femxle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From female + -x-. Respelled both to avoid containing male, and to use x (like e.g. Latinx), intended to convey that the word has a broad scope. Compare womxn.
Senses: examples: text: OP-ED: THE FUTURE IS FEMXLE: MUTE MISOGYNY IN 2019 / Starting 2019, it’s hard not to feel some relief compared to the past two years. 2016-18 were — to put it bluntly — trash years for black womxn.
ref: 2019 January 11, Chelsea Higgs Wise, RVA Magazine:
text: The OML on Revry channel highlights queer female or femxle stories in a truly “always on” environment and free of charge.
ref: 2020 October 28, Dino-Ray Ramos, “Revry Launches First Live Queer Womxn TV Channel OML”, in Deadline:
text: Arizona Women’s Film Festival (Flagstaff, Arizona) / International: exploring the femxle experience from any avenue.
ref: 2021, azwomensfilmfest.com, quotee, Women’s Film Festivals & #WomenInFilm Databases: A Handbook, Spiral Collective, →ISBN:
text: The Ogle County area Womxn in Business is a network of femxle business owners holding space to connect, find support and build relationships with peers who recognize the hard work it takes to be entrepreneurs, [Meggan] Dickson-Grennan said.
ref: 2021 December 31, “Womxn in Business donates $300 to PADS”, in Forreston Journal, volume 155, number 35, page 5:
text: The second is a global version, a femxle-led³[…]³ In response to a global trend, the term femxle/womxn is used throughout in this network to be inclusive and encompass all persons identifying as female/woman.[…]Transformation Network Example 2: A Femxle-led Network Towards a New Economic Future / The global example of a transformation network, the femxle-led network of professional change-makers towards a new economic architecture, emerged out of a much larger consciousness on the challenges ahead towards regenerative civilization.[…]Its goal is to unite at least 36 femxle professionals from around the globe to develop a new economic architecture and disseminate it globally in a manifesto.[…]A high-level network advisory group made up of femxle experts and strategic forerunners in new economic thinking and practice is providing the expert input and support needed.[…]For the network process design, this meant that a high-level advisory group with femxle experts is integrated into the network-building process.[…]Within its first 5 months, overall 48 high-profile global femxle professionals were selected for membership in the network, out of more than 100 expressions of interest.
ref: 2022, Elisabeth Kühn, “Small Scale, Large Scale—Why Networks are the Cornerstone of Transformations”, in Petra Künkel, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, editors, Transformation Literacy: Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations, Springer, →ISBN, part III (Stewarding Transformations Towards Wellbeing and a Healthy Planet), pages 297–304:
text: THE FEMXLE CREATIVES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT[…]We’re spotlighting some of femxle creatives who are killing it in their respective fields.[…]However, we’re using today to gather some inspiring creatives all in one helpful place – here are the femxle creatives you should know about, thank us later.
ref: 2022 March 8, Stella Hughes, Culted:
text: Produced by Ellandar Productions, a British East and Southeast Asian (BESEA) led theatre company championing BESEA, British Muslim and femxle creatives “to bring new audiences from different cultural roots into the theatre”.
ref: 2022 May 31, Abbey Wong, “Why You Need to Watch ‘No Particular Order’ AT Theatre503 This Summer”, in Resonate:
text: All Femxle Tattoo Studio, The Wolf Den, Overcame Adversity to Provide an Inclusive Space
ref: 2022 June 3, Udella J. Miranda, 303 Magazine:
glosses: Feminist spelling of female.