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[TIME @TIME]

Belinda Luscombe, a TIME editor at large, explores Gloria Steinem's long history with this magazine: https://t.co/BcBT4gutoL

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who helped found this magazine before she became the public face of the American women’s movement, died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92. Her foundation announced the news Thursday morning, saying she passed away peacefully, surrounded by some of the many who loved her.

Of all the people whose talent developed here in the early years of ‘New York,’ Steinem stood apart. Steinem certainly built a legacy as a writer, but her life, of course, took another direction, that of an activist. What remains particularly fascinating is seeing her rising consciousness appear in our own pages.

Clay Felker, our founding editor, was known for finding up-and-coming writers. At the start of 1968, as Felker attempted to get ‘New York’ off the ground, his attack team included a pair of show-horse writers he’d known from his time at ‘Esquire’ and the ‘Herald Tribune’: Tom Wolfe and Gloria Steinem.

The three of them went to, as Steinem later said, “countless lunches that we referred to as tap-dancing for rich people.” They were pitching, she explained, “the essence of New York. When you come right down to it, the New York ‘Times’ is also national, and certainly ‘The New Yorker’ is. Our hearts were in the writing and the spirit of New York.” The first issue appeared that spring, dated April 8, 1968. Four small and discreet bylines appeared on the cover, Wolfe’s and Steinem’s among them.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

“The first time I saw Steinem in person was on the street in Washington, D.C, at the 2004 March for Women’s Lives,” writes Rebecca Traister. “Watching her walk down a sidewalk was like watching a movie star: At 70, she still shone, was glossy; light reflected off her well.

That day, more than two decades ago, just as we were beginning to come out of a decadeslong anti-feminist deep freeze into a pop-feminist thaw, was the first time in my life I’d seen young women — teens, 20-somethings, women who were my peers — react to an older woman, *a feminist,* with adulation.”

Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday at the age of 92 in her home in Manhattan. A journalist, author, and activist, Steinem lived a life spanning decades of both explosive progress and violent regress for American women.

“Steinem was the perfect popularizer,” writes Rebecca Traister. “Her great contribution to the Second Wave of feminism was communicative facility: She could make spiky, roiling, uncomfortable, often messy ideas around gender, race, class, equality, and liberation sound smooth and snappy, attractive and funny. She was a talented, driven, and powerfully charismatic emblem for a movement that was always more complicated and sometimes more radical than she herself was. Her life, her work, and her contradictions together provide a remarkable illustration of the political and social disruption mainstream America is willing to tolerate, occasionally celebrate, and also revile.”

Steinem’s allure was undoubtedly a powerful weapon for the women’s movement by complicating one of the most base and potent anti-feminist arguments: that women clamoring for liberation were only doing so because no man wanted them. Steinem was a walking repudiation of that claim. “But that she had to exist in order to effectively fight against it was proof of how powerfully women’s worth was weighed in relationship to their traditional appeals to men,” writes Traister.

Read Traister’s full tribute to the feminist icon: https://t.co/w1kM1aHrV6

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

To most of the world, of course, Gloria Steinem is a defining public face of feminism, but we at ‘New York’ Magazine also think of her as one of our own. Starting in our very first issue, she became a contributing editor and columnist, steadily covering city and national politics from a generally leftist perspective. She wrote about Bella Abzug and John Lindsay, about Teddy Kennedy and Ralph Nader, about Vietnam and abortion rights. You can, reading her columns, almost chart her gradual progression from columnist to activist. In the fall of 1971, she left us to co-found ‘Ms.’, which launched with a 32-page insert in the center of ‘New York’s year-end double issue.

Today, we’re republishing 15 of her old stories from our archives, most of them resurfaced for the first time. Some are revelatory; others are just interesting snapshots of their time, including a wild look at “new love styles” that we ran for Valentine’s Day 1970. Revisit them here: https://t.co/9UsNxlEszp

[Financial Times @FT]

Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist, has died aged 92. She 'passed away peacefully [on Wednesday] at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her', according to a post on her Instagram account published on Thursday https://t.co/7K8orxz5uq

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Civil rights activist and journalist Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at age 92, according to her official Instagram page.

Steinem "passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her," the post read. "Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end." https://t.co/dn7viS39fk

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[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Civil rights activist and journalist Gloria Steinem died Wednesday. Look back at her career in the spotlight. Click the link below to see all of the photos ⬇️

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[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Gloria Steinem, longtime symbol of the women’s movement who spent more than six decades as a journalist and activist, has died. She was 92.

Read more: https://t.co/lJwXgUnLIt

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: Gloria Steinem, celebrated author and activist who became one of the most influential voices behind the women’s movement through the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st, died at her home in New York City.

She was 92. https://t.co/v4YgTVutcG

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Gloria Steinem, pioneering feminist, founder of 'Ms. Magazine,' and the unflagging force behind the Equal Rights Amendment, has died at the age of 92.

Read: https://t.co/ETIAPrIbKV

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem dies at 92 https://t.co/TwDdDMA4jh

[Variety @Variety]

Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who became the public face of the American women’s movement and helped launch Ms. magazine, died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92. https://t.co/NUmAaRMcOX

[CNN @CNN]

Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and founder of Ms. Magazine, has died at 92 https://t.co/G5RZ0erZRr

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and founder of Ms. Magazine, has died at 92 https://t.co/cKHAnvdBWt

[TMZ @TMZ]

Gloria Steinem, the famous feminist activist and writer, has died at 92 💔🕊️ https://t.co/cpT0DXJDyv

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

Gloria Steinem was a fearless trailblazer who transformed the fight for equality in America and inspired generations of women to know their power.

Her voice, courage and relentless advocacy helped break down barriers and open doors once firmly closed to women.

May it be a comfort to all of us who loved Gloria that her extraordinary legacy will live on in every generation that carries her fight forward.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Gloria Steinem, the pioneering journalist and activist who became one of the most influential figures in the modern feminist movement, has died at 92. Steinem died peacefully Wednesday at her home in New York City surrounded by loved ones, according to a statement on her official Instagram account.

Over decades of activism, she championed causes including reproductive rights, domestic violence prevention and gender equality in the workplace.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Feminist trailblazer and journalist Gloria Steinem dies in New York at the age of 92 https://t.co/gJDScUSMmR

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, the potent voice of the U.S. women’s movement and a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92. https://t.co/ok97z6S8K0