Meanings
- rareFeminist 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, →ISBN1 more example
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
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.
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Cite this entry
mxn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mxn
“mxn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mxn. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mxn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mxn.
Source: mxn on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.