The Healer's Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia

The Healer’s Wound: A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia is an artist’s book, a poet’s collage, based on more than several years of archival research by Sāmoan fa'afafine artist and poet Dan Taulapapa McMullin. The wound in the title refers to the conflict between colonialism and indigenous queer cultures of Polynesia, through texts and images from and of the peoples of the archipelagoes of the South Pacific Islands, extending from the northwest in Hawai'i to the southeast in Aotearoa, including Sāmoa, Manu'a, Tonga, Viti, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Rapanui and others.