Germ Magazine

Germ Magazine Germ Magazine was created by Violet Markey. The first ideas for this new online magazine started right after she took her old blog, EleanorandViolet.com, offline. She started with the ideas 'Lit. Love. Life.' as categories. Violet wanted Germ magazine to be different en original.

Title

Germ stands for something small that can grow into a lot. Like the germ of an idea that starts small but can develop in something great.

Content

The magazine's has kind of a coming of age theme. They will write about sex, love, school and all sorts of things like that. “We can help guide our readers into adulthood like Sherpas on Mount Everest. We give them the truth about sex, the truth about college life, the truth about love.” The important part is that they keep it real. They want to discuss the real things about life and not sugarcoat it.

Team

The first one to join the Germ team is Brenda Shankk-Kravitz. Brenda en Violet become close friends and Violet asks her to join her new magazine. Later Violet also emails other girls from their school asking them wether they are interested in contributing to her new magazine. In their first meeting 22 people who up, mostly girls except for one boyfriend and one brother.