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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Try this: next time a GC insists on "biological reality" using some variation of the "adult human female" theme, ask them to ALSO define "adult".
And watch them squirm, as they realise that for humans it's socially defined... and for all other animals it's "capable of reproduction".
And watch them squirm, as they realise that for humans it's socially defined... and for all other animals it's "capable of reproduction".
Not just athletic performance.
Life is messy and complex, and sex and gender are part of that glorious, complicated mess.
Humans are social animals. GCs' obsession with a mythical "reality" of bioessentialism is a naive phantasm that sits well within a fascist worldview.
We MUST reject it.
Life is messy and complex, and sex and gender are part of that glorious, complicated mess.
Humans are social animals. GCs' obsession with a mythical "reality" of bioessentialism is a naive phantasm that sits well within a fascist worldview.
We MUST reject it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Try this: next time a GC insists on "biological reality" using some variation of the "adult human female" theme, ask them to ALSO define "adult".
And watch them squirm, as they realise that for humans it's socially defined... and for all other animals it's "capable of reproduction".
And watch them squirm, as they realise that for humans it's socially defined... and for all other animals it's "capable of reproduction".
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
(Chicago 2024-25 edition)
Billy Bragg
Ari Brown
Craig Taborn
Trio 3
Fay Victor
(Chicago 2024-25 edition)
Billy Bragg
Ari Brown
Craig Taborn
Trio 3
Fay Victor
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
System of a Down
Paramore
Warped Tour 98
Ozzfest 99
Bad Religion
System of a Down
Paramore
Warped Tour 98
Ozzfest 99
Bad Religion
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
System of a Down
Tool
Edge Fest ‘97
The Warning
Backstreet Boys
System of a Down
Tool
Edge Fest ‘97
The Warning
Backstreet Boys
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
(Chicago 2024-25 edition)
Billy Bragg
Ari Brown
Craig Taborn
Trio 3
Fay Victor
(Chicago 2024-25 edition)
Billy Bragg
Ari Brown
Craig Taborn
Trio 3
Fay Victor
Starting the day with French toast and some quality cat time, before a chosen-family Thanksgiving meal with our sisters.
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you get to have a queer one!
❤️🦃🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you get to have a queer one!
❤️🦃🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Amy and I have 4 days off, a rarity.
Tonight we went to MicroCenter and I bought a 24TB hard drive & filament.
Then we are some excellent sushi.
A good start. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving with our chosen sisters, Chicago style.
Tonight we went to MicroCenter and I bought a 24TB hard drive & filament.
Then we are some excellent sushi.
A good start. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving with our chosen sisters, Chicago style.
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Starting the day with French toast and some quality cat time, before a chosen-family Thanksgiving meal with our sisters.
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you get to have a queer one!
❤️🦃🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you get to have a queer one!
❤️🦃🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Note to self: I might be having a lie-in, but it's Thursday. I don't have to dilate.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Note to self: I might be having a lie-in, but it's Thursday. I don't have to dilate.
It's been nearly two weeks since this delightful boy came to his forever home.
And as it's "what are you thankful for?" time: here's some more of his story, and ours.
🧵
1/12
And as it's "what are you thankful for?" time: here's some more of his story, and ours.
🧵
1/12
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's been nearly two weeks since this delightful boy came to his forever home.
And as it's "what are you thankful for?" time: here's some more of his story, and ours.
🧵
1/12
And as it's "what are you thankful for?" time: here's some more of his story, and ours.
🧵
1/12
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Chicago residents can now report immigration enforcement violations online
wgntv.com/news/chicago...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Chicago residents can now report immigration enforcement violations online
wgntv.com/news/chicago...
wgntv.com/news/chicago...
Scarlett and I will be spending the day with the best sisters ever.
Chosen family is one of the absolute best things about being queer.
Chosen family is one of the absolute best things about being queer.
Equating holidays with fealty to nuclear family is a miserable trap.
Consider what you might do for and with community instead.
Consider what you might do for and with community instead.
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Scarlett and I will be spending the day with the best sisters ever.
Chosen family is one of the absolute best things about being queer.
Chosen family is one of the absolute best things about being queer.
Reposted by Jillian Whitton 🏳️⚧️, rising
Pope: NO BEING POLY!
God and his 600,000 wives: Bro.
God and his 600,000 wives: Bro.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Pope: NO BEING POLY!
God and his 600,000 wives: Bro.
God and his 600,000 wives: Bro.
Reposted by Jillian Whitton 🏳️⚧️, rising
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
I was adding equations to a PowerPoint presentation. Whittaker, MathCat, decided to help.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I was adding equations to a PowerPoint presentation. Whittaker, MathCat, decided to help.
Excellent piece on the poo-flinging and pie-throwing currently consuming the magasphere.
"plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that it was a Jewish conspiracy"
Plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that EVERYTHING was a Jewish conspiracy. As always.
"plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that it was a Jewish conspiracy"
Plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that EVERYTHING was a Jewish conspiracy. As always.
I wrote this before Candace Owens accused the Macrons of trying to kill her.
But it's a good example of what I'm talking about. There's an all-out war in MAGA to be the Next Big Thing, and it's encouraging nutty behavior to get clicks.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/c...
But it's a good example of what I'm talking about. There's an all-out war in MAGA to be the Next Big Thing, and it's encouraging nutty behavior to get clicks.
www.salon.com/2025/11/24/c...
Charlie Kirk's death is tearing MAGA apart - Salon.com
The killing of the Turning Point USA founder didn’t unify the base — it triggered infighting
www.salon.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Excellent piece on the poo-flinging and pie-throwing currently consuming the magasphere.
"plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that it was a Jewish conspiracy"
Plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that EVERYTHING was a Jewish conspiracy. As always.
"plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that it was a Jewish conspiracy"
Plenty of far-right people online are openly declaring that EVERYTHING was a Jewish conspiracy. As always.
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Weird how if you’re trans and 17 and seeking gender care you’re a “child,” but if you’re assaulted by a 57-year-old man you’re an “activist”
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Weird how if you’re trans and 17 and seeking gender care you’re a “child,” but if you’re assaulted by a 57-year-old man you’re an “activist”
Sigh. Yeah, "identifying as" is having a moment. Again.
I AM a woman. I DON'T "identify as". I don't "identify as" living in Chicago, being from Yorkshire, or getting increasingly pissed off with this nonsense, either.
People seem to think it's less dehumanizing than using a slur, for some reason.
I AM a woman. I DON'T "identify as". I don't "identify as" living in Chicago, being from Yorkshire, or getting increasingly pissed off with this nonsense, either.
People seem to think it's less dehumanizing than using a slur, for some reason.
“trans identifying“ is one of the worst possible turns of phrases
it is othering and dehumanizing
saying someone “identifies as having cancer” is tantamount to saying “is lying about having cancer”
i’m not choosing to be trans. “trans” is not a thing i’m ~doing~. it’s just part of who i ~am~.
it is othering and dehumanizing
saying someone “identifies as having cancer” is tantamount to saying “is lying about having cancer”
i’m not choosing to be trans. “trans” is not a thing i’m ~doing~. it’s just part of who i ~am~.
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sigh. Yeah, "identifying as" is having a moment. Again.
I AM a woman. I DON'T "identify as". I don't "identify as" living in Chicago, being from Yorkshire, or getting increasingly pissed off with this nonsense, either.
People seem to think it's less dehumanizing than using a slur, for some reason.
I AM a woman. I DON'T "identify as". I don't "identify as" living in Chicago, being from Yorkshire, or getting increasingly pissed off with this nonsense, either.
People seem to think it's less dehumanizing than using a slur, for some reason.
One day, I hope to see Linehan receive everything he wants to inflict on trans people.
linehan has been found not guilty of harassment.
linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage.
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really starting to wonder exactly what that man has to do to be found guilty of harassment??
he spends every day online doxxing and stalking ppl.
linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage.
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really starting to wonder exactly what that man has to do to be found guilty of harassment??
he spends every day online doxxing and stalking ppl.
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
One day, I hope to see Linehan receive everything he wants to inflict on trans people.
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You know, saying this often gets me in trouble with my own community. But if you seperate for a second the hurt and pain they cause, TERFs are kinda hilarious.
They're *so* mad, to the point of being damn near feral, but can't give you the simplest explanation why without lying.
They're *so* mad, to the point of being damn near feral, but can't give you the simplest explanation why without lying.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
You know, saying this often gets me in trouble with my own community. But if you seperate for a second the hurt and pain they cause, TERFs are kinda hilarious.
They're *so* mad, to the point of being damn near feral, but can't give you the simplest explanation why without lying.
They're *so* mad, to the point of being damn near feral, but can't give you the simplest explanation why without lying.
Whittaker's all shagged out, after a busy day of standing on my head and dancing the fandango on my keyboard while I work.
He's a good helper.
He's a good helper.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Whittaker's all shagged out, after a busy day of standing on my head and dancing the fandango on my keyboard while I work.
He's a good helper.
He's a good helper.
I got a couple more of those ridiculous blue wave / endless starter packs / no matter who accounts following me.
My patience has long since left the building. At this point, if your account is full of Newsom-is-the messiah crap, I'm assuming you're a transphobe and I'm blocking you.
🚫blue maga
My patience has long since left the building. At this point, if your account is full of Newsom-is-the messiah crap, I'm assuming you're a transphobe and I'm blocking you.
🚫blue maga
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I got a couple more of those ridiculous blue wave / endless starter packs / no matter who accounts following me.
My patience has long since left the building. At this point, if your account is full of Newsom-is-the messiah crap, I'm assuming you're a transphobe and I'm blocking you.
🚫blue maga
My patience has long since left the building. At this point, if your account is full of Newsom-is-the messiah crap, I'm assuming you're a transphobe and I'm blocking you.
🚫blue maga
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Wes Streeting is a hyper object of total-misogyny - of totalising patriarchal hatred of women. of absolute oppression. Period. Prison awaits all who are involved in the deliberate decimation of women’s lives and liberties. There is no quarter on my deck. 🌊🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ ⚫️⚫️
I made this presentation for murderous lying genitally-obsessed bigot Wes Streeting.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wes Streeting is a hyper object of total-misogyny - of totalising patriarchal hatred of women. of absolute oppression. Period. Prison awaits all who are involved in the deliberate decimation of women’s lives and liberties. There is no quarter on my deck. 🌊🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ ⚫️⚫️
One of these could have enormous, life-changing consequences including ostracism, unemployment, and constant media harassment.
The other is, well, you know.
The other is, well, you know.
cis people: trans people are WEIRD and GROSS
also cis people: here's a real brain teaser. would you rather be accused of being a little bit fruity or a paedophile? take your time, there's no easy answers here and both are equally bad.
also cis people: here's a real brain teaser. would you rather be accused of being a little bit fruity or a paedophile? take your time, there's no easy answers here and both are equally bad.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One of these could have enormous, life-changing consequences including ostracism, unemployment, and constant media harassment.
The other is, well, you know.
The other is, well, you know.
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I don’t want to make anyone jealous but I have cool new nickname
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I don’t want to make anyone jealous but I have cool new nickname
How to do a "clinical trial" when you have an assumed conclusion, no knowledge of science, and an awareness that no-one in the institutionally transphobic media will ever call you to account.
Streeting is admitting that the Pathways “trial” already has a predetermined outcome. Stuffing it with SEGM placeholders is evidence of this.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
How to do a "clinical trial" when you have an assumed conclusion, no knowledge of science, and an awareness that no-one in the institutionally transphobic media will ever call you to account.
Home.
It's been almost 18 months now. I miss my Seattle friends, but I've never felt more comfortable or welcome than in this amazing city.
#Chicago
It's been almost 18 months now. I miss my Seattle friends, but I've never felt more comfortable or welcome than in this amazing city.
#Chicago
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Home.
It's been almost 18 months now. I miss my Seattle friends, but I've never felt more comfortable or welcome than in this amazing city.
#Chicago
It's been almost 18 months now. I miss my Seattle friends, but I've never felt more comfortable or welcome than in this amazing city.
#Chicago
I'm fortunate to live in a neighborhood and a city with many lovely queer, immigrant, women, and bipoc-owned businesses. But they're everywhere (and online, of course). In the face of the marketing onslaught from the mainstream, they deserve your support.
Remember this shopping season:
There are businesses that capitulated to the administration like Target, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, etc.
Shop at stores that kept inclusiveness like Costco, Best Buy and Apple. And local stores.
We're fortunate to have many accepting stores locally.
There are businesses that capitulated to the administration like Target, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, etc.
Shop at stores that kept inclusiveness like Costco, Best Buy and Apple. And local stores.
We're fortunate to have many accepting stores locally.
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I'm fortunate to live in a neighborhood and a city with many lovely queer, immigrant, women, and bipoc-owned businesses. But they're everywhere (and online, of course). In the face of the marketing onslaught from the mainstream, they deserve your support.
Vaccines don't cause autism.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
Vaccines don't cause autism.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
Vaccines don't cause autism.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Vaccines don't cause autism.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.