09/03/2026
Gloria Steinem, feminist organizer, writer, journalist, and co-founder of Ms. magazine, has died at 92.
For more than six decades, Steinem helped build the infrastructure of the modern feminist movement: creating spaces for women’s voices in media, organizing for reproductive freedom and political representation, and bringing feminist ideas into public conversation. She was also a reminder that activism is not separate from culture and history—it shapes both.
Her work is part of a much larger feminist history: one built not only by its most recognizable figures, but by the writers, artists, organizers, archivists, and communities whose work has too often been overlooked or lost.
At TFI, we preserve that history because it remains relevant to the work of feminism today. Steinem’s legacy is not simply something to look back on. It is part of the record of a movement that continues to change, challenge, and build. We honor her by remembering the work, and by continuing to preserve the history of those who made it possible.
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1 & 2: Gloria Steinem, supersisters No. 32, 1978.
3: Gloria Steinem biography from Ms. Magazine, 1978.
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