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What’s Invert(e)?

Well, Invert(e) is a hold-in-your-hands journal that Greg Wharton created to take the place of his online journal, suspect thoughts. That was a pansexual playground of authors and artists that colored outside the lines in whatever art they created. Invert(e), this blog, is similar but not quite the same. This time, “queer” as a word, concept, identity, social construct, religion, revolution is the theme on which artists are invited to vary.

Invert(e), the name itself, is a play on an old-time-y term for queers: invert. Uranians was another coined-to-name-queerlings-before-the-jury-pigeonholed-everyone-into-the-homosexual corral and those identity rustlers—the trannies, the fairies, the bi-all-means—threw open the gates. But it sounds like someone from Uranus, and we welcome them to blog here when not jetting back and forth between the Io9.com-esphere and Captain Jack Harkness’s bedroom.

But why a blog when there's already a journal?

Because Greg and I don’t have a house in realtime anymore where we can throw a party and invite everyone we’d love to have there. And even if we did, not everyone could come. (It’s much cheaper to commute in cyberspace these days.) So, here’s our new house party and you're invited to revel in the dancing on the kitchen table or the fucking in the closet or the fighting on the front lawn.

It’s kind of like a kinkier, dorkier, queer-er version of Hugh Hefner’s old Playboy After Dark TV series meets the rancid right’s Free Republic (NSFW or NSFRT—not safe for rational thinkers)—but without that embarrassing rancid right smell.

So, if you want to know the secret connection between Camille Paglia, South Ossetia, and the Jonas Brothers, Invert(e) is the place to read all about it and become enlightened. Or a great place to find the recipe for McCain-endorsement-free homemade lube to use on your next Manhunt.net outing. Normalcy makeover tips? Ms and Ms and Ms Bigfoot sightings from the astral plane? And photos confirming the plane was flown by Rachel Maddow? We’ve got it all here!