What You Need To Know About The Intersectional Term ‘Womxn’; HITLAB Women's Health Tech Challenge; 10 inspirational female engineers + more
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What does it mean to be a woman? Many people on the internet say that it means having a certain set of genitals, arguing that gender is an innate set of characteristics we inherit from our bodies rather than an identity we are socialised into and can choose for ourselves.
‘Womxn’, an alternative spelling to ‘woman/women’, was proposed as a way to reclaim the identity of womanhood as inclusive and intersectional, and not defined in relation to men. It has been pronounced as ‘wo-minx’ or simply in the same way as ‘woman/women’.
‘Womxn’ was identified in writing in the 1970s, during the second-wave feminist movement. It appeared alongside ‘womyn’, another alternative spelling for ‘woman/women’. Both forms sought to reclaim and express more emancipated womanhood through the removal of the ‘men/man’ at the end of each word.
‘Womxn’ emerged as a term to explicitly signpost the inclusion of trans and WOC, as ‘womyn’ has been associated with trans-exclusionary radical feminism and white feminism.
Find out more about this intriguing topic on the Daye blog. Written by Monica Karpinski. Monica is the Founder/Editor of The Femedic, a media and research platform for women’s health. She speaks and writes widely on gender and health inequality. You can follow her on Twitter @MonKarpi.
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