Che Gossett

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]

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 to 2024, Gossett was the racial justice postdoctoral scholar at the Initiative for a Just Society, Columbia Law School.^[14] From 2022 to 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]

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]

• Visiting Scholar, Art History department, Corpus Christi College^[32] and Centre for Visual Culture,^[33] University of Cambridge (2023)
• Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Life Writing (2023)^[34]
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association (2014)^[35]
• Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York (2014)^[36]
• Martin Duberman Research Scholar Award from the New York Public Library (2014)
• 2017-2018 Queer Arts Mentor^[37]
• Helena Rubenstein Fellow, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2019-2020)^[16]
• Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia Law School (2021-2024)^{[38] [11]}
• Art Journal Award for Distinction, College Art Association (2022)^{[39] [29]}
• Ruth Stephan Fellow, Beinecke Library, Yale University (2022)^[16]
• Animal Law and Policy Program Fellow, Harvard Law School (2022-2024)^[16]

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• Writers from Massachusetts
• American transgender writers
• 21st-century American LGBTQ people
• American non-binary writers
• People from Roxbury, Boston
• Archivists
• LGBTQ archivists
• 21st-century African-American academics
• 21st-century American academics
• African-American non-fiction writers

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