In https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/7184, tags support was added to DRF. It can be viewed here: https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/pull/7184/files#diff-99d3943485b50b323271fe5399dab8b2c778f42cbc0749b0f702e4cab0a81b2cR107 DJA doesn't yet have this added.