womxn

Respelled to avoid containing men. Compare womyn, Latinx.

womxn pl (plural only)

1. (rare) Feminist spelling of women.
   • 2017, Putuma, Koleka, Collective Amnesia (→ISBN), page 44:

     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.

   • 2017, Devon Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, Gabriel R. Valle, Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives (University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN), page 443:

     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 ...

   • 2017, Rae Paris, The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory (Wayne State University Press, →ISBN):

     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; ...