mxn

Feminist spelling of man

Noun

  1. Feminist spelling of man
    • A womxn whose ability to carry out this work is through the grace of Anishinaabe mxn and institutions? A womxn without a grove of birch whose bark may be harvested without fear of negative consequences? - 2018, Julie A....
    • Fundamental to these interventions is how gender is understood and how womxn¹ and mxn are positioned as (non)gendered beings. Central, too, is an understanding of the ways in which womxn and mxn are positioned within...

Origin

From men + -x-. Respelled to use x (like e.g. Latinx) to convey that the word has a broad scope, and to foreground people of color; compare womxn.

Forms

mxn

Related

myn