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Robin Morgan, a leading second-wave feminist, radical activist, poet, writer, and editor, died on September 5, 2026, at 85. She served as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine and co-founded the Women’s Media Center alongside Jane Fonda and the activist Gloria Steinmen, who recently passed away.
She played a pivotal role in the modern women’s movement—credited with coining the iconic term “herstory” and popularizing the movement’s clenched-fist symbol. Her death was confirmed by her son and sole survivor, musician Blake Morgan.
Morgan edited the landmark 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful, with contributions from Kate Millett, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Florynce Kennedy, and many more. The New York Public Library named it one of the 100 most influential books of the twentieth century. With the royalties, she created “The Sisterhood is Powerful Fund,” the first American feminist grant-giving organization.
Her follow-up anthology, Sisterhood is Global, included interviews with women around the world, leading her to establish the Sisterhood is Global Institution alongside French activist Simone de Beauvoir. By the time she was in her 80s, Morgan had published more than 20 books—novels, poetry, nonfiction, and essays—on a variety of subjects.
She found her footing during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, when she noticed that most of them were led by men. Morgan organized one of the first protests against the Miss America pageant for its oppression of women.
Morgan’s work, which she believed in so fiercely, sought to challenge male-dominated systems and advance global feminism—a mission that is never over.
Sisterhood Is Global
Celebrated by Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, as “one of the most important human documents of the century,” this collection of essays features women from around the world.
Speaking on issues across government, marriage, motherhood, sexual harassment, and more, these journalists, politicians, and scholars work to unite women in their pursuit of equality.
Saturday's Child
Before Robin Morgan became a bestselling author, poet, and feminist movement leader, she worked as a child actor. During television's golden era, she starred in Mama from age seven to fourteen.
But behind closed doors, she struggled to break away from her mother and come to terms with her absent father.
Moving from child stardom to the actions that labeled her as a temporary terrorist, “Morgan’s compelling self-portrait is that of a strong, complex woman who fights for her ideals” (Booklist).
Going Too Far
Taking readers into the women’s movement, Going Too Far is “a fascinating document of both personal and social history” (Washington Post Book World).
In all aspects of modern feminism, from protesting to writing, Robin Morgan has been known for her strong opinions.
On topics ranging from love to art, she offers her own feminist theories and, in the latter, pivotal chapters, what she terms the “metaphysics of feminism.”
The Demon Lover
A radical, bestselling work of investigative journalism, Robin Morgan probes the roots of terrorism, particularly the ways in which violence has become eroticized.
From her time with US radicals in the 60s and 70s to interviews with Palestinian women in refugee camps, Morgan “raises questions other authors have avoided” to offer “a brilliant critique” (Library Journal).
1963: The Year of the Revolution
Moving from London to the Atlantic, Ariel Level and Robin Morgan come together to document a pivotal twelve months that led to a cultural transformation.
Youth became a force that, for the first time in history, captured the government's attention. In a documentary style, Level and Morgan chronicle some of the period’s most influential thinkers and events.
Monster
Before Robin Morgan became a feminist leader, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry. Monster, her first poetry collection, came out of a pivotal time in her contemporary feminism.
With dynamic lyricism, Morgan creates “a powerful, passionate, angry commentary on modern woman and the society that creates and defines her” (Library Journal).
Lady of the Beasts
Moving between themes of love, morality, hurt, and change, Robin Morgan forges a sense of self.
The four major metaphysical poems demonstrate her talent, as “she commands a wealth of technical resources, so evident in the formal poems, yet spilling over into her free verse” (Poetry).
Featured image: Michelle Frankfurter
