Jes Simmons’ relationship with her transness growing up in Natchez was not only indescribable to her personally, but also to the rest of her world. Christine Jorgensen, the United States’ first widely known openly trans person, had only recently come into the public eye in 1952, and the words transgender and gender dysphoria were hardly the mots du jour they are now.
Clay B. Morris
Clay Morris is a sophomore political science and journalism double major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At UNC he is a style team member for Coulture magazine where he has written about the intersection of race and fashion. In late April, Clay independently broke the news of UNC’s Interfraternity Council holding an event that directly barred women from attending. Clay is an alumnus of the 2018 Mississippi Youth Media Project where he wrote a long-form story on race-based educational disparities across Mississippi.
