[7] Gossett grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts, with their twin, Caitlin, and their sibling, activist and filmmaker Tourmaline.

[8][9] 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.

[12] From 2014 to 2019, Gossett served as the Community Archivist and Student Coordinator at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

[16] They have published their writing in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility,[17] Death and Other Penalties: Continental Philosophers on Prisons and Capital Punishment,[18] Transgender Studies Reader,[19] The Scholar & Feminist Online,[20] Los Angeles Review of Books,[21] and Frieze.

[24][25][26][27][28] 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.