L.J. Roberts

[6] As a teenager, they were sent to an Episcopal all-girls boarding school in Maryland despite being Jewish,[6] at a time when they were "dykey, angry, rebellious" and "grappling with [their] own sexuality and gender".

[4][5] In 2003 they created their first activist textile piece, dropping a hand-knit pink triangular banner from the campus church steeple that read "Mom Knows Now"; this served both as their coming out and as an homage to ACT UP activism against AIDS.

[10] Moreover, Roberts finds that the issues of marginality they encounter as a queer, gender non-conforming and non-binary person, directly mirror the position(s) of textile and craft within visual culture.

[5] A work of Roberts, The Queer Houses of Brooklyn in the Three Towns of Breukelen, Boswyck, and Midwout during the 41st Year of the Stonewall Era, was displayed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[2][13] The work, which was subsequently purchased by the Smithsonian,[14] was part of the 2012 40 Under 40: Craft Future exhibition in the Renwick Gallery, featuring artists born since 1972.

[15][13] In 2017, Roberts worked publicly in the galleries of the Museum of Arts and Design as part of the exhibition Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field.