mxn
mxn noun: feminist spelling of man.
Noun
mxn (plural mxn)
- 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. Gallagher, Barbara Winslow, Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN
- 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 these interventions […]2019, J. M. J. Marvuso et al., “Overcoming Essentialism in Community Psychology”, in Floretta Boonzaier, Taryn van Niekerk, editors, Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology, Springer, →ISBN, page 12
Forms of mxn
| plural | mxn |
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Origin of mxn
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.
Questions about mxn
- What does mxn mean?
- Mxn means feminist spelling of man.
- What part of speech is mxn?
- Mxn is a noun.
- What is the plural of mxn?
- The plural of mxn is mxn.
Words near mxn in the dictionary
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