Monday Info Meeting Recap

I've been sending this email out to everyone who missed the meeting, but I figure I might as well post it here, so everyone can enjoy it. How lovely.


Sorry you weren’t able to attend the info meeting Monday! Here are the basics of what we covered:

SMUT magazine is all about sex-positivity. We firmly believe that sex touches almost every facet of our lives, and it’s about time the Cornell campus as a whole starts talking about it in an educated, positive, and FUN manner! We have all kinds of resources, but no matter how many packets of lube and condoms we hand out on Ho Plaza, there’s not going to be any change in overall attitudes unless we start talking about sex issues explicitly. We want to be fun, but also informative—and we want our content to reflect this. We want to range from steamy erotica (and erotic drawings/pictures) to sober issues of sexual health and news, silly comics to academic discourse (for example, an essay on the role of Marie Antoinette as pornographic object in the French Revolution, is an idea we’ve actually received), and everything in-between.

SMUT magazine is a fledgling publication—this will be our first issue, and we’re pretty green. What this means is, if you can breathe, if you have any sort of talent, we need your help! There are TONS of ways to get involved right now: we need staff writers (people who are willing to write more than one article, and to work with us up through the publishing phase), people to help with advertising and the business/financial side of things, people to help with layout and art, and people to help us with making our really neat ideas for our internet presence become a reality. We want to have a fun section, so if you or someone you know draws comics, or feels like writing a silly Cosmo-esque quiz (“Do you have a penis and not know it??”), or something else sex-related and amusing, we’d LOVE to accept that as well. We will also be accepting writing/art/etc. submissions from the community at large, so don’t feel like you have to make a huge time commitment. Anything you feel up to will make us happy.

In addition to all of this, we are currently accepting applications for editorship: if you’re interested in becoming the editor of a section (news, health, opinion, literature/art, layout, copyeditors, etc) please email us and let us know! We will send you a short application, and arrange a short, fun, informal interview with you very soon after.

Thank you so much for expressing interest in SMUT! We hope you’re as excited about this as we are. As soon as (possibly before) we hire our editorial board, we’re going to send out a call for submissions, so get ready! Also, if you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to email us. We check our inbox like maybe 20 million times a day, and we’d love to address your concerns.