Tangaroa Paul

Tangaroa Paul is a Poi expert.

They identify as gender-fluid, not identifying with any fixed gender. Rather than ‘he’ or ‘she’ pronouns, Tangaroa has recently come to prefer the term ‘Irarere’, which translates to “gender-fluid” in te reo Māori. The term represents a unique coming-together of Tangaroa’s Māori culture and gender identity, mirrored by the term Takatāpui, which Tangaroa also uses to refer to being Māori and identifying with diverse sexes, genders and sexualities.