en:Che Gossett
{{Short description|American writer, scholar, and archivist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Che Gossett
| image = Artist Che Gossett 2019.jpg
| 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.{{Cite web |url = https://chegossett.wordpress.com/ |title = Che Gossett |website = Che Gossett |language = en |access-date = 2019-03-16 }} They have written extensively on black and trans visibility, black trans aesthetics,{{Cite web |url = https://visualaids.org/blog/atlantic-is-a-sea-of-bones-black-trans-in-aesthetics-and-the-cinematic-imag |title = Atlantic is a Sea of Bones: Black trans aesthetics and… |website = Visual AIDS |language = en-US |access-date = 2019-03-16 |archive-date = 2019-03-30 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190330044052/https://visualaids.org/blog/atlantic-is-a-sea-of-bones-black-trans-in-aesthetics-and-the-cinematic-imag |url-status = dead }}{{Cite web |url = https://vimeo.com/112907198 |title = Che Gossett & Reina Gossett: Trans Archives, Trans Activism |website = Vimeo |language = en |access-date = 2019-03-16 |date = 2014-11-26 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.fluide.us/blogs/futurefluide/che-gossett-on-queering-the-body|title=Queering the Body {{!}} Makeup Musings with Che Gossett|website=Fluide|access-date=2019-03-16}} capitalism,{{Cite web |url = https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2228-che-gossett-blackness-animality-and-the-unsovereign |title = Che Gossett: Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign |website = Versobooks.com |access-date = 2019-03-16 }}{{Citation |last = Hamburg |first = Stadtkuratorin |title = Che Gossett, Entanglement: Racial Capitalism, Animality and Abolition |date = 2016-07-04 |url = https://vimeo.com/173366659 |access-date = 2019-03-16 }} and queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition.{{Cite journal |last = Ojeda-Sague |first = Gabriel |date = 2017 |editor1 = Jin Haritaworn |editor2 = Adi Kuntsman |editor3 = Silvia Posocco |title = Queers against Death |journal = Journal of Modern Literature |volume = 40 |issue = 3 |pages = 181–185 |doi = 10.2979/jmodelite.40.3.16 |issn = 0022-281X |jstor = 10.2979/jmodelite.40.3.16 |s2cid = 164667006 }}
Early life and education
Gossett grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts, with their twin, Caitlin, and their sibling, activist and filmmaker Tourmaline.{{Cite web |title=Interview with Che and Reina Gossett |url=http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-crossing-paths-issue/life/che-and-reina-gossett |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724075352/http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-crossing-paths-issue/life/che-and-reina-gossett |archive-date=2017-07-24 |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=Mask Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=O'Brien |first=Michelle Esther |date=December 1, 2021 |title=Interview of Che Gossett |url=https://nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/che-gossett/ |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=NYC Trans Oral History Project}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Milovina |first=Tal |date=January 21, 2023 |title=Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tourmaline-pleasure-garden-profile/ |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=The Nation}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Gossett |first=Che |title=Che Gossett, Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, IJS |url=https://cccct.law.columbia.edu/people/che-gossett |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Che Gossett {{!}} Contemporary Critical Thought |url=https://cccct.law.columbia.edu/people/che-gossett |access-date=2021-11-13 |website=cccct.law.columbia.edu}}
From 2014 to 2019, Gossett served as the Community Archivist and Student Coordinator at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.{{Cite web |date=October 30, 2014 |title=Welcome Che Gossett: BCRW's Community Archivist and Student Coordinator |url=https://bcrw.barnard.edu/welcome-che-gossett-bcrws-community-archivist-and-student-coordinator/ |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=Barnard Center for Research on Women}} From 2021 to 2024, Gossett was the racial justice postdoctoral scholar at the Initiative for a Just Society, Columbia Law School.{{Cite web |title=Che Gossett {{!}} The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's StudiesThe Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies |url=https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/che-gossett |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=gsws.sas.upenn.edu}} From 2022 to 2024 Gossett was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, in the Animal Law and Policy Program.{{Cite web |title=Che Gossett |url=https://animal.law.harvard.edu/team-member/che-gossett/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Harvard Law School - ALPP |language=en-US}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Trap Door |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/trap-door |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=The MIT Press |language=en}} Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment,{{Cite book |last1=Stanley |first1=Eric A. |title=Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture |last2=Mitchell |first2=Nick |last3=Gossett |first3=Che |last4=Ben-Moshe |first4=Liat |date=2015-04-01 |publisher=Fordham University Press |isbn=9780823266685 |language=en-US |doi=10.5422/fordham/9780823265299.001.0001}} Transgender Studies Reader,{{Cite web |title=The Transgender Studies Reader 2: 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge |url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Transgender-Studies-Reader-2-1st-Edition/Stryker-Aizura/p/book/9780415517737 |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=Routledge.com |language=en}} The Scholar & Feminist Online,{{Cite web |date=6 April 2012 |title=Reclaiming Our Lineage: Organized Queer, Gender-Nonconforming, and Transgender Resistance to Police Violence |url=http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/reclaiming-our-lineage-organized-queer-gender-nonconforming-and-transgender-resistance-to-police-violence/ |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=S&F Online |language=en-US}} Los Angeles Review of Books,{{Cite web |last=Gossett |first=Che |date=13 September 2016 |title=Žižek's Trans/gender Trouble |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/zizeks-transgender-trouble/ |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}} and Frieze.{{Cite journal |last1=Gossett |first1=Che |date=13 February 2019 |title=How Artist Bruce Nauman Plays at the Edges of the Human |url=https://frieze.com/article/how-artist-bruce-nauman-plays-edges-human |journal=Frieze |language=en |issue=201 |access-date=2019-03-16}}{{Cite journal |last1=Gossett |first1=Che |date=2 May 2018 |title='Photography Makes Me Look Within': a Tribute to Laura Aguilar (1959–2018) |url=https://frieze.com/article/photography-makes-me-look-within-tribute-laura-aguilar-1959-2018 |journal=Frieze |language=en |issue=220 |access-date=2019-03-16}} 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.{{Citation |last=The Museum of Modern Art |title=2019 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Art + Feminism {{!}} MoMA LIVE |date=2019-03-02 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLbmVmLrblw |access-date=2019-03-16}}{{Cite web |title=Talking Nauman {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4813 |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Study Sessions: Che Gossett |url=https://whitney.org/Events/StudySessionsCheGossett |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=whitney.org |language=en |archive-date=2019-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190313211119/https://whitney.org/Events/StudySessionsCheGossett |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |date=2018-02-08 |title=Discussing the Realities and Risks of Transgender Visibility |url=https://hyperallergic.com/425068/trap-door-transgender-visibility-new-museum/ |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Steinhauer |first=Jillian |date=2018-08-22 |title=Review: A.I.R. Gallery Catches Up on Some Unfinished Business |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/arts/design/dialectics-of-entanglement-gallery-review.html |access-date=2019-03-16 |issn=0362-4331}}
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.{{Cite web |date=June 15, 2023 |title=Announcing Che Gossett As Scholar In Residence |url=https://pnca.willamette.edu/news/grad/cs/announcing-che-gossett-as-scholar-in-residence |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=Pacific Northwest College of Art}}{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2023 |title=FQT/GSWS Welcomes Che Gossett! |url=https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/news/2023/07/10/fqt/gsws-welcomes-che-gossett |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies}} Che has co-edited a special issue of TSQ journal "Trans in a Time of HIV/AIDS" with Professor Eva Hayward,{{Cite web |last=Castro-Rappl |first=Jessica |date=2021-03-03 |title="Trans in a Time of HIV/AIDS": A Q&A with Editors Eva Hayward & Che Gossett |url=https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/trans-in-a-time-of-hiv-aids-a-qa-with-editors-che-gossett-eva-hayward/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Duke University Press News |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Association |first=College Art |date=2022-01-24 |title=CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction |url=https://www.collegeart.org/news/2022/01/24/caa-2022-awards-for-distinction/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=CAA News {{!}} College Art Association |language=en}}
Fellowships and awards
- Visiting Scholar, Art History department, Corpus Christi College{{Cite web |last=Grove |first=M. L. R. |date=2022-09-22 |title=Dr Che Gossett |url=https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-che-gossett |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.hoart.cam.ac.uk |language=en}} and Centre for Visual Culture,{{Cite web |date=2022-12-07 |title=Dr Che Gossett - CVC |url=https://www.cvc.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-che-gossett/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=CVC - Cambridge Visual Culture |language=EN}} University of Cambridge (2023)
- Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Life Writing (2023){{Cite web |title=Che Gossett |url=https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/people/che-gossett |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=oclw.web.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association (2014){{Cite web |last=Kuester |first=Cassidy |date=2018-01-31 |title=Award-winning author Che Gossett speaks at NMSU on challenging oppression |url=https://nmsuroundup.com/8347/showcase/lgbt-programs-brings-che-gossett-award-winning-author-speak-diversity-challenging-oppression/ |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=NMSU Round Up}}
- Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York (2014){{Cite web |title=Fellowships and Awards – CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies |url=https://clags.org/fellowships-and-awards3/ |access-date=2019-03-16 |language=en-US}}
- Martin Duberman Research Scholar Award from the New York Public Library (2014)
- 2017-2018 Queer Arts Mentor{{Cite web |title=QAM 2017-2018 Bios |url=http://www.queer-art.org/qam-2017-2018-bios |access-date=2019-03-16 |website=QUEER {{!}} ART |language=en-US}}
- Helena Rubenstein Fellow, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (2019-2020)
- Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia Law School (2021-2024){{Cite web |date=November 11, 2021 |title='Temporary Fabulous Zones': Che Gossett and Wu Tsang in conversation |url=https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/temporary-fabulous-zones-che-gossett-and-wu-tsang-in-conversation/ |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=The Courtauld}}
- Art Journal Award for Distinction, College Art Association (2022){{Cite web |date=January 24, 2022 |title=CAA 2022 Awards for Distinction |url=https://www.collegeart.org/news/2022/01/24/caa-2022-awards-for-distinction/ |access-date=September 7, 2023 |website=College Art Association}}
- Ruth Stephan Fellow, Beinecke Library, Yale University (2022)
- Animal Law and Policy Program Fellow, Harvard Law School (2022-2024)
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