Josephine Yole Signorelli, better known under her professional artist name of Fumettibrutti, is nominated by Djarah Kan. She is an Italian cartoonist, writer and activist, and one of the most important voices of the new Italian comics scene. Fummetibrutti is seen as a symbol of something that is changing in contemporary still conservative Italy. 

Educated in Catania and Bologna, she quickly became an internet celebrity after opening her art project on social networks, and debuted in ‘Feltrinelli Comics’, inaugurated in 2018, winning the Micheluzzi Award for Best First Work at Napoli Comicon, the Cecchetto Award for Best Emerging Talent at the Treviso Comic Festival, and the Grand Guinigi for Best Newcomer at Lucca Comics & Games. Her graphic novels – including Romanzo esplicito, P. La mia adolescenza trans and Anestesia – combine formal experimentation with an explicit, unapologetic engagement with gender, violence, and the everyday lives of precarious and marginalized youth in Italy.

As a transgender feminist author, her public voice and work challenge transphobic narratives and insist on the full recognition of trans women within feminist and queer debates. Her books and public interventions have made trans experiences visible in a cultural context that remains deeply hostile, opening space for new imaginaries, new languages and new forms of solidarity. In this sense, her practice is profoundly political, and has had a clear public impact on how gender, bodies and rights are discussed in Italy.