Bodies are good and holy.

Bodies are good and holy. 

Your body is good and holy.

Your body is good and holy if you have more fat, or less fat, or more muscles, or less muscles, than is socially acceptable.  (Fuck socially acceptable.)

Your hair texture and skin color and nose width and thigh thickness are good and holy.

Your body is good and holy if it doesn’t do the same thing as everyone else’s, if it hurts sometimes, if it need care sometimes.  (Everybody’s does.)

Your body is good and holy if you use it to have sex, or if you don’t want to have sex, or if the person or people you want to have sex with don’t desire you.  Your body is good and holy if you are conventionally hot and other people impose desire you don’t want on you.

Your body is good and holy if someone or ones have done things to it that you didn’t want them too.  Your body still belongs to you.  Your struggle to reclaim it as yours is good and holy. 

Your body is good and holy if it is male or female or both or neither.

Your body is good and holy if it matches your gender identity or if it doesn’t.  The way you use or modify your body to express your gender is good and holy.  Your body is good and holy if it “passes,” or not, if it conforms to conventional gender or not.

Your body is good and holy if you menstruate, or if you don’t.  Your body is good and holy if it has carried children, or if it has not.  Your body is good and holy if you get erections, or if you don’t.

Your body is good and holy if it is aging.  Your body is good and holy if it smells funky sometimes.  (All bodies do.)

Your body will be good and holy when you die.

Your body is good and holy if it has disappointed you.  Your body is good and holy if you sometimes feel ashamed of it, or have a hard time taking care of it the way you know you should.  We all do.

Everyone else’s body is good and holy in the same way.  We are surrounded by good and holy bodies. We get to see them and smell them, and respect them.  Sometimes we get to touch them and care for them.  How good and holy!