Julie Quiroz
Co-Creation
For the first five years of my daughter's life, I told her a story every night. Cuddled in bed, I would invent new story after new story,...
Julie Quiroz
- Aug 26
- 3 min
Scars
When my daughter was three, a small mass appeared in my right breast. I spoke to my daughter as gently as I could ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jul 27
- 2 min
Every New Moon*
Every new moon reminds me that whole worlds exist before we can see them. This truth deeply guides my work. My new moon practice began a...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jun 27
- 1 min
Remember
In May, when we first learned of the Supreme Court's impending ruling on Roe v. Wade, our team at Birth Center Equity* talked together...
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Julie Quiroz
- May 27
- 2 min
Beyond Words
I visit my father most Sundays, in the nursing home where he's lived for several years. My father has Alzheimer's, but is in excellent...
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Julie Quiroz
- Apr 28
- 3 min
Food Culture
Food culture consists of the relationships and experiences we engage through food—the way food shapes our experiences of the world ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Mar 30
- 2 min
Tenderness
On my fingers I count, first on one hand, then on the other, all the young people I know, personally or through others, who have taken...
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Julie Quiroz
- Feb 28
- 3 min
Coming Back
Next week marks two years since the first cases of COVID emerged in Michigan, where I live. As our deeply troubled world begins to open...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jan 28
- 4 min
Tempted By Scarcity
I’m tempted to believe in scarcity right now. That the way things are is the only way they can be. So I’m closing my eyes and remembering...
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Julie Quiroz
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
Opening Lines
"Let me sing to you now,
about how people turn into other things." Ever since my first book love when I was 18 I've chosen books ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
Salsa Lessons
Wise people taught me that vision lives in our whole bodies, not just in our heads. When everything goes dark, we practice vision in our...
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Julie Quiroz
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Stories of How We Change
Our stories are sacred. Our stories are powerful. Our stories, like ourselves, are part of a longer arc that we have inherited and will...
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Julie Quiroz
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Strategy for Wholeness
What is cultural strategy? I was asked recently, by Nayantara Sen of Real Food Real Stories. After honoring the many brilliant people who...
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Julie Quiroz
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
Urgent Lessons
In these past weeks I’ve searched my soul, again, for what is most important to do in the world.
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Julie Quiroz
- Aug 5, 2021
- 1 min
Starting to Understand
A giant sunflower appeared in my garden, in space carved through grass and dirt long before I arrived.
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Julie Quiroz
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Birth Detroit Says "Lead With Us"
"We were birthed out of what the community said that they wanted and that they needed. That's our roots and we will never stray from...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Animating Community Solutions
I looked up the word “animate” and discovered that it means, literally, “to bring to life.” I love that. And I love that I got to play...
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Julie Quiroz
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
Synchronicity
I’m paying attention to coincidence right now, to synchronicity, to moments when two actions happen at precisely the same time. One of...
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Julie Quiroz
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Practice & Power
Practice may be the simplest and hardest part of creating the future. I was reminded of this recently, when two beloved collaborators...
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Julie Quiroz
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
All The Ingredients
Who will I invite to co-create with me in this purpose? How will this build community? How will this echo out to our children’s...
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