About Princeton QT-Con
The Gender + Sexuality Resource Center will be hosting Princeton’s Queer + Trans Conference (QT-Con) from October 23 - 26, 2025. Princeton QT-Con is a conference that highlights academic knowledge, lived experiences, passion projects, and creative works that celebrate queer and trans perspectives. We are excited about cultivating a vibrant space that brings together a diverse group of students, academics, alum, practitioners, community leaders, and others with the goals of sharing knowledge, building community, creating joy, and supporting well-being.
Princeton QT-Con is intentionally designed to drive Princeton's mission of establishing an environment that welcomes, supports, and engages students, faculty, and staff with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. Everyone is welcome at QT-Con!
In centering the university's commitment to preparing students for lives of service, civic engagement, and ethical leadership, we are especially excited to invite students, faculty, and staff from other New Jersey universities, as well as community members from local non-profits, to attend QT-Con. This will give Princeton students the opportunity to engage across broader communities. Continuing in our mission to build bridges between our home university and other New Jersey higher ed institutions, we are grateful to the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity for sponsoring an Aspiring Scholars & Professionals Intern to work with the GSCR on QT-Con.
Please note, sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented
About QT-Con 2025
Annually, QT-Con identifies a theme that unifies the way we build knowledge, community, joy, and well-being. During QT-Con 2025 our theme will be:
“The Stories We Tell: Exploring Queer + Trans Stories of the 21st Century”
This year our theme draws inspiration from narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research method that centers storytelling as a means to learn more about specific communities and people. Historically, narrative inquiry has been especially useful to learn more about communities who have experienced marginalization in society. By utilizing storytelling as method researchers and practitioners subsequently center the direct voices of the communities and people they hope to uplift through their work.
This year we invite individuals to submit conference proposals that explore queer and trans stories of the 21st century. We especially encourage proposals that explore questions such as:
What does it mean to be Queer + Trans (QT) in the 21st century?
What does thriving mean and look like for QT communities in the 21st century?
What methods can we use to preserve and tell QT stories?
How are the stories we tell about QT experiences influenced by our shared past?
How can we connect QT histories and stories to current and future communities?
Conference proposals can be submitted by anyone from within and beyond the Princeton University community. We especially encourage conference proposals from undergraduate students, graduate students, alumni, and community partners.
The conference proposal form will be released in Spring 2025, please return periodically for updates
QT-Con is a program organized by the Gender + Sexuality Resource Center and other Princeton University units + community partners. Specific questions or concerns regarding QT-Con can be directed to Alex Rosado-Torres, associate director of the Gender + Sexuality Resource Center.