Rhodes College Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

03/30/2026

The 23rd annual GSS Symposium will take place on April 9th from 3pm - 7pm. Below is the schedule. Please stop by!

04/08/2025

Annual GSS Symposium this Thursday 3:30 - 7:30! Join us for some or all of this event.

04/08/2025

Congrats to this year's inductees to Tri Iota! Great event today!

05/25/2023

We are so excited to announce the third event in our series DIVERSITY OF THE DELTA and to be hosting Dr. Shaolu Yu! We cannot wait for May 25th!

01/26/2022

Y OU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO:
A screening of
Tain't Nobody's Bizness: Q***r Blues Divas of the 1920s
A documentary by Robert Phillipson, narrated by Jewelle Gomez
Followed by a discussion facilitated by Rhodes profs Dr. Tyler Fritts (MUS) and Dr. Joy Brooke Fairfield (MST) and featuring local musician and activist JORDAN OCCASIONALLY
Thursday January 27th 6pm - 7:30 PM

04/15/2021

Students - Dr. Fairfield's "Acting and Activism in the Americas" class has an F5 and and F9 attribute, fulfills the 20x requirement for the new major, and is also an elective for the Latin American and Latinx Studies program. Consider it when you're setting up your tree!

10/07/2020

Art as Activism Panel! Tuesday, October 13th at 6:00pm via Zoom, link in comments.

07/10/2020

Rhodes College is taking action to oppose the new ICE guidelines that attempt to exclude international students from their education access.

Rhodes stands with our international students and opposes the new federal guidelines that unfairly target them.
In addition to working with our impacted students one-on-one and providing flexible enrollment options, Rhodes joined an amicus brief yesterday in support of Harvard and MIT's lawsuit opposing the new ICE Student Exchange and Visitor Program rules.

07/06/2020

The GSS program supports our Rhodes students and alumni arrested during the ongoing protests at Memphis City Hall last week. Civil Disobedience is an integral, effective political performance tradition that has been practiced in Memphis with significant potency for generations. Young people, particularly young people of color and young q***r & trans people - are often the ones brave enough to face state violence head-on, even during a pandemic, and we applaud their commitment to pushing for change in our community and nation by putting their own bodies on the line.

Protesters have camped outside the Memphis City Hall since June 16. The city said the move was necessary to allow for construction.

06/04/2020

The Rhodes program in Gender and Sexuality Studies unequivocally supports Black Lives and Black Liberation. If you'd like more information on getting involved in the actions happening here in Memphis, feel free to contact Dr. Fairfield