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L. J. Roberts
L.J. Roberts is an American fiber art, textile artist. Roberts, who is genderqueer and uses ''singular they'' pronouns, explores queer and feminist politics in their work. Early life and education Early life Roberts grew up in a suburb of Detroit, and they were initially taught to knit by their grandmother at age seven. At thirteen, they left home and moved in with another family. As a teenager, they were sent to an Episcopal all-girls boarding school in Maryland despite being Jewish, at a time when they were "dykey, angry, rebellious" and "grappling with [their] own sexuality and gender". In 1996, they viewed the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington D.C.; this was the first time they'd seen "queer lexicon and militancy". Roberts was then sent to a boarding school in California in an attempt to "feminize" their behavior and dress. Education Roberts attended college at the University of Vermont, where they resumed knitting after suffering a severe injury that limited their acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
