SWERFy

English

Alternative forms

• SWERF-y
• swerfy

Etymology

SWERF +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈswɜːfi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈswɝfi/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi

Adjective

SWERFy (comparative SWERFier, superlative SWERFiest)

1. (informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to anti-sex work feminism.
   • 2021 February 9, nifty nif (@nifty_nif), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Maybe this year we stop saying brandwh*re? Maybe that slur doesn't belong to all of us?? Maybe we think about the SWERFy streak in our community??? Just some thoughts

   • 2021 November 21, natrix (@crypt0natrix), Twitter‎^[2]:

     The most artistic SWers I know don’t want to make NFTs because they see how misogynistic, transphobic, racist and SWERFy the culture is.

   • 2022 February 25, Raani Begum (@raanibegum), Twitter‎^[3]:

     I was in a panel today & pushed back against "public health" narratives that position people selling sex + using drugs as traumatized people first. This is actually a really SWERFy position to take.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:SWERFy.