While in our time categories like gender and race have been shattered like clothes that no longer fit, age persists, dictating behavioral patterns and predicting our future: "She's in the throes of adolescence," "She's having a midlife crisis," "She's too old for that," we hear everywhere, as if we still struggle to critically examine a classification that, like gender or race, seems to align with biology, but is, in reality, a social mechanism designed to instill certain forms of obedience. Teresa Moure analyzes the phenomenon of ageism and agephobia, showing that, far from being limited to old age as is commonly the case, behind seemingly innocuous labels lies a form of control and discrimination exerted across all aspects of life. She thus exposes the insidious metaphors, prejudices, and stereotypes that underpin age as the primary aspect for interpreting our existence and identity, while also reflecting on deviations from this narrative. As Moure argues, it is not about "denying the evidence of time on the skin, but about abandoning the habit of constructing, from them, well-defined stages, of breaking the stages of larva, chrysalis and butterfly."