A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia is a work-in-progress that will become a book in early 2021, and showed in 2020 in Hudson Eye as an installation. The work is based on Taulapapa’s research into the queer history of the Pacific Islands, specifically within the cultures of Polynesia, which includes the Mahu of Hawai’i and Tahiti, and the Fa’afafine of Samoa. The work moves around chants and commentaries in Polynesian and colonial languages, as well as photographs, visual documents, and other pertinent works of art. The queer cultures of Polynesia were and are set in communal societies, with traditions of gender and sexuality, conflict and healing, environment and work and spirituality, and all these inform this work.