# Lorenzo Gasparrini

Lorenzo Gasparrini (born 1972) is an Italian philosopher, author, educator and feminist activist.

## Biography

Gasparrini was born in Rome in 1972 and he graduated in philosophy in 1998 at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on Gyorgy Lukacs and the Theory of the Novel. In May 2004, at the University of Bologna, he obtained a PhD in philosophy (aesthetics) with a thesis on Language and literature in Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

## Career

During his philosophy studies and a brief academic career in various universities in central Italy, he discovered feminist literature and its key figures. He decided to focus on promoting and popularizing gender studies, particularly for a male audience. He organized seminars, workshops, and labs in universities, schools, community centers, companies, trade unions, professional associations and self-organized groups. He writes for specialist and popular magazines, both online and in print editions.
Gasparinni's writing is dedicated to feminisms and new masculinities. They are published by Tlon, Settenove, Eris and Effequ. He has been a speaker at the Journalism Festival in Perugia and Elastica in Bologna and he teaches students during their academic master's programs emphasizing the benefits of adopting inclusive language both in professional environments and everyday life..

## Works
### Books

* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2019). I'm not sexist, but... Sexism in contemporary language [I'm not sexist, but... Sexism in contemporary language] (in Italian). Tlon. ISBN 9788899684600.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2019). NO. Del rifiuto e del suo essere un problema essenzialmente maschile [NO. About rejection and its being an essentially male problem] (in Italian). Effequ. ISBN 978-88-98837-41-0.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2020). Perché il femminismo serve anche agli uomini [Why feminism is good for men too] (in Italian). Eris. ISBN 9788898644940.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2016). Diventare uomini. Relazioni maschili senza oppressioni [Becoming men: Male relationships without oppression] (in Italian). Settenove. ISBN 9788898947485.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2023). Ci scalderemo al fuoco delle vostre code di paglia: Perché tutti gli uomini hanno paura dei femminismi [We'll warm ourselves by the fire of your straw tails: Why all men are afraid of feminism] (in Italian). D Editore. ISBN 9788894830941.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2023). I ragazzi possono essere femministi? Tutto quello che i maschi avrebbero sempre voluto sapere (ma non hanno mai osato chiedere) [Can guys be feminists? Everything guys always wanted to know (But were afraid to ask)] (in Italian). Settenove. ISBN 9788898947997.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo (2024). Filosofia: maschile singolare. Un problema di genere in filosofia [Philosophy: Masculine singular. A gender problem in philosophy] (in Italian). Tlon. ISBN 9791255540076.

### Articles

* Gasparrini, Lorenzo. "La costruzione di una possibilità: disertare il patriarcato" [Building a possibility: Deserting patriarchy]. La questione maschile. Archetipi transizioni e metamorfosi (in Italian). Il Poligrafo.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo. "Disertare il patriarcato" [Deserting patriarchy] (PDF). Grammatica e sessismo 2 (in Italian). Universitalia. p. 83-86.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo. "Per una valutazione estetica della pubblicità" [For an aesthetic evaluation of advertising] (PDF). Grammatica e sessismo 2 (in Italian). Universitalia. pp. 87–104.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo. "Le parole fanno male. La riproduzione della violenza discriminatoria sessista attraverso l'uso della lingua" [Words hurt. The reproduction of sexist discriminatory violence through the use of language] (PDF). Grammatica e sessismo 1. Questione di dati? (in Italian). Universitalia. p. 129-137.
* Gasparrini, Lorenzo. "Il mondo-della-vita è altrove. Visioni del mondo in Kundera e Merleau-Ponty" [The lifeworld is elsewhere. Worldviews in Kundera and Merleau-Ponty]. L'amore al tempo del nichilismo (in Italian). Mimesis.