The archive consists of memories, documents, and images waiting to be curated into a story. In this article, the author collates archival object encounters into a transgender ‘ghost story’ that marks the impossibility of a straightforward history of the subject, relying instead on embodied encounters with archive objects, or the remnants (ghostly and tangible) of archival subjects. Following the materials of Charley Parkhurst and Reed Erickson, the author makes connections where none previously existed, asking: How do we put life back into the materials of the dead? What do the traces and memories of these ghosts offer the living? What do archive objects activate in the eyes that see them, the ears that listen, and the hearts that race or slow with each haptic encounter? Following these questions, this article pieces together a different kind of narrative history and transition story through the unexpected encounters with the archive and its ghosts.

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追逐查理，寻找里德：走向档案馆的幽灵

档案由等待编入故事的回忆、文档和图像组成。在这篇文章中，作者将档案对象的遭遇整理成一个跨性别的“鬼故事”，标志着该主题的直接历史是不可能的，而是依赖于与档案对象的具体遭遇，或档案主题的残余（幽灵和有形）。作者按照查理·帕克赫斯特和里德·埃里克森的材料，在以前不存在的地方建立联系，问：我们如何将生命重新放入死者的材料中？这些鬼魂的踪迹和记忆给活着的人带来了什么？档案对象在看到它们的眼睛、倾听的耳朵以及每次触觉相遇时加速或减速的心脏中激活了什么？跟着这些问题，