In its first iteration, Queer MiniCon will feature two days of seventeen presentations chosen by representatives from sponsoring UNC-Chapel Hill departments on LGBTQIA+ affirming research, lived experiences, passion projects, and creative expression. UNC System students, faculty, staff, and postdocs will queer (that is to say, deconstruct or question assumptions around) everything from social network mapping technologies, in Katelyn Campbell's "Lesbian Connections: Critical Social Network Mapping and Queer Archival Methods;" to self-perception and dream environments in Sergio Jiminez's "blue-light-being;" and conventional ideas about masculinity within…