ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 offers analyses of a day-long oral history workshop with transgender-identified participants through the local Wingspan LGBT Community Center to consider the myriad ways that human and nonhuman bodies, as important sites of history and of knowledge production, produce archives and, subsequently, how archives produce bodies. As an instantiation of the ways that embodiment is integral to archival productions, this chapter highlights the consequences of the bodies that get produced and are produced while always understanding that they are more than mere bodies. The chapter treats storytelling as an in-depth and embodied method. Using media studies and archival studies scholarship, this chapter traces the human and nonhuman bodies that participate in the complex storytelling processes and productions.
