Ciało i seksualność transpłciowej nastolatki w memuarach graficznych włoskiej autorki Fumettibrutti
The Body and Sexuality of a Transgender Teenage Girl in the Graphic Memoirs by Italian Author Fumettibrutti

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyses two graphic novels by Italian comic book author Josephine Yole Signorelli (nom de plume: Fumettibrutti): Romanzo esplicito [Explicit Novel] (2018) and P. La mia adolescenza trans [P.: My Trans Adolescence] (2019), exploring how they depict the body and sexuality of a transgender teenager and her path to self-acceptance. On the one hand, despite the seemingly linear and expected process of transition, the heroine does not completely reject her non-normative adolescence, stating her teenage sexuality allowed her to explore her identity. On the other hand, by taking hormones and turning to a more socially acceptable object of affection, she seems to be pursuing normative femininity. Despite the happy ending, a contradiction remains in the heroine-narrator-author between normativity and non-normativity, between striving to fit in with the norms and being happy and proud of one's difference. In her analysis, the author of the paper uses the concepts of graphic avatar, graphic memoir and queerness in comics, and Kathryn Bond Stockton's idea of the queer child "growing sideways."

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