🔴 Gloria Steinem, feminist trailblazer and award-winning journalist, dies at 92
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Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, at the age 92, her foundation said in an Instagram post on Thursday.
By: FRANCE 24 Gloria Steinem attends the Ms. Foundation's Women of Vision Awards in New York on May 16, 2023. © Evan Agostini, Invision via AP Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices of the US women’s movement and a fierce advocate for feminist causes throughout her life, has died. She was 92.
With her trademark streaked hair parted down the middle and large aviator glasses, Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, was a hugely recognizable presence wherever she went. And she went everywhere: Much of her life as an advocate was spent on the road, speaking at college campuses and community centres, at rallies and marches.
She died Wednesday at her home in New York City , according to her foundation’s social media pages.
“You can’t do it on the phone or on the web,” she told The Associated Press in a 2015 interview. “You have to be there with all five senses. It should be obvious that people can’t empathize with each other unless we’re in the same room.”
Steinem began her career as a journalist, notably one who reported, in 1963, on degrading conditions in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire, an undercover assignment she came to later regret. She credits a meeting six years later, where women spoke out boldly in favour of abortion rights, with changing her career path.
“That speak-out was the beginning of activism for me,” Steinem, who had undergone a secret illegal abortion herself at age 22, told The AP in an email in 2022, reflecting on the reversal of Roe v. Wade . “Either our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we’re not living in a democracy.”
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