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Luin Joy

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☁️ Lu ✨ in 🌞 joy 🪄
🪐art and play and music and words
🏳️‍⚧️ transformer, artist, and coach 🐦‍🔥

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Major life update! 💗💗 Sept 21st (tomorrow) I’ll be having phalloplasty (stage 1/3, Right Radial Forearm skin graft) with the dream team that did my other bottom surgery (metoidioplasty) a few years ago 🥳 it’s another huge step in this decade-long marathon of bodily alignment 🏃🏼‍♂️🏆 7-8hrs of surgery tomorrow, then 5 days in the hospital, and 4-6 weeks of recovery 🥵🏃🏼‍♂️❤️‍🔥

I’ve chosen to stay pretty private about a lot this because it’s vulnerable af and the internet is a scary place but it feels sad to not share about this big moment 💗

It’s taken so much emotional, physical, and administrative work to get here. I have learned SO much about myself throughout these years of planning, waiting, practicing radical acceptance, and becoming an insurance navigation / project management pro.

No two transition paths are the same and that’s both liberating and super overwhelming. I have known for a long time that phalloplasty was my end goal but I took my own unique, patient road to get here and I’m really grateful that I did 🐦‍🔥

At this stage of life- 10 years into my trans spiritual awakening - my conception of self, my masculinity, my transness isn’t about concealing myself or trying to mirror anyone else’s experiences, cis or trans. That’s the whole thesis lol. The entire point of transition for me has been self-possession, divine alignment, and staying committed to the clear vision of my future self that I’ve always imagined.

I want and need a life without acute dysphoria and that finally feels possible on the other side of all this 🙏🏻💗 I’m incredibly grateful to have both @sunny___sol and my mom at my side, helping me feel safe enough to let go and delivering the greatest care I could possibly imagine 😭🫂💗 by @loo_en

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14 days ago

serpent eclipse, 2026
oil on a silk bedsheet
13.5” x 17”

I feel a deep kinship with snakes. They show up spontaneously in my paintings all the time and I think it’s because as beings, they are uncontainable lines- tubes of quiet muscle covered in smooth scales, soft and strong at the same time 🐍 by @loo_en

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Almost 18 months ago, we stumbled upon some once in a lifetime love-magic and oh my lord y’all….👀😭💗🙏🏻🌞

Being with @sunny___sol through this chapter of life has been immensely healing and divine. This love is a safe haven and a playground - when we’re together I feel at home, in both myself and with her. Safe, open, dynamic, alive, and free.

It’s electric joy, easy adoration, and trying any novelty flavor her Gemini self desires 😂

This love is a freshwater ecosystem where all parts of self and invited no matter what that looks like, growing and evolving with acceptance and curiosity. We move through life as a team; an elastic container, capable of adapting to many worlds without losing sight of each other.

We’ve been through massive changes in our time together. It’s challenged me to remain open when I feel most vulnerable. When I was recovering from complex trauma and DV, I learned that healing relational wounds requires safe and loving relationships with trustworthy, compassionate people.

With Sunny, my cautious weary spirit could finally exhale. The frequency of her soul is love. I have never met someone so dedicated to love in all its forms. She’s fought hard to keep it that way- often while her life felt like pushing a boulder up a narrow ledge in the freezing rain.

She’s alchemized deep pain to become an incredibly gifted, humble, warrior healer who changes lives on the daily and it’s stunning to witness her power. Her mind is brilliant, curious, and full of so much wisdom, it’s incredibly hot y’all 😭❤️‍🔥 She lives life with her whole heart and inspires me to do the same. She’s brought more softness and joy into my life than I thought possible. It is an honor and a gift to love you @sunny___sol ❤️‍🔥🫂❤️‍🔥

Alas, there’s bittersweet changes ahead for us 😔 I’ll be moving to LA in April and while it feels deeply aligned for my life, living so far apart will be a massive shift. We’ve both felt that our relationship may gradually take a different form but for now we are enjoying the present and every bit of this divine joy filled love 🫂 by @loo_en

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8 months ago

💗✨💗 TODAY MARKS ONE WHOLE DECADE OF DEVOTION !!!✨💗✨🥳

10 years ago today ✨January 8th 2016 ✨ I started my medical transition, while still living in Georgia, and my life changed forever. It feels unreal that it’s been this long.

I’m so incredibly proud of 22-year-old-me. He had no idea what was ahead of us and he did it anyway. The internet was not like it is today 💀 in general, transition related resources were scarce and outdated.

I chose to pursue this highly vulnerable, private dream for the chance of a better life- instead of listening to hate, ignorance, scarcity, and the fear of so many unknowns.

5 surgeries later, this journey has been fucking wild. I am so grateful to be alive, to be in this body, and to be entering another decade of divine trans embodiment 🫂💗✨ by @loo_en

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9 months ago

“between the motion and the act”, 2025
oil on wood
6” x 8”

this title came from a book I’m reading about tennis psychology and I think about it often 🎾 Tis the season for prints yall, dm to obtain this bad boy 💗 by @loo_en

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10 months ago

“Peeled Banana Snake”, 2025
Oil on canvas
36” x 24”

You ever make something and you’re like damn this piece feels 1000% like me?? 😭🥹 that’s how I feel about this snake lol. The tail rings, the knowing moon, the clouds in space. All of it. And this painting has some secret BTM (big trans magic) on the back too 👀

I painted a self-portrait on this canvas in 2011, (pre-trans awakening), and signed the back with my name/signature at the time. When I decided to reclaim this canvas a few months ago, a snake came forward from god knows where lol with all his funny lil details and mysterious parts.

I signed it again as myself today, lovingly witnessing the 14 years between old and new me 🥹 by @loo_en

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10 months ago

“Vile Affections” on NEW CREATURE ✨album coming soon✨

All year, this type of sound play has been part of my practice in reclaiming power / narrative from public discourse that’s hell bent on defining trans and queer people as dangerous and 🔥 wholly unholy 🔥

It’s so extreme that at some point, their absurdity and hysteria just spontaneously combusts into an ironic, sticky mess of glitter and wet confetti.

My spiritual life has become a wide, dense field that provides sustenance for my survival and instructions for being in the world. A lot of this album is about faith, surrender, and the experience of being accompanied by forces much greater than my single, limited human self.

Letting go of controlling tendencies is not the same as losing control. It’s an invitation. It’s an expression of agency and trust. There is always so much more beyond me or you. What a relief. by @loo_en

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10 months ago

“to be trans is to be sacred” track 1/23 on NEW CREATURE 💗💫 album coming soon

This is a deeeeeply vulnerable body of work. It’s a slow motion walk-thru of my inner world. As I wrap up the final touches this week, I’m feeling a big mix of excitement and fear.

I’ve been working on this album since 2022, holding it close to my chest and allowing it to grow at its own pace. We’ve grown and changed tremendously together. Since the project started, I have become an entirely new creature.

Every song, even the shortest ones, are like 5 course meals from different moments of my life.

There’s 23 songs in total, 3+ years of labor, with field recordings from 2018-2025.

Feeling like it’s finally time to release and let it live in the world💗🥳🪄 by @loo_en

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10 months ago

“a home of my own”, 2025
acrylic on hardboard
6” x 8”

occasional containers,
a small expansive world with shelves for
precious dusty sit arounds.
socks on the floor and a cushion for prayers.
what I love most about my space is me 🥹 by @loo_en

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Coaching has been a deeeeeply soul nourishing practice in my life- both giving and receiving. It’s dynamic caregiving, it’s anti-perfect world-building, and it’s relational healing in real time.

This work is sacred and alive. This type of healing holds BIG 🌊 Ace of Cups Energy⛲️ for me because it generates abundance by working with all that we already have and denying the notion of needing to “fix ourselves” in order to be free. It’s active resistance through softening and unfurling.

3 PATHS:

✨CREATIVE COACHING
✨GENDER LITERACY
✨SPIRITUAL FITNESS

I’ve been gently cooking these offerings for the past few years and it feels really good to be sharing this meal with yall 🙏🏻💗 if you or anyone you know would benefit from this work, my website overfloweth with info ⛲️book a FREE 30 min consult and let’s chat! 🥰🌊 LINK IN BIO ✨🌞 by @loo_en

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a year ago

We’re back for November 30th yall ❤️‍🔥 Hosting virtual Magic + Making events with @sarahmilkomedium has awakened a dimension of my creative practice that I hadn’t fully met before. Honestly, these events have been so healing in ways that I never expected.

Painting and drawing have always lived in a kind of ethereal, internal, watery space for me that’s about devotion, deep listening, and allowing. Through my early 20s, I would spend as much time as possible every week making paintings and drawings. But for many years, I completely lost contact with that part of my art practice 💔

Through the process of earning my BFA and MFA in highly competitive, often brutal art world environments, I learned to build hard shells of reason and theory around the parts of my work that are hard to “justify” or explain. Especially things guided by intuitive forces connected to my dedicated, inner spiritual life.

It’s been a longgg process of integrating and healing but since early last year, I finally found my way back to painting and drawing from a place of wonder and joy. That is where these channeled pieces come from. They are for and about you, generated through @sarahmilkomedium and I holding you, deeply listening and lovingly witnessing.

M+M is always virtual and we’ve got 8 spots still available for this month- tickets in my bio 💗💫🪄 November 30th 6-8pm EST ! by @loo_en

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Nov 30th we are at it again. Intuitive advice, inspiring conversation, and art all rolled into one exceptional experience.

Luin and I create something super unique and inviting every time we put on this event. Join us for this November MAGIC & MAKING event!

Get your ticket in bio or DM me to ask how you can gift a ticket for the holidays. by @loo_en

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