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Andersonville, Chicago’s “Shop Local Capital”: Surviving Three Waves of Globalization?
“Opened in 1979, open today, open forever” – the three huge eye-catching slogans on the glass wall of the independent bookstore Women & Children First, one of the most famous feminist bookshop in the US located in Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago, seems like telling people coming that we’ll stick here and won’t leave, however, the truth is that...
Privilege Rethink: A Lesson from Rainbow in Andersonville
Rainbow was the first word that emerged when we were wandering around in Andersonville. Almost every storefront has a rainbow flag waving in the window, which mellows the street scene with marvelous colors. As a cozy neighborhood that straddles the border between Edgewater and Uptown neighborhoods, Andersonville is considered as a Swedish culture neighborhood and a gayborhood as well,...
ASSOCIATING ANTIQUES WITH LGBTQ+ IN ANDERSONVILLE: DEGENDERING AND INCLUSIVENESS
Walking on the streets in Andersonville, two things will immediately catch your eyes: a number of vintage shops and rainbow flags. Andersonville, a neighborhood on Chicago’s north side, is the home to many antique stores and the largest LGBTQ+ community in Chicago. Superficially, these two features are unrelated to each other: the former reminds people of the old times,...