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zoe olesker
is 56% done
“i can’t remember what i did or where i went that night. sometimes you just go. and you’re gone.”
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“you’re not ever supposed to know. not all the way. that’s what makes the whole thing work the way it does. we can’t know. that’s why makes us keep going.”
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“i stayed quiet — the rest of the car ride and then for weeks after that. and she let me.”
— Apr 15, 2026 07:55AM
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“you’re not ever supposed to know. not all the way. that’s what makes the whole thing work the way it does. we can’t know. that’s why makes us keep going.”
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“i stayed quiet — the rest of the car ride and then for weeks after that. and she let me.”
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zoe olesker
is 55% done
“[he] gets out his phone like everyone does now when they want to leave without leaving.”
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“sometimes not having a story is the story.”
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“people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
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“it’s about disappearing in the whir of noise and doing.”
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“she got big to avoid shrinking. […] opal is a stone. she’s big an strong but old now and full of aches.”
— Apr 15, 2026 07:54AM
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“sometimes not having a story is the story.”
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“people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
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“it’s about disappearing in the whir of noise and doing.”
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“she got big to avoid shrinking. […] opal is a stone. she’s big an strong but old now and full of aches.”
zoe olesker
is 53% done
“we get used to everything to the point that we even get used to getting used to everything.”
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“nothing will be more real than the moment we know in our bones the end is near.”
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“we’ve been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, alive, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.”
— Apr 15, 2026 07:53AM
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“nothing will be more real than the moment we know in our bones the end is near.”
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“we’ve been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, alive, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.”
zoe olesker
is 50% done
“we made powwows because we needed a place to be together. […] we’ve been coming from miles. and we’ve been coming for years, generations, lifetimes, layered in prayer and handwoven regalia, beaded and sewn together, feathered, braided, blessed, and cursed.”
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“we are full-blood, half-breed, quadroon, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds. undoable math. insignificant remainders.”
— Apr 15, 2026 07:51AM
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“we are full-blood, half-breed, quadroon, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds. undoable math. insignificant remainders.”
zoe olesker
is 43% done
“he was a part of something. something you could dance to.”
— Apr 12, 2026 03:19PM
zoe olesker
is 43% done
“there on the screen, in full regalia, the dancer moved like gravity meant something different for him.”
— Apr 12, 2026 03:18PM
zoe olesker
is 42% done
“[his] feet and knees hurt when he stands or walks too long, he’s okay, he’s making it. he could easily not be making it. he’s almost always not been making it.”
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“the spider’s web is a home and a trap. […] it’s that you get stuck, and then the more stuck you get, the more stuck you get.”
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“i’m sorry for who i was.”
— Apr 12, 2026 03:14PM
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“the spider’s web is a home and a trap. […] it’s that you get stuck, and then the more stuck you get, the more stuck you get.”
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“i’m sorry for who i was.”
zoe olesker
is 28% done
“foreigners on our own land”
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“if it isn’t pulling from tradition, how is it indigenous? an if it is stuck in tradition, in the past, how can it be relevant to other indigenous people living now, how can it be modern?”
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“foul and fair”
— Apr 12, 2026 03:12PM
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“if it isn’t pulling from tradition, how is it indigenous? an if it is stuck in tradition, in the past, how can it be relevant to other indigenous people living now, how can it be modern?”
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“foul and fair”
