Meaning of womxn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Feminist spelling of woman.
   rare
2. Feminist spelling of women.
   rare

Examples

“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?”

““Coyolxauhqui Canto” by Cristina Gorocica, a song written in offering to the moon, documents the moment of recognition when a womxn's body undergoing a metamorphoses to accommodate the growth of life is mirrored back in the phases of [the moon].”

“Twenty-One Ways of Leaving: […] 19. The womxn in their thirties. The womxn with wrinkles at the edges of their eyes. The womxn who spell⟳ lonely with ambition. The womxn in their thirties. The womxn who do not bring⟳ up your age at the dinner table. The womxn who bring⟳ up your accolades at the dinner table. The womxn who make⟳ love⟳ to you and introduce⟳ you at the dinner table like⟳ they have⟳ not been intimate with your sheets. Oh honey, run⟳. No. The other way.”

“She was born in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico, and migrated with her family in the early 1990s to the Pacific Northwest. She is also a hip-hop artist with Batallones Femeninos, a womxn's hip-hop collective based in Mexico, and does multimedia production and autonomous organizing with Shades of Silence. She is currently in the process⟳ of applying to film school and to a graduate doctoral program⟳ to extend⟳ her work⟳ of supporting womxn and Indigenous communities ...”

“To every person I spoke with on my many trips across the country, to guides/mentors/friends/fam: to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, for living queer Black brilliance and Black love⟳, for creating space to remember⟳ Harriett Tubman, and for continuing to create⟳ Black Spaces for us rooted in the ways and words of Black womxn; ...”

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