![]() The school librarian had news: Sanders was on television wearing her mittens.Įllis smiled - and silenced her phone. ![]() “I think someone is trying to reach you,” one of her second-graders said. Teaching online at Westford Elementary School, Ellis ignored her cellphone on Inauguration Day as it dinged with text message upon text message. ![]() 20, 2021, the swearing-in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Returning home for the summer, she eyed her bedroom closet full of prom dresses and stuffed animals.Įllis went on to give Sanders his mittens, then to witness the Donald Trump presidency, Covid-19 pandemic, and, on Jan. “I viewed my growing love for other women as something that needed to be straightened out, both figuratively and literally.”Įllis found a UVM staffer who offered support before the internet allowed confidential searches. “Throughout my entire childhood, the deep shadow of the AIDS crisis lurked in every conversation about homosexuality and instilled fear and heightened homophobia in our already intolerant culture,” she writes. But when Ellis arrived in 1996, what’s now history had yet to happen. Today, the Green Mountain State is known as the first in the nation to adopt same-sex civil unions, in 2000, and full marriage rights by a legislative vote, in 2009. “It was in her class that I started to develop the skills I needed to save myself.”Įllis kept sewing right up to enrolling at the University of Vermont. Collett’s class, my mind was focused and I was happy,” she writes. Then she walked into a home economics classroom full of sewing machines. Trying to numb the shame with food, she gained weight and lost her sense of self-worth. ![]() “I was that kid who accepted ice cream cups and attention from a man I thought I could trust.”Įllis was a grade-schooler when she was sexually abused. “When people make jokes about not taking candy from strangers, it isn’t that funny to me,” the 45-year-old begins when putting her thoughts on paper. The full story, Ellis knew, was much less warm and fuzzy. Her short answer: As a friend of Sanders’ daughter-in-law, she passed on the pair as a consolation prize after his unsuccessful bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., reporters from BuzzFeed to the BBC asked the same question: What spurred her to stitch together wool-sweater remnants and recycled-plastic fleece? When Vermonter Jen Ellis woke on Inauguration Day 2021 to a blizzard of interest in the mittens she’d made for U.S. Although I don't like paying this much for pennies, I really wanted these designs.Vermonter Jen Ellis is author of the new memoir “Bernie’s Mitten Maker.” Photo by Sally McCay The artwork is easily recognizable, even given the small size.ģ pennies came within 2 weeks of my purchase. ![]() I love this set of Bernie Sanders! Great pressings, and my friends want a set for themselves. Great to have such great political memorabilia Posted by Erika c Griesemer on 7th Feb 2021 Product was great, readable and in great shape! Very satisfied with pricing and quality of this product.
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