Five college queer gender and Sexuality Conference
About the Conference
The Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference, affectionately called QueerConf or The Queer Conference, is a non-profit and free to attend conference that aims to offer an accountable and supportive environment to explore a wide range of topics and their intersections, such as race, genders, sexualities, disability, class, kink, religion, and survival strategies in a specifically queer context.
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This year will be the 12th Annual conference and it will take place on the afternoons and evenings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 5th, 6th and 7th, 2021.
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Presenters include Five College (Hampshire College, UMass Amherst, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, & Amherst College) students, faculty and staff, off-campus educators, and nationally-known performers, activists, speakers, and scholars. The conference is meant to be a safer space for engaging, learning, and fostering community. We are always looking for ways to adapt and improve, with the intention of remaining an annual event, and we welcome your feedback and participation in future organizing.
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As we celebrate 12 years of supporting, empowering, and entertaining our community through our Conference, we are grateful for the tremendous level of support we receive from students, faculty, staff and administration throughout the Five College Consortium. We are committed to making this wonderful conference accessible, and are able to offer this as a free public event because of the generosity and dedication of volunteers and donors from the Five Colleges and beyond. Starting as a single day conference in 2009, we have grown into a full three-day event that attracts attendees from communities all over the Northeast U.S. and beyond.
​From all of the Queer Conference Organizers, THANK YOU for supporting our Conference! You are the reason we do this work, and we are so excited to build and grow with you all at our 12th Annual Five College Queer Gender & Sexuality Conference.
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In Solidarity,
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The 2021 Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Organizers