Che Gossett’s Marlon Riggs and the Black Queer Cinematic will focus on the filmmaker Marlon Riggs’s lasting impact on queer, trans, and Black film and visual culture by situating him in the critical and political genealogies of Black arts movements and the Black radical tradition.
Che Gossett is a Black nonbinary femme writer and critical theorist specializing in queer/trans studies, aesthetic theory, abolitionist thought, and Black studies. Gossett’s writing appears in publications including the edited collections Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment (Fordham University Press, 2015), Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017), and Trans Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). Che is currently co-editing, with Tavia N’yongo, a special issue of Social Text journal on Sylvia Wynter, culture, and technics. They are currently the associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.