Che Gossett Explained

Che Gossett
Caption:Gossett in 2019
Birth Place:Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation:Writer and archivist
Known For:Queer and transgender studies
Family:Tourmaline (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] and queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition.[6]

Early life and education

Gossett grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts with their twin, Caitlin and their sibling, activist and filmmaker Tourmaline.[7] [8] 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.[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.

After graduating from high school, they attended Morehouse College and graduated with their BA in African American studies in 2003.[10] Gossett also received an MAT from Brown University in 2004, and an MA in History from the University in Pennsylvania in 2010. They received their Doctorate in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University in 2021.[11]

From 2014 to 2019, Gossett served as the Community Archivist and Student Coordinator at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.[12] From 2021-2024, Gossett was the racial justice postdoctoral scholar at the Initiative for a Just Society, Columbia Law School.[13] From 2022-2024 Gossett was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, in the Animal Law and Policy Program.[14] They are currently the Associate Director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications and Lectures

They have published their writing in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility,[15] Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment,[16] Transgender Studies Reader,[17] The Scholar & Feminist Online,[18] Los Angeles Review of Books,[19] and Frieze.[20] [21] 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.[22] [23] [24] [25]

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.[26] [27] Che has co-edited a special issue of TSQ  journal "Trans in a Time of HIV/AIDS" with Professor Eva Hayward,[28] 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.[29]

Fellowships and awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Che Gossett . Che Gossett . en . 2019-03-16 .
  2. Web site: Atlantic is a Sea of Bones: Black trans aesthetics and… . Visual AIDS . en-US . 2019-03-16 . 2019-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190330044052/https://visualaids.org/blog/atlantic-is-a-sea-of-bones-black-trans-in-aesthetics-and-the-cinematic-imag . dead .
  3. Web site: Che Gossett & Reina Gossett: Trans Archives, Trans Activism . Vimeo . en . 2019-03-16 . 2014-11-26 .
  4. Web site: Queering the Body Makeup Musings with Che Gossett. Fluide. 2019-03-16.
  5. Web site: Che Gossett: Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign . Versobooks.com . 2019-03-16 .
  6. Ojeda-Sague . Gabriel . 2017 . Jin Haritaworn . Adi Kuntsman . Silvia Posocco . Queers against Death . Journal of Modern Literature . 40 . 3 . 181–185 . 10.2979/jmodelite.40.3.16 . 0022-281X . 10.2979/jmodelite.40.3.16 . 164667006 .
  7. Web site: Interview with Che and Reina Gossett . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170724075352/http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-crossing-paths-issue/life/che-and-reina-gossett . 2017-07-24 . 2019-03-16 . Mask Magazine . en.
  8. Web site: O'Brien . Michelle Esther . December 1, 2021 . Interview of Che Gossett . September 7, 2023 . NYC Trans Oral History Project.
  9. Web site: Milovina . Tal . January 21, 2023 . Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline . September 7, 2023 . The Nation.
  10. Web site: Gossett . Che . Che Gossett, Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, IJS . September 7, 2023 . Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.
  11. Web site: Che Gossett Contemporary Critical Thought . 2021-11-13 . cccct.law.columbia.edu.
  12. Web site: October 30, 2014 . Welcome Che Gossett: BCRW's Community Archivist and Student Coordinator . September 7, 2023 . Barnard Center for Research on Women.
  13. Web site: Che Gossett The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s StudiesThe Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies . 2024-07-31 . gsws.sas.upenn.edu.
  14. Web site: Che Gossett . 2024-07-31 . Harvard Law School - ALPP . en-US.
  15. Web site: Trap Door . 2019-03-16 . The MIT Press . en.
  16. Book: Stanley . Eric A. . Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture . Mitchell . Nick . Gossett . Che . Ben-Moshe . Liat . 2015-04-01 . Fordham University Press . 9780823266685 . en-US . 10.5422/fordham/9780823265299.001.0001.
  17. Web site: The Transgender Studies Reader 2: 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge . 2019-03-16 . Routledge.com . en.
  18. Web site: 6 April 2012 . Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, Gender-Nonconforming, and Transgender Resistance to Police Violence . 2019-03-16 . S&F Online . en-US.
  19. Web site: Gossett . Che . 13 September 2016 . Žižek's Trans/gender Trouble . 2019-03-16 . Los Angeles Review of Books.
  20. Gossett . Che . 13 February 2019 . How Artist Bruce Nauman Plays at the Edges of the Human . Frieze . en . 201 . 2019-03-16.
  21. Gossett . Che . 2 May 2018 . 'Photography Makes Me Look Within': a Tribute to Laura Aguilar (1959–2018) . Frieze . en . 220 . 2019-03-16.
  22. Web site: Talking Nauman MoMA . 2019-03-16 . The Museum of Modern Art . en.
  23. Web site: Study Sessions: Che Gossett . 2019-03-16 . whitney.org . en.
  24. Web site: 2018-02-08 . Discussing the Realities and Risks of Transgender Visibility . 2019-03-16 . Hyperallergic . en-US.
  25. News: Steinhauer . Jillian . 2018-08-22 . Review: A.I.R. Gallery Catches Up on Some Unfinished Business . en-US . The New York Times . 2019-03-16 . 0362-4331.
  26. Web site: June 15, 2023 . Announcing Che Gossett As Scholar In Residence . September 7, 2023 . Pacific Northwest College of Art.
  27. Web site: July 10, 2023 . FQT/GSWS Welcomes Che Gossett! . September 7, 2023 . The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.
  28. Web site: Castro-Rappl . Jessica . 2021-03-03 . “Trans in a Time of HIV/AIDS”: A Q&A with Editors Eva Hayward & Che Gossett . 2024-07-31 . Duke University Press News . en.
  29. Web site: Association . College Art . 2022-01-24 . CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction . 2024-07-31 . CAA News College Art Association . en.
  30. Web site: Grove . M. L. R. . 2022-09-22 . Dr Che Gossett . 2024-07-31 . www.hoart.cam.ac.uk . en.
  31. Web site: 2022-12-07 . Dr Che Gossett - CVC . 2024-07-31 . CVC - Cambridge Visual Culture . EN.
  32. Web site: Che Gossett . 2023-02-21 . oclw.web.ox.ac.uk . en.
  33. Web site: Kuester . Cassidy . 2018-01-31 . Award-winning author Che Gossett speaks at NMSU on challenging oppression . 2019-03-16 . NMSU Round Up.
  34. Web site: Fellowships and Awards – CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies . 2019-03-16 . en-US.
  35. Web site: QAM 2017-2018 Bios . 2019-03-16 . QUEER ART . en-US.
  36. Web site: November 11, 2021 . 'Temporary Fabulous Zones': Che Gossett and Wu Tsang in conversation . September 7, 2023 . The Courtauld.
  37. Web site: January 24, 2022 . CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction . September 7, 2023 . College Art Association.

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