Don’t Call Me ‘Sis’: White Women Ignore Our Boundaries

Whitney Alese
ZORA
Published in
3 min readSep 26, 2021

It was the social media post heard all over TikTok.

User Bratt4U made a simple post, a video saying this: “If you’re white, don’t call me sis. Point blank period.”

Whitney Alese
ZORA
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Whitney Alese is a writer & podcaster, featured in WIRED Magazine (Sept 2020) & I-D Magazine (Dec. 2021), and NBC (Jan 2023). She is based in Philadelphia.