Herstory on movement, migration and celebrating diversity
Updated / Monday, 8 Mar 2021
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Salome Mbugua, Founder of AkiDwA, and Herstory Founder Melanie Lynch
On International Women s Day, Herstory introduces Movement, a new international education project that explores the fact that emigration and immigration are two sides of the same story.
Below, Herstory Founder Melanie Lynch shares her personal story of migration.
My life has been a journey migrating through physical and psychological borders. I crave the liminal - the space between worlds - beyond polarities where reality and the great truths exist. I choose to be an outsider. From this viewpoint, multiple perspectives can be accessed simultaneously and humanity can be experienced in its glorious diversity. Life becomes an adventure, an open book, and I’m all the richer for it.
1/17/2021 6:41:56 AM
Shirley A. McCalley, 86, died peacefully on January 15, 2021 at Delmar Gardens of O’Fallon from complications of COVID-19. She spent her last afternoon with her beloved daughter and grandson; if you’d asked her, she’d have told you he was the light of her life.
Shirley was born on December 6, 1934 to Milton Tarrant and Mary Keasler Tarrant in East Alton, Illinois. She married her high school sweetheart and the love of her life, Daniel McCalley, on May 15, 1953, and they went on to create a family with the addition of their daughter Mitzi McCalley Jacobsen. But her true joy in life came when she became grandma to her only grandchild, Matthew Jacobsen.