Vital Signs ran multiple articles written by Black women about their experience with lupus. These articles ranged in topics from the over use of imagery of white women in public health messaging about lupus when Black women are three times more likely to have lupus, to how Black women's lupus were written off as nerves and allergies, to how there is a lack of research into how individuals of different races and genders experience lupus. These articles all noted that Black women experience lupus in a way that is informed by their race and gender, between sexism and racism impacting their access to treatment to how lupus symptoms can worsen with stress induced flare ups that are more frequent with sexism and racism placing increased stressors on Black women.