Bea Woods

'Keep it moving' is a pseudo-autobiographical reflection on Bea's experiences whilst beginning her medical transition. She draws a surrealist perspective of herself as context to inform a sense of regression into childhood. As her second puberty brings challenges, she has to contend with being an adult and professional. She wants to reiterate the impersonal aspects of a personal experience and highlight the importance of integrating the many aspects of the self through nonlinear views of time. Find her on @way_to_bea_me

Keep it Moving

Anxiety dissolved in a dizzying sense of clarity. 

The precarious state of livelihood feels like fairytale told to twins.

Coming to as a consciousness in your mid twenties has a habit of shining a light on your shadow. Neurological finesse comes in routine, pills and patches. 

Two months to catch yourself in a fall. 

Three months to find focus in old, now unfamiliar comforts. 

Security and reliability has never felt so wrong. 

Two lives lived. 

It fades. 

Unrecognizable. Polished.

New fuel, still the same fallible machine.

Bea is a project manager, intersectional activist and femme queen in the Welsh Ballroom Community. She is currently developing her artistic practice in fashion, poetry and performance. Her focus in her professional pursuit in activism is to promote compassion as a philosophical framework through pushing mutual aid, mental health advocacy and developing healthy community spaces.

Bea grew up in South Wales in a mix of ethical socialist and conservative evangelical Christian upbringing. Having such contradicting worldviews in childhood has created a drive for learning and education, trying to put words to subconscious experience, and the importance of unlearning. Her transition formally began when she was introduced to the Welsh Ballroom Community in November of 2023. Bea owes much of her new-found confidence in her self-expression to her trans-siblings within the community.

In her arts pursuits you can find a sense of ‘people as context, not content’ closely linked to transition. She is also exploring a general regression that comes with finding your authentic self. She hopes to bring a sense of mystical realism to all her work. Bea also wrote a template email to support other people to come out in the workplace.