Womxn at Nottingham Contemporary

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So Nottingham Contemporary are having an exhibition about women and advertise it as

mobile.twitter.com/Nottm_Contemp/status/1049996826227695616

Launch event:
www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/exhibition-launch-still-i-rise

Actual description of exhibition uses woman correctly

www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/still-i-rise

For info this is the main art gallery in Nottingham, free to visit and holds loads of interesting events. I am just getting concerned that as a woman I am starting to feel less welcome.

Also, I have no idea where they got the idea that the word woman didn't include black women.

I’m encouraged by all the comments. I may have to change my username to “fuckingwokechimp”.

Nottingham isn’t too far from me so maybe I should pop along and give them some feedback.

Was there some kind of meeting, after which all the woke kids just decided to unleash this new term "womxn" in unison?
Like a backlash to the dictionary?

Wokechimps.

Hmmm it does seem as though a really good exhibition (as described) has been hijacked by a wokesperson promoting the show. I was planning to go but now I’m thinking wtf?! They’ve got an explanation of woxmxanx on their twitter feed that’s almost identical to the wellcome one.

I'm still trying to reconcile the phrases: "It expresses that womxn are not the extension of men", with "Womxn also includes trans womxn".

Definitely going to go, we have to keep going and speaking otherwise we are just giving all our spaces over to mxn.

What about a mn meet-up there?

I'm local a up for that. Also have strong connection to the Notts art scene.

I'd come to a meet up there! I have no connections...

I'm bringing the GRA up as much as I can atm and this will a great conversation starter at an art event I'm at this weekend. Brings the two topics together seamlessly!

Sounds good. I have brought it up with a few people but been a bit too ranty, I know that's not the best way.

How do you pronounce that word? Womksn?

The answer is simple.

Redefine men and man as mxn and mxn and then women can remain women with out the linguistic link to men.

I have had a thought - if we let the super-woke have wom-qwertyxyz-n, can the other 3.7 billion of us have "woman" back to mean "adult human female"?

Yip Fermat, seems a good solution. Gather the twaw hive mind does not approve however.

Whoever came up with ‘womxn’ was probably a total wxnker.

An event called Daylighting at the Wellcome Trust in London was using that word , at least on Twitter. The twitter comments were very negative about it. They've apologised and stopped using it following the feedback. A proper apology too! Good work Wellcome Trust!

Did I just see this topic is going to be brought up on Newsnight that is on at the moment?

Yep!

At least, I think so. Just caught the "blurb". Started a new thread about it.

An event called Daylighting at the Wellcome Trust in London was using that word

Before they were called out, the event was called Gaslighting at the Wellcome Trust.

• The answer is simple.

Redefine men and man as mxn and mxn and then women can remain women with out the linguistic link to men.*

I've got another idea, which has the virtue of pronounceability - we should wind back the language by a few centuries. Apparently 'man' used to be neutral; males were called 'wermen'.

It would also mean that currently sexist terms such as chairman or firemen would become neutral.

I have had a thought - if we let the super-woke have wom-qwertyxyz-n, can the other 3.7 billion of us have "woman" back to mean "adult human female"?

Yes I had that exact same thought on the bus earlier.

I'm from Nottingham,happy to meet up