In conversation with Che Gossett

How do we envision and enact a world in which justice is realised not through punishment, but the cultivation of freedom and flourishing? In this episode, writer and archivist Che Gossett discusses the politics and poetics of abolition. Gossett is a PhD candidate at Rutgers University and the 2019-20 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies in the Whitney Independent Study Program. They have written extensively on queer, trans and black radicalism, resistance and abolition.

Alongside Lola Olufemi and Sarah Shin, Gossett is an organiser of “Revolution is not a one-time event”, a series of events airing every Monday this August in which activists, academics and artists reflect on abolitionist praxis and thought.