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Interview with Danielle Holliday

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Today our guest is Danielle Holliday . She is an activist and writer. We have conducted an interview with her. What experiences caused you to begin writing? I began writing because I realized that there were not a lot of voices of color advocating for wellness, or socioeconomic policies. But I am so glad that things have begun to change. The first magazines that published me were “Blavity” and “For Harriet”, publications for Black women. They are smaller and niche based but growing. Then I moved on to “Thought Catalog” and eventually my local newspaper “The Gazette”. It is my belief that the liberation of one group is essential to all people. I speak on issues that affect everyone such as wellness, relationships, and self-care and also social, economic and racial inequality I believe many women of color like myself became more mobilized after the beginning of the black lives matter movement, and more people became vocal about community issues. A few years ago in my h...