Che Gossett | |
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Born | Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Writer and archivist |
Known for | Queer and transgender studies |
Family | Tourmaline (sister) |
Che Gossett is a trans femme writer, scholar, and archivist.[1] They have written extensively on black and trans visibility, black trans aesthetics,[2][3][4] racial capitalism,[5][6] and queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition.[7]
Gossett grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts with their twin, Katlin 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]
They have published their writing in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility,[13] Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment,[14] Transgender Studies Reader,[15] The Scholar & Feminist Online,[16] Los Angeles Review of Books,[17] and Frieze.[18][19] 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.[20][21][22][23][24]
From 2014 to 2022, Gossett served as the Community Archivist and Student Coordinator at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.[25][9]
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] They also serve as the Associate Director for UPenn's Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies.[27]