I’m Nicoz Balboa a trans and neurospicy award-winning visual artist, tattooer, and storyteller.

I’m Italian, but I’ve been living in France for 24 years. I’m a trans man and a mother of a teen.

I love creating connections through art, humor, and honesty.

While my Patreon page is my art studio, this Substack is my creative living room. Here you’ll find:

✸ BALBOA P🌲RK🎢 - the relaxed outdoor spot in the garden, my podcast about creativity and self-determination. Episodes appear mostly every 3rd week of the month, I wold like to post a new episode monthly but isn’t always like this. but the archive is full of past épisodes available.

✸ Frociə in TRANSlation: Notes on Queerness and Self-Narration - the spot in front of the fireplace, near the bookshelf and the coffee table. My newsletter, mixing drawings, text, and queer reflections, comes out once a month, usually the first week.

I randomly share all the things that help me grow as a human and an artist from ADHD survival hacks to visual journals, from tattoos to gender journeys.

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Subscribe to join me for a coffee and some real talk about what it means to live, draw, and grow as yourself. 🌈

Receive my monthly newsletter, stay updated on the podcast, discover my art projects, and hear about tattoo dates, merch drops, and queer reflections.

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Podcast episodes of BALBOA P🌲RK🎢 arrive mostly every 3rd week of the month and you can always catch the archive online or on Patreon.

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xxx

Nicoz