This interview with Alpheratz, conducted by Vinay Swamy and Louisa Mackenzie, is a dialogue on linguistic gender and gender identity. It summarizes Alpheratz's experience, presents some of their proposals ("spectral gender" rather than "non-binary gender", neutral grammatical gender called "al system", variation of the French pronoun "on"), specifies their position in relation to political commitment, recalls the roles of science and freedom in language use, and shows that Franco-American linguistic and feminist dialogue is still very much alive.