Che Gossett

Biographic Data

ID906115
NAMEChe Gossett
GIVEN NAMESChe
FAMILY NAMEGossett
SIGNATUREGOSSETT C
AFFILIATIONS101 Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA.
ORCID0009-0003-3540-8786
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Unsettling the Question of Technology

    Che Gossett, Tavia Nyong'OARTICLESocial Text2026

    This editors’ introduction to the special issue “Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology” situates Wynter's revolutionary critique of the “overrepresentation of Man” within the intertwined crises of race, technics, and planetary survival. Reading Wynter alongside current formations of artificial intelligence, ecological collapse, and technofascism, the editors find that her concept of “dysselection” exposes how racial capitalism's epistemolo…

  • The afterlives of Gregory Smith: Blackness, queerness and viral insurgency

    Open AccessChe GossettARTICLESexualities2026

    This article explores the counter archive of Black queer AIDS activist Gregory Smith, and the ways in which his incarcerated AIDS activism became a means of resistance to the carceral state and premature death. Against the register of the case which follows a racial as juridical index, Smith’s own letters form a counter to the official record -- exceeding it -- as it documents his ‘agency’ only as a racialized pathos of criminality and threat to …

  • The Dark Sublime: Abolition and Aesthetics at the End of the World

    Che GossettARTICLETransition2024

  • Between Inconceivable and Criminal: Black Trans Feminism and the History of the Present

    Matt Richardson, Eve Brown et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies2022

    The terms "Black," "Trans," and "Feminist" do not always have an easy association with each other. This roundtable features six Black trans scholars–Eve Brown, Trystan Cotten, Che Gossett, LaVelle Ridley, Matt Richardson, and C. Riley Snorton–who gathered to discuss what it means to be a Black trans feminist and how Black trans feminisms could shape the future of feminist theory and politics

  • A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History

    David J Getsy, Che GossettARTICLEArt Journal2021

  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

    Che Gossett, Eva HaywardARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2020

    The following is an interview with author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward. Sycamore discusses how she uses fiction to work through historical traumas, inviting readers to imagine the AIDS pandemic as not simply memory but as continuing crisis that necessitates desiring into the archive so that we might begin to understand AIDS. Trauma cannot be historically rendered—this is the catastrophe of this…

  • Monica Jones

    Che Gossett, Eva HaywardARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2020

    The following is an interview with activist Monica Jones conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward. In this interview, Jones talks about her activism against the criminalization of sex work, recounting how the program Project ROSE, which was a revealing collaboration between the university and the police, functioned through carceral logics to detain and then according to a carceral economy of innocence, criminally prosecute or “reeducate” sex work…

  • Trans in a Time of HIV/Aids

    Che Gossett, Eva HaywardARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2020Cited by: 3References: 9

  • Cecilia Gentili

    Che Gossett, Eva HaywardARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2020

    The following is an interview with performer, activist, and advocate Cecilia Gentili conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward. Cecilia Gentili is a longtime trans activist in New York City. Gentili has been involved in queer, trans, AIDS sex worker, and antiviolence organizing for decades. In this interview Gentili discusses her recent performance The Knife Cuts Both Ways, the limits of trans narratives and representation, and how she pushes at t…

  • Kiyan Williams

    Che Gossett, Eva HaywardARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2020

    The following is an interview conducted by Che Gossett and Eva Hayward with Kiyan Williams, multidisciplinary artist and assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. William's visual art—sculpture and video—on blackness and ecology, dirt and displacement, brings Black trans poetics, aesthetics, and politics to bear on questions of the afterlife of slavery and plantation geographies. Their work also engages Black trans archives and his…

  • Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto

    Tara Atluri, John Paul Catungal et al.BOOKQueering Urban Justice2018

  • Impossibility Ofthat

    Eva Hayward, Che GossettARTICLEAngelaki2017Cited by: 11References: 19

    Working with Jorge Luis Borges's The Book of Imaginary Beings, this essay shows how creaturely beings, or transfigurations, dramatize the afterlife of racial slavery, coloniality, the (con)temporality of HIV/AIDS, and how their im/possibility disturbs and breaks with the "order of things." While transitive and transversal in their potentiality for insurgency, Imaginary Beings and Fantastic Zoology also always carry a colonial logic, a conquest pa…