by Ade Grossi

Institutionally approved Italian mandates binary gender inflectional markers, precluding speakers from communicating in a non-gendered manner. For many non-binary users this means not being able to adequately refer to themselves and their experiences. In the past few decades, both activists and scholars have been working on and promoting different grammatical strategies to move beyond binary gender communication. Nonetheless, the vast majority of Italian speakers are either unaware of or opposed to these advancements,