Sister Ink was one of the NBWHP's publications in which JoAnne Banks-Wallace framed storytelling as a tool of health and healing and a way in which Black women assert self-definition and self-determination.

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The NBWHP worked against the conspiracy of silence, the terminology used to refer to the idea that there was not much discussion between Black women and Black communities at large about health.

Emphasis on storytelling and hearing Black women's stories

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

Black Disability Politics

Emphasis on Storytelling in Sister Ink

The NBWHP hosted a group called "Black and Female: What Is the Reality?" among other self-help workshops which encouraged Black women to share their health stories.

How Storytelling Connected to Self-Help Groups

Storytelling and empowering Black women to name and discuss their health concerns outside of a medicalized context served as a response to the racism experienced by Black women in the medical system.

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