THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL.
Thursday, March 12th | CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue | Skylight Room 9100
6:00pm-8:00pm
All events are free and open to the public
Speaker: Che Gossett
In this lecture, Che Gossett, winner of CLAGS’ 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies,examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle. Che excavates June Jordan and James Baldwin's archives for what Jose Munoz ca...
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL.
Thursday, March 12th | CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue | Skylight Room 9100
6:00pm-8:00pm
All events are free and open to the public
Speaker: Che Gossett
In this lecture, Che Gossett, winner of CLAGS’ 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies,examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle. Che excavates June Jordan and James Baldwin's archives for what Jose Munoz called the performative force of the past and its import for current prison abolitionist, Palestinian solidarity and anti-pinkwashing movements. Gosset explores what George Jackson’s original manuscript of Soledad Brother reveals about Palestinian poetics, black radicalism, prison abolition and the afterlife of slavery.
Speaker Bio
Che Gossett is a Black genderqueer archivist and activist who works to excavate queer of color AIDS activist and trans archives. They are the recipient of the 2014 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association Women's Committee, a Radcliffe research grant from Harvard University and the 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York.