tories!
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6 practical ways to start your own magazine, according to Aurelia Magazine’s editor Kya Buller I AM SO PROUD. I’ve written about @aureliamagazine and the journey so far for @StylistMagazine (!) what a complete dream. 🏆 I need to lie down now
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This year I really want to give somebody an @aureliamagazine column!
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Today I formally handed in my notice to the job that has been making me miserable for a year! No real back up plan but I have a lot of self belief! This is a great day
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To keep you updated: she reached out and asked for my number, I ASSUME to apologise. I'm not interested in an fake apology, she's been coming at us for time. This is just the first time I called her out. The post has been taken down but it will remain on my page, end of x
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Just been given a column 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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SHORTLISTED for the Freelance Project award! What! So proud of myself and @aureliamagazine 🥲🥲🥲🥲💛 thank you @UKWritingAwards
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Freelance Project: Jennifer Crichton @JennJCrichton – The Flock, Jason Okundaye @jasebyjason – Black and Gay, Back in the Day, Kya Buller ( @kyajbuller ) – Aurelia, Al Horner @Al_Horner – Script Apart, Elizabeth Kim @ElizabethSulis – Cunning Folk, and Dan Jolin @DanJolin – SENET.
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Attention all PRs, companies, people - I'm always available for chats, coffee, lunch (or virtually, if you're not in Manchester!) Drop me a line! kya.buller @ladbiblegroup .com Open to experiencing your events, products or discuss ways we could work together ₊˚ʚ ᗢ₊˚✧
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Spent my last year of uni severely depressed and STILL SOMEHOW MANAGED TO DO VERY FUCKING WELL 🎓! I am proud as punch
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Please follow @aureliamagazine ! Some very, VERY exciting news and opportunities coming soon ❤️🍾
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Trying to build up a roster of talented Manchester writers for exciting projects. Don’t care about age, or how much they’ve been published, just need to be alive... feel free to recommend yourself or others pls 🌹
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I can’t stop crying about Sarah Everard and the countless other women just like her, when will this end
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Obv I'm so gutted about this. Aurelia is my life - I made it because I knew it had to exist - it's heartbreaking to be going through such uncertainty. If you can, if you love @aureliamagazine , please consider helping and thank you for all of the support so far x
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A day we never wanted to come - we have to stop publishing. We've tried all we can to avoid this happening, but the truth is we need your help. Please consider supporting our feelings-first independent publication today. Thank you
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Huge group of anti vaxxers/anti lockdown protestors have turned up in the Manchester space we’re supposed to be protesting #PoliceCrackdownBill at 4:30 Not a mask in sight (obviously). Police presence but absolutely no signs of struggle/confrontation/arrest/violence. Interesting
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Thanks so much for all of your support, it really means the world and more. If you'd like to support Aurelia financially, you can donate here! Any amount helps 💛
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My series for the incredible @galdemzine is almost in your inboxes. Read my Editor’s Letter here, and become a gal-dem member to read our work 💜 (they will later be published on @aureliamagazine too!)
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I literally never know what journo Twitter is on about
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I love @aureliamagazine so much, I am so proud 💌❤️🌞✨💥🫀🍀☄️
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Show ur range but make it hair: Sad effort. Think I’m overdue some bleach blonde
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it is my time 2 shine show your range but make it hair:
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Appreciation tweet for @shahedezaydi who is now officially @aureliamagazine ’s Deputy Editor — SO well deserved 🌼 my work wife and all round powerhouse, idk where I’d be without you!!
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Last night was so beautiful! Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with @aureliamagazine . Running an independent mag is hard, but seeing people come together like that reminds me why I do it and what it’s all really for. Looking forward to 2022 ✨
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Real talk it’s obscene that anybody would ever let Boris Johnson mount them
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Other than Aurelia Mag my job is modelling. Is it weird that I feel like I can’t be both things at once because I won’t be taken seriously? I want to write about this
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I wrote this piece about coming to terms with not knowing my birth father, and being blessed with the best dad in the world from the age of three. Sending love to all who need it on Father’s Day 💛
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Tomorrow, we move into @aureliamagazine 's next phase. This is a really exciting (and nerve-wracking) time ofc but has meant I've had to make the really hard decision to say goodbye to our family of voluntary staff writers, as I believe it is best for everybody long-term...
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Budget is tight this month but I am open for a couple of commissions - if there's a personal essay/opinion piece you've been dying to write then pitch it to me for @aureliamagazine ! Pls have a look around the site to get a feel. Pay is £40 and I pay v quickly. Email in bio ✨
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The post has now been deleted, I love you all!
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Finally a headshot I like! 📷: Lauren Maccabee i.e. best photographer ever
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How am I supposed to live in this country and be happy? I’m totally fucking disgusted every day
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“Don’t you even find yourself slightly attracted to someone?” she would persist. A resounding “no” remained. “But why?” Great piece by @malvika_padin26 on being a panromantic asexual person and the many ways love can be experienced. A pleasure to edit!
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Slave labour? Vile. Nobody *has* to write for Aurelia, they choose to, and we pay what we can afford... yes with our own money, no external funding or grants. That doesn’t deserve a woman coming for us, and belittling us in the process.
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@kyajbuller @aureliamagazine “We put our own money into this” 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Literally beyond slave labour
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The problem with the journalism industry isn’t marginalised people forging their own spaces
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Not little old me, born on a council estate in Salford, being personally invited to the BAFTAS
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Hello! I am looking for Manchester-based trans and non-binary artists and activists comfortable speaking in front of an audience for a paid opportunity - sorry I can't put more here it's confidential but can discuss privately. Please recommend yourself or others ✨
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And now she's deleted my comments off her post LMAO.
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I have so much respect for the versatile and humble chickpea
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To be a little clearer, I'm looking to commission 3-4 writers from the North of England who can travel to Liverpool (expenses paid) and for your article, you will be paid £100. Women, non-binary people & trans men
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I feel really nice tonight!!!! Shout out to makeup!
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Back from our little break and I’m commissioning ⚡️ Send me pitches for your first-person stories (v interested in the intricacies, the little moments, happiness, love, family) and responses to news/culture. kya[at]aureliamagazine[dot]com
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🚨 REMOTE JOB 🚨 I'm looking for somebody well-informed, passionate and reliable to join Aurelia and help our independent publication thrive Marginalised genders only/POC outside of London especially encouraged to apply. Min 3 hrs per week, £10 per hour
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Out of awfice x ✈️
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I’m so gutted to see #Episodes end but my heart is warm because Carol finally got her happy ending ❤️
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Moved into the flat of my actual dreams today and it feels so good to finally celebrate my hard work!!!!
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Hiya! I'm looking for LOVE STORIES pitches (essays about any kind of love, loss, lessons learnt, relationships that shaped you, etc) for @aureliamagazine . Get in touch at kya @aureliamagazine .com 🌱
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I'm the proud owner of a 💧sex💧 column and it's launching next week... good news to all who have wondered about such things...
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So, I went for a walk and came back to find Owning Your Narrative, presented by @galdemzine , has been announced and is sold out! WHAT. Wild. If more tickets become available I’ll post about it here as I’m sure some of you would like to attend! 💘
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Remember the activity tab on Instagram? Crying your eyes out cause the person you fancied liked a picture of a girl in her undies? Same!
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No crop debut
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How heartbreaking. A televised trial is not a fair trial.
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Friends fear she’s listening to Mazzy Star on public transport again 💔
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Not my skin being flawless in a pastiche. Glowing for what? feeding my cat?
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I am so ready to live my life.
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Tough pill to swallow: realising somebody u really loved & rooted for is actually a piece of shit❗️
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Journo request time: would love to talk to people of colour currently writing their first book/working on a book idea/trying to finish a first draft. For an article! DMs open, can be kept anon
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