By Emil Wilbekin ·Updated April 29, 2022
“For me, beauty isn’t just this idea of a beautiful woman with blue eyes and blonde hair,” explains visual artist Deborah Roberts, speaking from her home in Austin, Texas. “It is the iconic girl, the grandma, like Ida B. Wells, strong women who probably are not considered beautiful by Western standards, but who are beautiful in their own way, in the way they protect
