Hamid Hmata has had to wait four years to see the real estate agency fined 10,000 euros from Mataró, who refused to rent him a home, even though his salary is above the Catalan average. In the end, more than money, it has been shown that it was a matter of surname and ethnic origin different from the hegemonic ones. This case is a textbook example of real estate racism, a sum of discriminatory practices that go far beyond individual behavior and that flow above all through laws and intermediaries who channel racialized people—foreigners but also Roma—towards housing of worse conditions.

In the early hours of December 16, 2005, three young men from Sarrià-Sant Gervasi went Burning alive a woman who was sleeping in an ATM vestibule on Guillem Tell Street. Previously, the assailants—aged 18 and 16—had surrounded and insulted Rosario Endrinal, who, fed up with them, locked herself in that small space, believing it to be safe. But the younger one tricked her into opening the door, and then, to her surprise, the other two boys threw solvent they had found at a nearby construction site on her and set her on fire.

Two National Police officers will stand trial accused of falsifying a public document. The officers reported and fined a woman from Terrassa for allegedly refusing to identify herself, which the prosecution claims is untrue. The Terrassa Court of Instruction Number 4 has decided to send them to trial after three years of litigation. Prosecutors are seeking four years in prison for each officer, a four-year ban from working in public administration, and a fine.

It was not until November 2023 that the Dictionary of the Catalan Language of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans admitted the concept of ageism as discrimination based on age. Despite the youth of this term, the formulas and fashions with which it is applied pass from generation to generation and become especially severe with age. psychogerontologist Montse Celdrán has collected fifty of these expressions in the Glossary on ageism that the La Caixa Foundation published two years ago. The booklet is the result of prior work among users of the entity's clubs on the stereotypes surrounding old age, the comments that make them feel bad, and their self-perception. "Language is not innocuous," says Celdrán, who is part of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of Barcelona. The expert also points to the desire to raise awareness and change these discriminatory expressions.

Ageism, the discrimination against someone simply because they are older or younger, is a real problem. That's why we're dedicating this weekend's dossier to it. We explain what it is and how it affects us, with witnesses who have experienced or continue to experience this discrimination and experts who analyze it. We also offer a glossary of terms specific to this phenomenon and testimony from a surprising case that ended up in court.

"Which actresses over 60 do you have in mind?" The question is asked. Vicenta Ndongo, actress still in her fifties, who had previously said how she was amazed at the lack of knowledge that exists among the talent pool of actors who fill television and platform series with names like Maribel Verdú, who has dedicated her entire life to the sector. "You get older and you disappear," she proclaims, not without pointing out that in her case, as a racialized woman, she also does not fit the "stereotypical mother." For the moment, she has not played a grandmother yet, she clarifies.

Reality repeats itself to the point of boredom, and that boredom can be a deterrent when it comes to writing about what's wrong, what's unfair, what's discriminatory. That's why, much to my chagrin, we need to be tiresome.

The company is called Teatro Sin Papeles, which already tells you that those who are part of it "act like dissidents." The kind, controlled, and necessary measure of dissent. Yes, they're called Sin Papeles, but undocumented the administration is not billed, and this work, which has raised dust and has forced several councilors to apologize (I believe them), it was a commission from Barcelona City Council.

Barcelona City Council apologized this Friday for the crisis generated by a performance against racial, gender, origin, and class discrimination that discriminated against Catalan and its speakers. This paradox occurred on Tuesday, as if that weren't enough, at the presentation of the Barcelona Discrimination Observatory 2024 Report, which showed that racism, gender, health, LGBTQ+ orientation, and, fifthly, the Catalan language are the main reasons for discrimination. At a public event held by City Council, the amateur company Teatro Sin Papeles, made up of migrant women of Latin American origin, was given space to perform a fragment of their show. Those LatinasIt turned out that the fragment ridiculed Catalan speakers and denounced—in Spanish—situations such as doctors speaking Catalan, jobs requiring the country's language, and the use of Catalan in reception centers. It also included the fact that they weren't hired despite having completed "level C2 of Catalan" because they weren't native speakers.

I compulsively read an article in the magazine Science from last week, which arrived via email from across the Atlantic. As I read on, my eyes bulged, and by the time I finished, the pressure on my eyes had tears streaming down my cheeks. I wiped them away and wrote. I wanted to share it. And here I am.

Fighting against increasingly normalized racism. With this premise, the Top Manta union, along with some seventy social organizations, is promoting "the first anti-racist race" in Barcelona, ​​​​similar to those held in other European cities. The event will be on Sunday, June 1, and beyond the thousand runners authorized by the City Council, the organizers are confident that the race will be a massive mobilization in the face of a "sociopolitical context that closely resembles the period between the wars, when Nazism took advantage of the situation to rise to power," warned Aziz Faye, spokesperson, this Thursday. "The race must be a historic and forceful mobilization against racism and hate speech," he summarized.

March 8 will be packed with the usual gender-related data. There is no need to be too imaginative: the persistence of wage gaps, the lower presence of women in positions of responsibility and the higher rates of poverty among women. There will be talk of the need for more policies, education and awareness.

Medical research has long been a field with an androcentric vision. Melina Kibbe, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Virginia in the US, became aware of this reality when a colleague asked her: "What about females?" Until then, in her studies on cardiovascular diseases, Kibbe had used male rats without question. Her experience is not unique. Despite advances in awareness of the need to include females in research (mandatory in the US since 2016), inequality persists, with consequences for the health of millions of women.

Thousands of attacks against religious minorities, women, migrants or the LGTBIQ collective go unpunished every day throughout the European Union. Between 40% and 90% of victims of so-called hate crimes choose not to report the attack, partly because they distrust official institutions or are afraid of reprisals for pointing out who their attackers are. The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) warns of this in a report in which it encourages reporting and making visible expressions of intolerance. Extrapolating from this, the 1,700 complaints of discriminatory attacks that were registered in Spain in 2019, the last year collected by the CGPJ, are the tip of the iceberg.