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But she was first and foremost a journalist and a writer who started out, in her own words, as a girl reporter forced to do light, fluffy magazine features, a role she resented.

She did, however, go on to write some serious investigative articles before co-founding Ms Magazine, the first magazine owned and run by women.

Her friend and co-founder of Gloria's Foundation, Amy Richards, who lived with her for a time, spoke to me about what Steinem was most proud of in her career.

While she's

It was about finding a way to profit from blackness and fatness while keeping the underlying systems that punish both completely intact, which is what I've been trying to say throughout this whole video, but we're gonna talk about it more in depth later.

Then Miss Magazine, which is like a feminist magazine, I think it started like 19 something.

Anyways, they make a lot of good stuff there, so definitely check them out.

They have some good articles, but they made a parallel point to

So during the 1960s to 70s, people were really opening their eyes and being more vocal about how fat people were being treated in the country.

And people were starting to take a stand against fatphobia.

Miss Magazine, which I talked about earlier, and you remember because you paid attention, period, but they put it plainly in their history of fat liberation.

They pointed out that there was no accident that fat acceptance, second wave feminism, and queer rights all came up at the same time.

She was a tremendous figure for change, feminist advocacy and resistance, and intellectual exploration of the ways sex and gender permeate our lives, sometimes with tremendously unjust consequences.

I had the tremendous honor of interviewing her for Y Radio almost 10 years ago, along with Ms. Magazine's editor Suzanne Braun-Levine.

I wanted to repost the episode to our feed in part because I don't think my students even know who she is or what she accomplished.

I believe it is imperative that we take the opportunity to reflect on what Gloria Steinem accomplished for all of us and what many feel is being undone as we speak.

I can think of few guests more suitable for the 100th episode of Why Radio than Gloria Steinem and Suzanne Braun-Levine.

They and their feminist cohorts emphasized that everyday sexism was built on ideology as much as habit, creating a space for philosophy in the public consciousness.

Gloria and Suzanne's creation, Ms.

Magazine, prepared the ground for blogs, college courses and television shows we have today.

in perfection.

Ms. Gloria Steinem.

It is hard to...

So much of what she championed, what she was a tireless and articulate and funny spokesperson for and true advocate and made a change and... you know, within government, within society, within celebrity, within the media, it's hard to quantify it because it's so gigantic.

My mother wasn't able to get a credit card until 1974.

She had three kids that she was raising on her own without credit cards.

And it was like, she also, the Me Too movement, sexual harassment was introduced in Ms.

Magazine.

She also championed abortion rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.

She co-founded Miss Magazine and spent her life advocating for gender equality, racial justice, LGBTQ plus rights, and women's political and economic power.

Her influence on the feminist movement and on generations of women who came after her is almost impossible to overstate, and she will be tremendously missed.

I actually just realized that we lived on the same block, actually on the same street.

Yes, let's imagine her riding that purple Harley now, with Dolly Parton in the sidecar.

The trailblazing feminist, political activist and organizer, journalist, and founder of the influential Ms.

Magazine, Gloria Steinem, died last week at age 92, after a very big life, changing lives.

Gloria joined me in 2015 at the Sydney Writers Festival on Gadigal country to chat about her memoir, My Life on the Road, and with two other illustrious guests, to explore how travel can be truly transformative.

It's right up there with life-threatening emergencies and truly mutual sex as a way of being fully alive in the present." Please welcome Gloria Steinem.

[audience applauding] Activist, organizer, lecturer, journalist.

How do we sum her up? Founder of Ms.

Magazine, winner of the Presidential Medal for Freedom, please welcome Ali Cobby Eckermann.

Last week, the women's movement lost an absolute legend, the one and only Gloria Steinem, who died on Wednesday at 92 in her home in New York City yesterday.

She became a feminist icon partly through co-founding Ms.

Magazine in 1971 and helping build organizations like the National Women's Political Caucus and the Women's Media Center to champion gender equality, reproductive rights, and women's representation in media and politics.

Her death also brought attention to some controversies in her career, namely that in the late 1950s and early 60s, she led the Independent Research Service, an organization later revealed to be funded by the CIA.

You know, let me say up front that I teach at Rutgers where we founded the Gloria Steinem Initiative on Feminism, Media, and Culture.

I helped to hire the first chair for the Gloria Steinem Chair at Rutgers.

Also, the RAGE Lab that I am the principal investigator of is partially founded by the Ms.

Foundation for Women, which Gloria Steinem helped to found.