Overview
- The Gloria Steinem Foundation announced that Steinem died peacefully at her New York home on Wednesday, September 2, and the post was shared on her official Instagram account on Thursday.
- The foundation did not disclose a cause of death and asked people to honor her by lighting candles or making donations to Gloria’s Foundation instead of sending flowers.
- Leaders, writers, artists and celebrities including Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden and Meghan Markle issued public tributes that praised Steinem’s decades of activism and influence.
- Steinem helped build the modern women’s movement through journalism and institution building, including her 1963 Playboy Club exposé, co-founding Ms. magazine and the National Women’s Political Caucus, and she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Her final projects — regular in‑home Talking Circles, a brownstone intended as a center for social justice, archived papers and a memoir, An Unexpected Life, due Sept. 22 — are being positioned by her foundation as tools to keep her organizing work alive.