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Papers by Holly Patch
Oxford University Press eBooks, May 22, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing, 2024
Americana. Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music, 2023
Global Contestations of Gender Rights, Dec 31, 2022
Violent Times, Rising Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Gender Perspective, 2022
Global Contestations of Gender Rights , 2022
The Yogyakarta Principles for the application of human rights to sexual orientation and gender id... more The Yogyakarta Principles for the application of human rights to sexual orientation and gender identity define gender identity as “each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech, and mannerisms.” This definition and its acknowledgment within human rights politics is a key step in the fight of trans people for legal protection. Our aim is to analyze this definition both historically and systematically to find out how the Western liberal conception of rights fosters specific trans politics and limits the options for others. Specifically, we claim that political liberalism and the form of subjective rights that it brings about influence concepts of identity and political strategies. While we analyze the limits of the liberal framework, our aim is to think about how it is possible that even within this framework, non-normative bodies and queer identities can be acknowledged and supported
through law.
Feministische Studien, 2021
I land at the Philadelphia International Airport on 19 January 2017. Twenty-six months have gone ... more I land at the Philadelphia International Airport on 19 January 2017. Twenty-six months have gone by since my last visit to the U.S. Walking through the terminals, I experience reverse culture shock. Hat stores. Food courts. I am drawn back to the local mall of my hometown in Iowa, which smells the same. My eyes fall on one of these temporary shops. “AMERICA!” it’s called. The store features Inauguration Day memorabilia. You can buy red ‘Make America Great Again’ hats and sweatshirts and life-size cutouts of Hillary Clinton. Seeing Donald Trump’s face on a sign out front catches me in my gut. This is real, and it is happening now. I follow a walkway filled with large, comfortable chairs, each equipped with outlets for charging mobile devices. One woman is wearing a shirt that reads “NASTY WOMAN,” and I do a double take. I smile at her, amused and appreciative, yet incredulous. I am in America. She meets my gaze, and we see each other.
Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien, 2018
In this article, we argue that with critical feminist materialisms, it is possible to develop wha... more In this article, we argue that with critical feminist materialisms, it is possible to develop what we have already learned so far from poststructural gender deconstructivism while also asking what can yet be learned from bodies, experience, and materiality. We continue to reject essentialist understandings of gender but maintain that there is a need to emphasize the material dimension of lived experiences. 'Voice' is 'material relationality' that has not yet received enough attention despite its centrality to political pursuits. In tracing the voice and its relation to materialisms, phenomenology, and poststructuralism, we frame 'vocality' as an embodied and lived phenomenon, developing a theoretical lens for the purpose of investigating the enactment of agency of trans* vocality. This phenomenological, materialist approach turns to the lived experiences of transgender and non-binary singers to both ground theory on gender and understand what is political about trans* vocality in singing. Using material from an ongoing research project, we seek to show how the constitution of singing subjects is political and, additionally, how through singing-a kind of 'sensuous knowledge'-trans* vocal expression can be a joyful resource for politicism and social change.
Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien
Oxford University Press eBooks, May 22, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing, 2024
Americana. Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music, 2023
Global Contestations of Gender Rights, Dec 31, 2022
Violent Times, Rising Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Gender Perspective, 2022
Global Contestations of Gender Rights , 2022
The Yogyakarta Principles for the application of human rights to sexual orientation and gender id... more The Yogyakarta Principles for the application of human rights to sexual orientation and gender identity define gender identity as “each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech, and mannerisms.” This definition and its acknowledgment within human rights politics is a key step in the fight of trans people for legal protection. Our aim is to analyze this definition both historically and systematically to find out how the Western liberal conception of rights fosters specific trans politics and limits the options for others. Specifically, we claim that political liberalism and the form of subjective rights that it brings about influence concepts of identity and political strategies. While we analyze the limits of the liberal framework, our aim is to think about how it is possible that even within this framework, non-normative bodies and queer identities can be acknowledged and supported
through law.
Feministische Studien, 2021
I land at the Philadelphia International Airport on 19 January 2017. Twenty-six months have gone ... more I land at the Philadelphia International Airport on 19 January 2017. Twenty-six months have gone by since my last visit to the U.S. Walking through the terminals, I experience reverse culture shock. Hat stores. Food courts. I am drawn back to the local mall of my hometown in Iowa, which smells the same. My eyes fall on one of these temporary shops. “AMERICA!” it’s called. The store features Inauguration Day memorabilia. You can buy red ‘Make America Great Again’ hats and sweatshirts and life-size cutouts of Hillary Clinton. Seeing Donald Trump’s face on a sign out front catches me in my gut. This is real, and it is happening now. I follow a walkway filled with large, comfortable chairs, each equipped with outlets for charging mobile devices. One woman is wearing a shirt that reads “NASTY WOMAN,” and I do a double take. I smile at her, amused and appreciative, yet incredulous. I am in America. She meets my gaze, and we see each other.
Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien, 2018
In this article, we argue that with critical feminist materialisms, it is possible to develop wha... more In this article, we argue that with critical feminist materialisms, it is possible to develop what we have already learned so far from poststructural gender deconstructivism while also asking what can yet be learned from bodies, experience, and materiality. We continue to reject essentialist understandings of gender but maintain that there is a need to emphasize the material dimension of lived experiences. 'Voice' is 'material relationality' that has not yet received enough attention despite its centrality to political pursuits. In tracing the voice and its relation to materialisms, phenomenology, and poststructuralism, we frame 'vocality' as an embodied and lived phenomenon, developing a theoretical lens for the purpose of investigating the enactment of agency of trans* vocality. This phenomenological, materialist approach turns to the lived experiences of transgender and non-binary singers to both ground theory on gender and understand what is political about trans* vocality in singing. Using material from an ongoing research project, we seek to show how the constitution of singing subjects is political and, additionally, how through singing-a kind of 'sensuous knowledge'-trans* vocal expression can be a joyful resource for politicism and social change.
Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien