Digital platforms offer users various meaning-making resources to express their stances towards specific issues, and, as a result, to perform and manage their identities. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this paper explored how individuals who identify as Two-Spirit, an umbrella term used within Native American communities to refer to non-binary people, discursively construct their identities on the popular video-sharing platform TikTok by enacting varied practices of stance taking. Specifically, this paper provides a detailed analysis of three videos marked by the hashtag #TwoSpirit in which the content creators explain the meaning of the term to their audience. The findings not only illustrate the approaches taken by three content creators to the explanation of the term (i.e., contrastive, pedagogical, and metamorphic), but also shed light on the multimodal nature of stance-taking on TikTok and the centrality of embodied practices in the mediated era. In detail, embodied practices are seen as particularly relevant to disrupting colonial heteropatriarchy.

数字平台为用户提供各种有意义的资源，以表达他们对特定问题的立场，从而执行和管理他们的身份。本文利用多模态话语分析，探讨了被认定为“双性精神”（Two-Spirit）的个体如何在流行的视频共享平台 TikTok 上通过各种实践来话语性地构建自己的身份。采取的立场。具体来说，本文对标有 #TwoSpirit 主题标签的三个视频进行了详细分析，其中内容创建者向观众解释了该术语的含义。研究结果不仅说明了三位内容创作者对该术语的解释所采取的方法（即对比法、教学法和变形法），但也揭示了 TikTok 立场的多模式性质以及媒介时代具体实践的中心地位。具体而言，具体实践被认为与破坏殖民异父权制特别相关。