Overview
- The Gloria Steinem Foundation confirmed she died peacefully at her New York home on Wednesday, Sept. 2, and asked that gifts be made to the foundation in lieu of flowers.
- The foundation said Steinem’s long-running in‑person gatherings called Talking Circles will continue and that the brownstone where she hosted them will be stewarded as a center for social justice work.
- Her final memoir, An Unexpected Life, is due for release later in September 2026 and will be published posthumously.
- News outlets and public figures including Hillary Clinton, Joe and Jill Biden, Meghan Markle and many writers and artists offered tributes that highlighted Steinem’s role founding Ms. magazine and organizations that advanced reproductive rights, workplace equality and women’s political participation.
- Steinem’s death shifts focus to how her institutions and archives will carry forward her organizing model and mentorship of younger activists, and to planned memorials and the foundation’s role in shaping her lasting public legacy.