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Elisa Shoenberger

Elisa Shoenberger is an academic out of academia. She has a BA in Latin American History from the University of Chicago, a MA in Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago. She is an oral historian, writing a book on women in the arts in Chicago. She is a reader for the Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal. Most recently, she is the co-editor and co-founder of the Antelope Magazine.

Handling Living in between Two Places in a Relationship

LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

26 Jul

Who Stays Where, When, and Why I was at the stage of a relationship where I was spending most of my time at my boyfriend’s […]

Puns, Regicide and Snowball Fights: One Couple’s Celebration of St. Valentine’s Day

DATING ADVICE, LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

14 Feb

Some couples have romantic dinners or go on exotic vacations for Valentine’s Day. We took a different route. My husband and I find something decidedly […]

Beyond the Gender Norm: Taking a Married Name

LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

21 Dec

I realized that there were far more stories to tell about this, especially beyond the heterosexual continuum. When a person gets married, they are presented […]

When You Say “I Do,” Does That Mean “I Do Take Your Name?”

LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS

05 Oct

For women, a name change after marriage went from being an assumed practice to a contentious subject in the past few decades. Following the feminist […]