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Mind your language

Mind your language: Woman, women, womxn

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

When I say that it has given comfort to my husband, you can judge how foolish the Wellcome Institute was in using the word womxn and then apologising for it. It had wanted to be more inclusive with a workshop on ‘how womxn can challenge existing archives’. There, womxn serves as a plural, but it can be a singular too.

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