This is for a class.

This is my body.

5'6. 125lb. Long. Strong. Bass-bumped and full of feeling.

This body has seen so much.

Suicide plans.

Sexual violence.

Self-starvation.

This body has seen so much.

Ballet recitals.

Road trips.

Love.

This body is mine and it is young and full of experience and potential.

This body is queer.

This body is strong.

This body rejects the gender binary.

This body craves knowledge.

This body is so, so full of love.

This body has also struggled and fought like hell to stay here.

This body is mine and it doesn't need your destructive beauty standard bullshit.