Overview
- Robin Morgan’s death was confirmed by her son Blake Morgan and the Women’s Media Center on Saturday, September 5; no cause was disclosed and her son said she died peacefully in her sleep.
- She helped organize the 1968 Miss America protest and edited the 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful, works that helped define second‑wave feminism and popularize terms and symbols such as “herstory” and the clenched‑fist female icon.
- Morgan served as editor‑in‑chief of Ms. Magazine from 1989 to 1994 and co‑founded the Women’s Media Center in 2005 with Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, using publishing and broadcast platforms to expand women’s visibility.
- In later years she published more than 20 books, hosted a syndicated radio show and produced the Women’s Media Center podcast while living with Parkinson’s disease, and the podcast recently reached its 500th episode.
- The Women’s Media Center and colleagues have issued tributes and signaled they will continue her work, leaving institutional gaps in feminist media leadership and prompting renewed attention to how the movement preserves its history and platforms.