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The meeting took place during the VII edition of the Festival del Classico. with Ugo Cardinale // linguist, curator of the festival According to the normative tradition of Aristotelian origin, genders and species are expressions of immutable essences that are reflected in categories and language; and the human race is articulated in a binary scheme. In the 20th century, the feminist movement theorized the “performativity of gender” giving rise to gender trouble, the gender in question. The queer movement broadens horizons to the fluidity of gender. This conceptual and social earthquake produces a linguistic battle that oscillates between entrenchments and inclusions with uncertain outcomes and raises new dilemmas. There is no shortage of proposals. Problems remain.