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mxn

mxn noun: feminist spelling of man.

Noun

mxn (plural mxn)

  1. (rare) 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

pluralmxn

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

  1. MXenes
  2. Mxes.
  3. MXGP
  4. MXGPs
  5. MXML
  6. mxn
  7. MXP
  8. MXs
  9. mXSS
  10. Mxtress
  11. Mxtresses

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