I’ve made previous designs for Elizabeth Warren (scroll down) and here is a new version.

2020 UPDATE

During the February 19th Democratic debate, Warren made sharp and clever jabs at her rivals, as well as what has been widely acknowledged to be a fatal attack on Bloomberg’s candidacy. Afterward, she was called savage, and the reaction of many women was gleeful. She was tough and aggressive. “Yes! Knives out!” I said to myself. It was a Facebook post by Rebecca Solnit which helped me see the toughness as a loving power, and encouraged me to stay away from the language of violence. Her phrase was “Love in Action.” See: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.solnit/posts/10157728635685552.  

Here is what I posted on Facebook before Warren dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary… Elizabeth Warren will be the best president: smart, prepared, tough, and caring. She embraces the powers of consensus and consent. She listens to people and she takes them seriously. She is not condescending and she is not mean. Her campaign is welcoming, kind, caring, and committed. We can recognize her fighting, her toughness, as a loving power, the way we recognize the effective aggression of a mother bear. She is fierce. She is experienced. She is wise. She is funny. She is human.

Previous Designs

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General info pertaining to earlier designs as well:

“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said those words after the U.S. Senate voted to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren’s objections to the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. She was reading a letter from Coretta Scott King about Sessions’ racist policies as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.

According to Daniel Victor of The New York Times, “A broader theme—that women are too commonly shushed or ignored—emerged on social media.” Victor also noted that “a man silencing a woman struck some as all too common”, and “rang familiar with many women who had their own stories of being silenced.” The Atlantic’s Megan Garber wrote, “American culture tells women to be quiet—in many ways they are reminded that they would really be so much more pleasing if they would just smile a little more, or talk a little less, or work a little harder to be pliant and agreeable.” Further, she wrote, when Senator Warren was silenced, “many women, regardless of their politics or place…felt that silencing, viscerally… Because, regardless of their politics or place, those women have heard the same thing, or a version of it, many times before.”

Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American academic and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party and is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts. Warren was formerly a professor of law, and taught at the University of Texas School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and most recently at Harvard Law School. A prominent scholar specializing in bankruptcy law, Warren was among the most cited in the field of commercial law before starting her political career.

Warren’s untiring advocacy work for consumer financial protection is founded on her personal experience of financial vulnerability. Warren was born in, Oklahoma, to middle class parents. She has described her family as teetering “on the ragged edge of the middle class” and “kind of hanging on at the edges by our fingernails.”  When she was 12, her father, a janitor, had a heart attack—which led to many medical bills, as well as a pay cut. Eventually, this led to the loss of their car from failure to make loan payments. To help the family finances, her mother found work, and, when she was 13, Warren started waiting tables at her aunt’s restaurant.

Adapted from Wikipedia