The eyes of boys and girls often become the lens through which a father begins to rediscover the world around him. And so I, too, through the questions and observations of my two daughters, have found myself wondering about a world made up of watertight compartments, in which little girls are subjugated from an early age by Cinderellas (with Blue Princes attached) or anorexic doll shapes, the ubiquitous color pink and the ever-present princess crowns.

I came across Giorgia’s book almost by chance (my young daughter, who had found herself and her Spiderman backpack in Cloe’s story, brought it to me triumphantly) and found in it the script of my daily life, where the little girls’ questions lay bare a series of gender stereotypes that can no longer be tolerated…

So I found myself thinking that it would be nice, and even effective, to translate this world into images, precisely through Cloe’s story, but I would not have but imagined that it would begin a journey that took us to talk about gender stereotypes from Japan to Hungary to Saudi Arabia. To arrive now at the best possible distribution: that aimed at the world of schooling and education, to make sure that this work can become a useful tool for the unveiling of all those stereotypes that are a blinker to a broader sense of freedom.

On this journey we have made our own a phrase by Angela Davis that also appears on Cloe’s T-shirt:

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

Federico Micali