In the school in Girona that I attended as a child, Carol Law Lee, of Chinese origin, was for a long time the only girl with parents from abroad. “I felt exotic. The older students would touch my hair and say it looked like threads!”, she recalls. Years later, however, another Chinese girl arrived, whom she “felt close to” and “was very eager to meet”.

We live in strange times: hatred has become a national pastime. It doesn't take much to ignite it: three headlines, two talk shows, and a couple of tweets, and suddenly half the country is judging the other half from the comfort of their sofas, with pre-packaged opinions. Curiously, in this race to point fingers, schools are always mentioned. As if the social fracture were the fault of a poorly corrected dictation or a badly presented media project.

High-complexity schools are today the vanguard of our education system. Where dozens of languages, histories, and expectations coexist, the harshest social inequalities and the most transformative opportunities are also concentrated. In these contexts, the Catalan language plays a decisive role: it can become the passport that opens the door to equal opportunities or, if not worked on intensively and rigorously, it can become another factor of inequality.

In Perfectly imperfect (Universo), writer and screenwriter Carla Gracia constructs a fictional narrative to address very real issues: life with a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the lack of shared responsibility in parenting, and the complexity of family relationships. A theatrical adaptation is already in preparation. And this September, she will publish the children's book. The Adventures of Capybara and His Friends.

At a time when polarization and hate speech against minorities are spreading, and when face-to-face communication between people is increasingly difficult to achieve, there is a movement in Copenhagen that goes against the grain. In a green corner of the Danish capital is the "human library" (Menneskebiblioteket in Danish), where, unlike traditional libraries, you don't borrow books, but rather people with whom you can converse. Each book on its shelves represents a group of people who are not very visible in society and who are often subjected to prejudice, discrimination or stigmatization.

Male and female. Masculine and feminine. This binary classification of the world leaves out many people who do not identify with it. They are the people with other gender identities and sexual orientations represented by the acronym LGTBI+. The new generations claim this diversity and push society to look beyond genitalia.