Susie Spades (Official Website)
About Me
My name is Susie Spades. As a professional photographer, journalist, full-time off-grid nomad, and dedicated lifestyle naturist, I have chosen a path that is uncompromisingly my own. I move through the world completely barefoot and live almost exclusively nude, stripped clean of the social masks, quiet pretenses, and artificial boundaries that once sought to shape me. My existence is written in total freedom and absolute authenticity, an unyielding refusal to negotiate with societal conditioning, where every breath is lived entirely on my own terms.
I was born in Newnan, Georgia, deep within the rigid heart of the conservative American South. It was a realm where tradition dictated the cadence of daily life, offering women a narrow, pre-written path forged from modesty, obedience, and quiet conformity. Yet from my earliest years, a profound internal instinct told me that this path was not mine. Beneath the stifling weight of expected roles, a radically different truth was quietly waiting to emerge. The turning point finally arrived in my thirties, when the strain of concealing my authentic self became entirely unbearable. I reached a permanent rupture with the past, casting aside every lingering compromise and false presentation to step boldly and unapologetically into total alignment.
Since 2013, I have lived as a full-time practicing lifestyle naturist. This is no mere symbolic gesture or transient weekend escape, but the foundational anchor of my daily existence. Every single day without exception, my bare soles press directly against the raw texture of the earth, and my skin meets the sun, wind, and open air without the barrier of artificial coverings. Absolute nakedness is my true and sacred state of being. Rejecting the superfluous obligation of clothing at every opportunity, I live completely and continuously nude for 240 to 260 days out of every year, fully submerged in the wild freedom of the physical world.
Concurrent with my embrace of naturism, I abandoned the illusion of a stationary home to step fully into a life of perpetual, off-grid movement. My sole sanctuary and gateway across the vast, unfolding landscapes of America is a 1983 Chevy C30 Winnebago Minnie Winnie motorhome. Existing almost entirely off the grid, I drift between remote public lands, sun-bleached desert expanses, and the deep stillness of national forests. Boondocking primarily upon solitary Bureau of Land Management terrain and tucked beneath heavy woodland canopies, I live where nature alone dictates the quiet rhythm of my days.
Driven by true minimalism, I possess only five functional garments reserved strictly for those rare instances when covering myself becomes legally or practically mandatory. My understated wardrobe consists of an ultra-light white bandeau top, small faded denim cutoffs, a thin strapless shift dress, an elegant black spaghetti-strap dress, and a winter coat for harsher climates. Free from consumer clutter, my daily life reserves its full energy for creative purpose. While my body remains untamed by modern apparel, I take quiet pleasure in adorning my skin with distinct silver jewelry, honoring my form with carefully chosen anklets, rings, and piercings.
Professional photography serves as one of my primary modes of engaging with the surrounding world. Through my lens, I capture the raw, immediate, and unfiltered pulse of reality across a broad canvas, ranging from street documentary work and intimate portraiture to architectural forms, seasonal agriculture, wild landscapes, and deep astrophotography. My visual philosophy prioritizes absolute truth over polished artifice. I seek out unscripted moments, natural human forms, and quiet spaces, preserving those subtle, profound fragments of existence that might otherwise slip away unseen.
Parallel to my visual work is my life as a writer, journalist, and researcher. Grounded in a doctorate of philosophy and credentials as a board-certified sexologist, my academic discipline serves as the engine behind my published prose, deep-form interviews, and cultural critique. I write fearlessly into the terrain of human psychology, the architecture of desire, and the raw mechanics of emotional connection. Where mainstream culture enforces silence or discomfort, my work treats desire not as a taboo, but as a primary source of self-knowledge, creative power, and personal transcendence, inviting readers to strip away learned shame and confront their own internal truths.
Alongside these broader explorations, my historical and investigative research delves deeply into specialized cultural dynamics. As a dedicated and active member of the Southern Miscegenation Research Society and the founding director of Daughters of Southern Heritage, my published writing rigorously examines the historical depth, genetic heterosis, generational continuity, and intimate relational realities between black men and white women across the American South.
All of these facets, including my full-time commitment to naturism, my off-grid nomadic wanderings, my visual and written journalism, and my specialized cultural research, do not exist as separate choices. They are the deliberate, harmonized expressions of a single underlying philosophy. Life becomes truly meaningful only when we shatter the mold of enforced conformity, step out from behind social masks, and fully inhabit our absolute truth.
Every morning begins in the quiet interior of my motorhome, where my daily existence is anchored by somatic alignment and deep physical focus before I step out beneath open skies. I step onto the raw earth completely naked and barefoot, meeting the sun, soil, and elements without filter or apology. My life is an intentional synthesis of radical physical freedom and esoteric devotion, where the body is held as a sovereign altar and intimate experience serves as the ultimate vehicle for higher truth. Whether I am navigating off-grid desert solitude, bathing in cold mountain streams, traveling between established group dynamics across the deep South, or channeling creative energy through my lens and pen, every act is deeply deliberate. It is simple, rigorous, and unapologetic. It is expressed in every photograph I take, every study I conduct, and every word I publish, existing as a living testament to a life entirely self-authored and completely my own.
I was born in Newnan, Georgia, deep within the rigid heart of the conservative American South. It was a realm where tradition dictated the cadence of daily life, offering women a narrow, pre-written path forged from modesty, obedience, and quiet conformity. Yet from my earliest years, a profound internal instinct told me that this path was not mine. Beneath the stifling weight of expected roles, a radically different truth was quietly waiting to emerge. The turning point finally arrived in my thirties, when the strain of concealing my authentic self became entirely unbearable. I reached a permanent rupture with the past, casting aside every lingering compromise and false presentation to step boldly and unapologetically into total alignment.
Since 2013, I have lived as a full-time practicing lifestyle naturist. This is no mere symbolic gesture or transient weekend escape, but the foundational anchor of my daily existence. Every single day without exception, my bare soles press directly against the raw texture of the earth, and my skin meets the sun, wind, and open air without the barrier of artificial coverings. Absolute nakedness is my true and sacred state of being. Rejecting the superfluous obligation of clothing at every opportunity, I live completely and continuously nude for 240 to 260 days out of every year, fully submerged in the wild freedom of the physical world.
Concurrent with my embrace of naturism, I abandoned the illusion of a stationary home to step fully into a life of perpetual, off-grid movement. My sole sanctuary and gateway across the vast, unfolding landscapes of America is a 1983 Chevy C30 Winnebago Minnie Winnie motorhome. Existing almost entirely off the grid, I drift between remote public lands, sun-bleached desert expanses, and the deep stillness of national forests. Boondocking primarily upon solitary Bureau of Land Management terrain and tucked beneath heavy woodland canopies, I live where nature alone dictates the quiet rhythm of my days.
Driven by true minimalism, I possess only five functional garments reserved strictly for those rare instances when covering myself becomes legally or practically mandatory. My understated wardrobe consists of an ultra-light white bandeau top, small faded denim cutoffs, a thin strapless shift dress, an elegant black spaghetti-strap dress, and a winter coat for harsher climates. Free from consumer clutter, my daily life reserves its full energy for creative purpose. While my body remains untamed by modern apparel, I take quiet pleasure in adorning my skin with distinct silver jewelry, honoring my form with carefully chosen anklets, rings, and piercings.
Professional photography serves as one of my primary modes of engaging with the surrounding world. Through my lens, I capture the raw, immediate, and unfiltered pulse of reality across a broad canvas, ranging from street documentary work and intimate portraiture to architectural forms, seasonal agriculture, wild landscapes, and deep astrophotography. My visual philosophy prioritizes absolute truth over polished artifice. I seek out unscripted moments, natural human forms, and quiet spaces, preserving those subtle, profound fragments of existence that might otherwise slip away unseen.
Parallel to my visual work is my life as a writer, journalist, and researcher. Grounded in a doctorate of philosophy and credentials as a board-certified sexologist, my academic discipline serves as the engine behind my published prose, deep-form interviews, and cultural critique. I write fearlessly into the terrain of human psychology, the architecture of desire, and the raw mechanics of emotional connection. Where mainstream culture enforces silence or discomfort, my work treats desire not as a taboo, but as a primary source of self-knowledge, creative power, and personal transcendence, inviting readers to strip away learned shame and confront their own internal truths.
Alongside these broader explorations, my historical and investigative research delves deeply into specialized cultural dynamics. As a dedicated and active member of the Southern Miscegenation Research Society and the founding director of Daughters of Southern Heritage, my published writing rigorously examines the historical depth, genetic heterosis, generational continuity, and intimate relational realities between black men and white women across the American South.
All of these facets, including my full-time commitment to naturism, my off-grid nomadic wanderings, my visual and written journalism, and my specialized cultural research, do not exist as separate choices. They are the deliberate, harmonized expressions of a single underlying philosophy. Life becomes truly meaningful only when we shatter the mold of enforced conformity, step out from behind social masks, and fully inhabit our absolute truth.
Every morning begins in the quiet interior of my motorhome, where my daily existence is anchored by somatic alignment and deep physical focus before I step out beneath open skies. I step onto the raw earth completely naked and barefoot, meeting the sun, soil, and elements without filter or apology. My life is an intentional synthesis of radical physical freedom and esoteric devotion, where the body is held as a sovereign altar and intimate experience serves as the ultimate vehicle for higher truth. Whether I am navigating off-grid desert solitude, bathing in cold mountain streams, traveling between established group dynamics across the deep South, or channeling creative energy through my lens and pen, every act is deeply deliberate. It is simple, rigorous, and unapologetic. It is expressed in every photograph I take, every study I conduct, and every word I publish, existing as a living testament to a life entirely self-authored and completely my own.
