Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan began her career as a child actor and model, performing on stage, TV, and radio. In 1967, while studying at Columbia University, she co­founded the group New York Radical Women, which protested the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City the following year, denouncing “the degrading mindless-boob-girlie symbol.” The protesters threw beauty products into a “freedom trash can” in a symbolic gesture of liberation that gave rise to the myth of a ceremonial bra-burning; in fact Atlantic City police officers would not permit them to set fire to the receptacle. Morgan is the author of many books; has edited several anthologies, including Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement; and worked at Ms. Magazine for twenty years.