Jillian Whitton 🏳️⚧️, rising
@jillianw.bsky.social
"The thirst trap of Andersonville!" - Anne
Love, ferocity, and mathematics.
She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21
Love, ferocity, and mathematics.
She/her. Late-blooming 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, making up for lost time. Scientist, socialist, musician. Yorkshire lass, living the dream in Chicago, with @scarlettaddams.bsky.social 👰👰 10/28/21
Pinned
With love, ferocity, pride, and spite, we will endure.
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STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND LOOK AT THIS SWEET BOY
This is Whittaker. We met him at the rescue today. He was looking for his people.
He's found them! We just brought him home (I cried). He's the best boy ever and now he has a forever home.
This is Whittaker. We met him at the rescue today. He was looking for his people.
He's found them! We just brought him home (I cried). He's the best boy ever and now he has a forever home.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND LOOK AT THIS SWEET BOY
This is Whittaker. We met him at the rescue today. He was looking for his people.
He's found them! We just brought him home (I cried). He's the best boy ever and now he has a forever home.
This is Whittaker. We met him at the rescue today. He was looking for his people.
He's found them! We just brought him home (I cried). He's the best boy ever and now he has a forever home.
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Guess I’m never going to hear about Trump and his “Big Beautiful Bill” the same way ever again.
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Guess I’m never going to hear about Trump and his “Big Beautiful Bill” the same way ever again.
Vagiversary!
November 15 2022: in Spokane for the best Taco Tuesday ever.
November 15 2022: in Spokane for the best Taco Tuesday ever.
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Vagiversary!
November 15 2022: in Spokane for the best Taco Tuesday ever.
November 15 2022: in Spokane for the best Taco Tuesday ever.
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You heard right: Me and three of my friends are going to force femme the Pope.
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
You heard right: Me and three of my friends are going to force femme the Pope.
We live under a system which encourages the opposite of these things.
It's aberrant, and must be replaced.
It's aberrant, and must be replaced.
We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We live under a system which encourages the opposite of these things.
It's aberrant, and must be replaced.
It's aberrant, and must be replaced.
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If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself.
One day, the meaning of labels will disappear.
Please love yourself as you are.
The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself.
Because that is your strength and beauty.
Chiitan loves you
One day, the meaning of labels will disappear.
Please love yourself as you are.
The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself.
Because that is your strength and beauty.
Chiitan loves you
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you can't come out right now, please don't hate yourself.
One day, the meaning of labels will disappear.
Please love yourself as you are.
The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself.
Because that is your strength and beauty.
Chiitan loves you
One day, the meaning of labels will disappear.
Please love yourself as you are.
The one who can cherish yourself the most is yourself.
Because that is your strength and beauty.
Chiitan loves you
Last day of the conference, and today I just get to sit in the audience and maybe ask the odd question.
My contribution to storytelling hour was fun, very queer, and went over well, I think.
And while I'm here - check out the amazing earrings @scarlettaddams.bsky.social bought for me!
My contribution to storytelling hour was fun, very queer, and went over well, I think.
And while I'm here - check out the amazing earrings @scarlettaddams.bsky.social bought for me!
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Last day of the conference, and today I just get to sit in the audience and maybe ask the odd question.
My contribution to storytelling hour was fun, very queer, and went over well, I think.
And while I'm here - check out the amazing earrings @scarlettaddams.bsky.social bought for me!
My contribution to storytelling hour was fun, very queer, and went over well, I think.
And while I'm here - check out the amazing earrings @scarlettaddams.bsky.social bought for me!
My crowning social-media achievement was getting blocked by William Shatner on twitter.
One day in the hopefully not too distant future, I will be able to say that the Prime Minister of the UK liked my post on Bluesky. 💅
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My crowning social-media achievement was getting blocked by William Shatner on twitter.
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Honest answer: Nothing. Nothing will happen, because the people who could do something 'legally' are all neck deep in knowing all about it and - through their silence - are complicit in its continued existence.
Honest question.
If everything is released, nothing held back, and it is incriminating.
What will happen?
He literally wields the DOJ as a personal cudgel, he is surrounded by sycophants and potential fall-guys.
Do we really believe Justice will be served?
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
If everything is released, nothing held back, and it is incriminating.
What will happen?
He literally wields the DOJ as a personal cudgel, he is surrounded by sycophants and potential fall-guys.
Do we really believe Justice will be served?
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
thehill.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Honest answer: Nothing. Nothing will happen, because the people who could do something 'legally' are all neck deep in knowing all about it and - through their silence - are complicit in its continued existence.
Ready for Day 2 of Women in Statistics and Data Science.
Got my talk out of the way yesterday, time to relax, learn, and decide what I'm going to do for today's closing storytelling hour.
Got my talk out of the way yesterday, time to relax, learn, and decide what I'm going to do for today's closing storytelling hour.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ready for Day 2 of Women in Statistics and Data Science.
Got my talk out of the way yesterday, time to relax, learn, and decide what I'm going to do for today's closing storytelling hour.
Got my talk out of the way yesterday, time to relax, learn, and decide what I'm going to do for today's closing storytelling hour.
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These are the people who we must fight the hardest for.
I have a closeted, pre-transition transfemme friend in the UK who abandoned her dreams of coming out and transitioning specifically because of how the environment in the UK is. We all embraced her coming out online. But she knew society wouldn't in person. It's crushing. I just want her to be happy.
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
These are the people who we must fight the hardest for.
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Explain it to me like I just arrived from Mars. How would Brianna Ghey and/or her murderers not using their phones at school have prevented her death?
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Explain it to me like I just arrived from Mars. How would Brianna Ghey and/or her murderers not using their phones at school have prevented her death?
My talk went really well! Happy girl is happy.
A bit more dressed up than my usual work-from-home attire, for day 1 of the virtual conference.
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My talk went really well! Happy girl is happy.
Have the silly people ever had anything to say about languages without gendered pronouns? Do they think biology is different in Finland?
"biological pronouns"
Y'all, this whole page ...
"Using preferred pronouns means referring to men who identify as women as “she” and “her”, and women who identify as men as “he” and “him”."
(don't miss the examples at the end 🙄)
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"Using preferred pronouns means referring to men who identify as women as “she” and “her”, and women who identify as men as “he” and “him”."
(don't miss the examples at the end 🙄)
(alt text too long, continued in pronoun guy image)
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Have the silly people ever had anything to say about languages without gendered pronouns? Do they think biology is different in Finland?
A bit more dressed up than my usual work-from-home attire, for day 1 of the virtual conference.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A bit more dressed up than my usual work-from-home attire, for day 1 of the virtual conference.
I don't usually post about work stuff here, but today I'll make an exception.
Looking forward to (virtually) seeing some of you later today!
Looking forward to (virtually) seeing some of you later today!
Welcome, #WSDS2025 attendees, to Day 1 of the virtual conference—we are so happy to "see" you! Let’s make this conference one to remember! Check out today’s program, and let’s roll! tinyurl.com/phzauvpc #STATSSKY
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I don't usually post about work stuff here, but today I'll make an exception.
Looking forward to (virtually) seeing some of you later today!
Looking forward to (virtually) seeing some of you later today!
We took the Empire Builder in spring 2024, when we moved from Seattle to Chicago.
It was absolutely breathtaking. A great start to our new lives.
1/2
www.timeout.com/chicago/news...
It was absolutely breathtaking. A great start to our new lives.
1/2
www.timeout.com/chicago/news...
The most beautiful train ride in the U.S. starts in Chicago
The 46-hour cross-country rail trip—which can cost as little as $160—is nothing short of epic.
www.timeout.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We took the Empire Builder in spring 2024, when we moved from Seattle to Chicago.
It was absolutely breathtaking. A great start to our new lives.
1/2
www.timeout.com/chicago/news...
It was absolutely breathtaking. A great start to our new lives.
1/2
www.timeout.com/chicago/news...
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Let's commit some lesbianism, @pat4pep.bsky.social, shall we? 😘
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Let's commit some lesbianism, @pat4pep.bsky.social, shall we? 😘
From my friend Debrah on fb:
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
From my friend Debrah on fb:
Too good to leave unalttexted!
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Too good to leave unalttexted!
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Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
I decided yesterday wasn't quite nasty enough for the full-on snow boots.
J (holding doc martens): time to break out the lesbian boots
S: all your boots are lesbian boots
J: fair point
J (holding doc martens): time to break out the lesbian boots
S: all your boots are lesbian boots
J: fair point
Teaching @captnamy.bsky.social how to walk in snow and packed ice in snow boots.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I decided yesterday wasn't quite nasty enough for the full-on snow boots.
J (holding doc martens): time to break out the lesbian boots
S: all your boots are lesbian boots
J: fair point
J (holding doc martens): time to break out the lesbian boots
S: all your boots are lesbian boots
J: fair point
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Technically gay and trans all my life, had no clue until my 20s, didn't do anything about it until recently in middle age. Life is weird and wild and lovely.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Technically gay and trans all my life, had no clue until my 20s, didn't do anything about it until recently in middle age. Life is weird and wild and lovely.