Rainbow Universities. Alias Careers in Universities as a Communication Dispositive within the Framework of Gender and Sexuality Education.

The article aims to analyze the alias career in universities from a communicative perspective, with the goal of identifying its strengths and weaknesses within a context marked by the persistence of gender ideology, which constantly threatens individual and collective freedoms, and by the absence of structured programs on gender and sexuality education. Based on an exploratory analysis of the alias career employed in a sample of three Italian universities evenly distributed across the country (the Universities of Turin, Urbino, and Catania), the research seeks to identify key elements and ‘best practices’ of the alias career. In this context, one of the most significant issues is how gender differences (and non-binary identities) are addressed and discussed within educational, training, and instructional settings in Italy, particularly regarding the way gender issues are presented and the educational and communicative approaches adopted by the involved institutions. The objective of the study is therefore to reflect on the progressive reduction of discrimination against non-normative identities (which also involves administrative procedures), with a view toward promoting social inclusion and advancing gender and sexuality education.