Rollergirl presents the artist fitted out in rollerskates and costume jewellery, with a teased afro, suggestively sucking on an ice lolly to 80s-style electronic disco music. Behind her, the green screen displays videos of phallic-shaped rockets launching and tanks approaching. One of the most overtly feminist and political of Tawale’s works, Rollergirl speaks to the construction of Pacific Islander women and islands as sites of colonial, militarised penetration. The final scenes — the artist slowing down and turning to watch the drama unfolding behind her — also hint at the complex situation diasporic Islanders inhabit, navigating their position as both witness to and subject of the violence being perpetrated.