“Why not ‘folks’? They are pronounced the same way, and both folx and folks are gender-neutral ways to refer to groups of people.

“You might also notice that I employ the word ‘folx’ throughout the text,” she wrote. In the first edition of her book Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, sex educator Lucie Fielding dedicated a paragraph to this mystifying term. Folx is the deliberate queerification of a word meant to differentiate queer spaces and groups from the non-queer. And while “folx” may seem like a handy abbreviation when you don’t feel like typing out the “k” and the “s” (I get it, you’re busy, we all need shortcuts sometimes), it’s actually a popular stand-in for the word “folks” used by queer-identifying people to refer to groups of other queer-identifying people.

Maybe you’ve seen the word “folx” on Twitter and written it off as a typo or a new bit of texting shorthand that the kids are using these days.

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