Two-Spirit Decolonial Changemaking on Instagram
Open Access Depositedand visibility, which simultaneously exposes activists to risk and fosters representational power. Together, these practices form a digital mode of decolonial relationality that bridges past, present, and future, modeling how Two-Spirit activists transform social media into a space for cultural resurgence, solidarity, and the reimagining of decolonial futures.
remembrance, which reclaims precolonial histories and counters colonial narratives
community, expressed through expansive and transnational kinship
This thesis examines how Indigenous Two-Spirit activists use Instagram as a site of decolonial changemaking. Drawing on discourse analysis and grounded theory, I analyze 77 posts from three prominent Two-Spirit creators to understand how their digital practices challenge the colonial matrix of power. Building from Indigenous and Latin American decolonial thought, four interconnected themes emerge
feeling, used as a legitimate site of knowledge and collective healing
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