Julie Quiroz
Chimera
I am a chimera. In the tissue of my body lives the ancestral DNA I was born with. Forty percent Indigenous Andean, 40 percent European,...
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Julie Quiroz
Oct 25, 20222 min read
A Guest
Last month I moved to Puerto Rico, fulfilling a commitment I made nearly a year ago, to collaborate with friends who had returned to the...
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Julie Quiroz
Sep 22, 20222 min read
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,...
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Julie Quiroz
Aug 26, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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 29, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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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