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Che Gossett
Born
Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer and archivist
Known forQueer and transgender studies
FamilyTourmaline (sister)

Che Gossett is an American writer, scholar, and archivist.[1] They have written extensively on black and trans visibility, black trans aesthetics,[2][3][4] capitalism,[5][6] and queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition.[7]

Early life and education

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Gossett grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts with their twin, Caitlin and their sibling, activist and filmmaker Tourmaline.[8][9] Their mother was a union organizer and their father was a Vietnam War veteran and former member of the Memphis-based activist group, The Invaders.[10][9]

Gossett attended Rafael Hernandez Elementary School and Nativity Preparatory School as a child, and attended River's Country Day High School before ultimately graduating from New Mission High School. As a teen, Gossett participated in youth conferences and HIV peer education.[9]

After graduating from high school, they attended Morehouse College and graduated with their BA in African American studies in 2003.[11] Gossett also received an MAT from Brown University in 2004, and an MA in History from the University in Pennsylvania in 2010.[11] They received their Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University in 2021.[12]

From 2014 to 2019, Gossett served as the Community Archivist and Student Coordinator at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.[13][9] From 2021-2024, Gossett was the racial justice postdoctoral scholar at the Initiative for a Just Society, Columbia Law School.[14] From 2022-2024 Gossett was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, in the Animal Law and Policy Program.[15] They are currently the Associate Director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[16]

Publications and Lectures

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They have published their writing in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility,[17] Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment,[18] Transgender Studies Reader,[19] The Scholar & Feminist Online,[20] Los Angeles Review of Books,[21] and Frieze.[22][23] Gossett has lectured and performed at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum and A.I.R. Gallery.[24][25][26][27][28]

In 2023, Gossett joined the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University as a Scholar in Residence and graduate seminar instructor in critical race theory.[29][16] Che has co-edited a special issue of TSQ  journal "Trans in a Time of HIV/AIDS" with Professor Eva Hayward,[30] and their syllabus on trans and non-binary methods for art and art history co-authored with Professor David Getsy won the College Art Journal Award for Distinction.[31]

Fellowships and awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Che Gossett". Che Gossett. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  2. ^ "Atlantic is a Sea of Bones: Black trans aesthetics and…". Visual AIDS. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  3. ^ "Che Gossett & Reina Gossett: Trans Archives, Trans Activism". Vimeo. 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  4. ^ "Queering the Body | Makeup Musings with Che Gossett". Fluide. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  5. ^ "Che Gossett: Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign". Versobooks.com. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  6. ^ Hamburg, Stadtkuratorin (2016-07-04), Che Gossett, Entanglement: Racial Capitalism, Animality and Abolition, retrieved 2019-03-16
  7. ^ Ojeda-Sague, Gabriel (2017). Jin Haritaworn; Adi Kuntsman; Silvia Posocco (eds.). "Queers against Death". Journal of Modern Literature. 40 (3): 181–185. doi:10.2979/jmodelite.40.3.16. ISSN 0022-281X. JSTOR 10.2979/jmodelite.40.3.16. S2CID 164667006.
  8. ^ "Interview with Che and Reina Gossett". Mask Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  9. ^ a b c d O'Brien, Michelle Esther (December 1, 2021). "Interview of Che Gossett". NYC Trans Oral History Project. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  10. ^ Milovina, Tal (January 21, 2023). "Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline". The Nation. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  11. ^ a b c Gossett, Che. "Che Gossett, Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, IJS". Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  12. ^ "Che Gossett | Contemporary Critical Thought". cccct.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  13. ^ "Welcome Che Gossett: BCRW's Community Archivist and Student Coordinator". Barnard Center for Research on Women. October 30, 2014. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  14. ^ "Che Gossett | The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's StudiesThe Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies". gsws.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  15. ^ "Che Gossett". Harvard Law School - ALPP. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  16. ^ a b c d e "FQT/GSWS Welcomes Che Gossett!". The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. July 10, 2023. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  17. ^ "Trap Door". The MIT Press. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  18. ^ Stanley, Eric A.; Mitchell, Nick; Gossett, Che; Ben-Moshe, Liat (2015-04-01). Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture. Fordham University Press. doi:10.5422/fordham/9780823265299.001.0001. ISBN 9780823266685.
  19. ^ "The Transgender Studies Reader 2: 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  20. ^ "Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, Gender-Nonconforming, and Transgender Resistance to Police Violence". S&F Online. 6 April 2012. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  21. ^ Gossett, Che (13 September 2016). "Žižek's Trans/gender Trouble". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  22. ^ Gossett, Che (13 February 2019). "How Artist Bruce Nauman Plays at the Edges of the Human". Frieze (201). Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  23. ^ Gossett, Che (2 May 2018). "'Photography Makes Me Look Within': a Tribute to Laura Aguilar (1959–2018)". Frieze (220). Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  24. ^ The Museum of Modern Art (2019-03-02), 2019 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Art + Feminism | MoMA LIVE, retrieved 2019-03-16
  25. ^ "Talking Nauman | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  26. ^ "Study Sessions: Che Gossett". whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  27. ^ "Discussing the Realities and Risks of Transgender Visibility". Hyperallergic. 2018-02-08. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  28. ^ Steinhauer, Jillian (2018-08-22). "Review: A.I.R. Gallery Catches Up on Some Unfinished Business". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  29. ^ a b "Announcing Che Gossett As Scholar In Residence". Pacific Northwest College of Art. June 15, 2023. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  30. ^ Castro-Rappl, Jessica (2021-03-03). ""Trans in a Time of HIV/AIDS": A Q&A with Editors Eva Hayward & Che Gossett". Duke University Press News. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  31. ^ Association, College Art (2022-01-24). "CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction". CAA News | College Art Association. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  32. ^ Grove, M. L. R. (2022-09-22). "Dr Che Gossett". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  33. ^ "Dr Che Gossett - CVC". CVC - Cambridge Visual Culture. 2022-12-07. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
  34. ^ "Che Gossett". oclw.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  35. ^ Kuester, Cassidy (2018-01-31). "Award-winning author Che Gossett speaks at NMSU on challenging oppression". NMSU Round Up. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  36. ^ "Fellowships and Awards – CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies". Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  37. ^ "QAM 2017-2018 Bios". QUEER | ART. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  38. ^ "'Temporary Fabulous Zones': Che Gossett and Wu Tsang in conversation". The Courtauld. November 11, 2021. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
  39. ^ "CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction". College Art Association. January 24, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
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