09/06/2026
We are mourning the loss of Gloria Steinem, who died yesterday at the age of 92. 💔
For more than half a century, Gloria Steinem helped change the way our country talked about women, equality, power and freedom. She challenged systems that told women to be quieter, smaller and more willing to accept the world as it was and she spent her life imagining and working toward something better.
Her advocacy extended beyond the women’s movement. She stood with LGBTQ+ people, spoke out against discrimination and understood that the struggle for equality is connected and that none of us are truly free when someone else’s dignity or freedom is denied.
But perhaps one of the most beautiful things she understood was that movements cannot belong to one person or one generation.
She once said:
“I’m not giving up my torch, but using it to light the torches of others, because if we each have a torch, there’s a lot more light.”
What a legacy.
The people who change the world eventually leave us. But the light doesn’t have to leave with them.
They light a torch in someone else.
And that person lights another.
And another.
Until there is more light than any one person could ever have made alone.
Thank you, Gloria, for refusing to accept that the world had to remain as you found it. Thank you for the doors you pushed open, the voices you helped amplify and all those torches you lit along the way.
We’ll keep carrying the light. 🩷
