Gloria Steinem Death: The co-founder of one of the most well-known feminist publications, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, has passed away, according to a funeral home in Georgia and Gloria Steinem, a friend and lifelong colleague of Dorothy Pitman Hughes.
According to Sconiers Funeral Home, Hughes, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, passed away on December 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the age of 84. The obituary stated that Hughes “died away peacefully” at the house of her daughter and son-in-law, Delethia and Jonas Malmsten.
According to the funeral home, Hughes, born in 1938 in Lumpkin, Georgia, eventually relocated to New York at 19, where she started working as a nightclub singer and a house cleaner.
Hughes “formed a multiracial cooperative daycare center” by the late 1960s, which caught Steinem’s eye and led to her writing a story about the company in New York Magazine. Steinem would later co-found Ms. Magazine. The obituary noted that Steinem and Hughes soon started publicly discussing the Women’s Movement.
Steinem paid tribute to her buddy this week in a verified Instagram post. Steinem remarked, “I have been fortunate to call Dorothy a friend and lifelong co-conspirator. “She encouraged me to give public speeches, and we spent years touring the nation together.
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“She left the world in a better place than she found it because of her dedication to children’s welfare, racial fairness, and economic liberation,” she continued. The obituary stated that Dorothy inspired Gloria to create Ms. Magazine, a female-operated media outlet and that their trips “attracted tremendous media excitement.”
According to its website, Ms. Magazine, first published as a “sample insert in New York magazine” in the 1970s, quickly rose to prominence as a “landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism.” Additionally, Ms. Magazine describes itself as “more than a magazine” and “a movement.”
The Women’s Action Alliance, a groundbreaking national information center specializing in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, was formed by Hughes and Steinem in 1971, according to the obituary. According to the obituary, Hughes is survived by three children and two grandchildren.