DECEMBER 7 EDITION

“Best of 2025” at Salvation South: Andy Fogle and Chuck Reece name their No. 1 poems of the year—Jacqueline Allen Trimble’s blues-soaked elegy and F. Dylan Waguespack’s searing hymn for a homeless father—alongside two deep walks through the Southern verse that moved us most.

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Purenudism Rusianbare 【2025】

Naturism offers a direct path to that acceptance. You don't have to memorize affirmations in the mirror. You don't have to deconstruct your internalized fatphobia through years of therapy (though that helps). You just have to take off your clothes, walk into the sunshine, and realize that no one cares.

Commercialized body positivity often feels like a trap. We are told to “love your rolls” while still being sold shapewear to smooth them. We are told to embrace cellulite while filters remove it in real-time. The result is toxic positivity —the pressure to feel good about a body that society simultaneously tells you is wrong. Purenudism Rusianbare

Psychologists call this —constantly viewing yourself from an outsider’s perspective. And it is exhausting. Naturism offers a direct path to that acceptance