Your donation to QGCon helps us run future Queerness and Games-themed events!  QGCon is a registered nonprofit in Canada.  We strive to compensate contributors (creators, speakers, and so on) whenever we can. Most of our spending has historically gone to travel grants, honoraria and food for people who help us make our events possible. We also have ongoing costs for software and services that help keep QGCon going.  <a href="https://www.qgcon.org/2025" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank">QGCon 2025</a> will happen September 26-28 2025!  Thanks for your help!  --- <div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(97, 97, 97);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.5"><h2>Mission Statement</h2>The QGCon Collective is a registered nonprofit that runs inclusive events at the intersection of queerness and games. We serve an international community of 2SLGBTQIA+ researchers, game industry workers, artists, activists, students, and players. Our efforts focus on queer people who experience multiple kinds of marginalization, including (among others) those based on race or ethnicity, disability, class, citizenship, and body size. The QGCon Collective is made up of organizers from all over the world and is headquartered in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Our purpose is to facilitate and nourish connections between marginalized thinkers and creators who work in, with, and through games, to further education on 2SLGBTQIA+ topics of concern, provide community, and support queer joy and resilience. The community we serve is diasporic, diverse, and highly intersectional, and QGCon creates a space for dynamic cross-pollination between individuals and groups that might otherwise never have connected. To do this, we provide direct support to queer thinkers and creators via opportunities to showcase their work, network with others who share similar values and concerns, and learn from some of the most visionary minds in queer games. Our past activities have included conferences, game jams, workshops, carnivals, networking events, and more. At a time when a shifting social climate and mass layoffs within the industry have created renewed challenges for our community, we believe that QGCon can be a part of how we support each other through times like these. We aim to build bridges across identities, borders, and fields to concretely improve the lives of queer people.</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:30px;color:rgb(97, 97, 97);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:1.5"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(97, 97, 97);text-decoration:none;user-select:auto" target="_blank"></a><h2>About This Cause</h2>The Queerness and Games Collective is a registered not-for-profit organization in Quebec, Canada. We run community-oriented, internationally-recognized events (QGCons) dedicated to inclusion and intersectional issues in scholarship and the arts. The work that QGCon organizers and community members are engaged in is part of a historical moment confronting oppression, systemic sexism and racism in our institutions and industries. The conference has helped create the field of queer game studies, bringing the central players of this field to the institutions where it takes place. Held at UC Berkeley in 2013, the first QGCon was a small, scrappy celebration of queer gamemaking by artists, academics and activists, bringing together game developers, scholars, and players who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. Since then, we have hosted events in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Montreal, with attendees from across the game industry, academia, and beyond, including merritt k, Avery Alder, Robert Yang, Mattie Brice, and Naomi Clark. We have also hosted influential scholars, from queer and feminist theorists like Bo Ruberg, Jack Halberstam, and Lisa Nakamura to media critics like Katherine Cross and Austin Walker. Over the years, QGCon has become a center of the influential and growing queer games community. The conversations at QGCon stretch across academic disciplines and industry, joining scholars, award-winning designers, artists, activists, practitioners, and community members in foundational discussions about identity and diversity in digital media. After five years of remote events, QGCon 2025 is thrilled to return, in-person and online, on September 26-28 in Montreal. Mindful of the ongoing pandemic, at QGCon 2025 we will do as much as we can to protect the health of our participants, including immunocompromised and disabled stakeholders, minimizing the spread of COVID-19 by leveraging pandemic safety best practices, requiring participants to wear N-95 or KN-95 masks indoors (or their equivalent, or better), and ensuring adequate air ventilation and filtration. By sponsoring QGCon, you are supporting queer creative work at a time when 2SLGBTQIA+ people’s hard-fought rights and recognition are increasingly under threat. Amidst so many challenges, queer scholars and developers continue to do vital, interesting work to advance the medium and expand understanding. Given this context, queer perspectives and community are more important now than ever. If you want to help QGCon empower queer voices as we prepare to return in 2025, please donate or reach out to become a sponsor.</div>

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Your donation to QGCon helps us run future Queerness and Games-themed events!  QGCon is a registered nonprofit in Canada.  We strive to compensate contributors (creators, speakers, and so on) whenever we can. Most of our spending has historically gone to travel grants, honoraria and food for people who help us make our events possible. We also have ongoing costs for software and services that help keep QGCon going.  <a href="https://www.qgcon.org/2025" target="_blank">QGCon 2025</a> will happen September 26-28 2025!  Thanks for your help!  --- <div>Mission StatementThe QGCon Collective is a registered nonprofit that runs inclusive events at the intersection of queerness and games. We serve an international community of 2SLGBTQIA+ researchers, game industry workers, artists, activists, students, and players. Our efforts focus on queer people who experience multiple kinds of marginalization, including (among others) those based on race or ethnicity, disability, class, citizenship, and body size. The QGCon Collective is made up of organizers from all over the world and is headquartered in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Our purpose is to facilitate and nourish connections between marginalized thinkers and creators who work in, with, and through games, to further education on 2SLGBTQIA+ topics of concern, provide community, and support queer joy and resilience. The community we serve is diasporic, diverse, and highly intersectional, and QGCon creates a space for dynamic cross-pollination between individuals and groups that might otherwise never have connected. To do this, we provide direct support to queer thinkers and creators via opportunities to showcase their work, network with others who share similar values and concerns, and learn from some of the most visionary minds in queer games. Our past activities have included conferences, game jams, workshops, carnivals, networking events, and more. At a time when a shifting social climate and mass layoffs within the industry have created renewed challenges for our community, we believe that QGCon can be a part of how we support each other through times like these. We aim to build bridges across identities, borders, and fields to concretely improve the lives of queer people.</div><div><a target="_blank"></a>About This CauseThe Queerness and Games Collective is a registered not-for-profit organization in Quebec, Canada. We run community-oriented, internationally-recognized events (QGCons) dedicated to inclusion and intersectional issues in scholarship and the arts. The work that QGCon organizers and community members are engaged in is part of a historical moment confronting oppression, systemic sexism and racism in our institutions and industries. The conference has helped create the field of queer game studies, bringing the central players of this field to the institutions where it takes place. Held at UC Berkeley in 2013, the first QGCon was a small, scrappy celebration of queer gamemaking by artists, academics and activists, bringing together game developers, scholars, and players who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. Since then, we have hosted events in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Montreal, with attendees from across the game industry, academia, and beyond, including merritt k, Avery Alder, Robert Yang, Mattie Brice, and Naomi Clark. We have also hosted influential scholars, from queer and feminist theorists like Bo Ruberg, Jack Halberstam, and Lisa Nakamura to media critics like Katherine Cross and Austin Walker. Over the years, QGCon has become a center of the influential and growing queer games community. The conversations at QGCon stretch across academic disciplines and industry, joining scholars, award-winning designers, artists, activists, practitioners, and community members in foundational discussions about identity and diversity in digital media. After five years of remote events, QGCon 2025 is thrilled to return, in-person and online, on September 26-28 in Montreal. Mindful of the ongoing pandemic, at QGCon 2025 we will do as much as we can to protect the health of our participants, including immunocompromised and disabled stakeholders, minimizing the spread of COVID-19 by leveraging pandemic safety best practices, requiring participants to wear N-95 or KN-95 masks indoors (or their equivalent, or better), and ensuring adequate air ventilation and filtration. By sponsoring QGCon, you are supporting queer creative work at a time when 2SLGBTQIA+ people’s hard-fought rights and recognition are increasingly under threat. Amidst so many challenges, queer scholars and developers continue to do vital, interesting work to advance the medium and expand understanding. Given this context, queer perspectives and community are more important now than ever. If you want to help QGCon empower queer voices as we prepare to return in 2025, please donate or reach out to become a sponsor.</div>

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