Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices of the U.S. women\u2019s movement and a fierce advocate for feminist causes throughout her life, has died. She was 92.<\/p>\n
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 centers, at rallies and marches.<\/p>\n
She died Wednesday at her home in New York City, according to her and her foundation\u2019s social media pages.
\u201cYou can\u2019t do it on the phone or on the web,\u201d she told The Associated Press in a 2015 interview. \u201cYou have to be there with all five senses. It should be obvious that people can\u2019t empathize with each other unless we\u2019re in same room.\u201d<\/p>\n
She began her career as a journalist, notably one who reported, in 1963, on degrading conditions in Hugh Hefner\u2019s Playboy empire, an undercover assignment she came to later regret. She credits a meeting six years later, where women spoke out boldly in favor of abortion rights, with changing her career path. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat speak-out was the beginning of activism for me,\u201d 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. \u201cEither our control over our own bodies is equal, regardless of sex or race, or we\u2019re not living in a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-336965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}